Sentences with phrase «as a survival mechanism»

In the wild, animals tend to hide signs of illness or weakness as a survival mechanism.

Humans are wired to be the negative as a survival mechanism.

A child who has a «primal wound» rejects future attempts from mother figures to attach emotionally as a survival mechanism.

altruism, sympathy, and empathy exist within the human brain as a survival mechanism for ourselves and ultimately our tribe.

Many animals will instinctively hide their pain as a survival mechanism which in the past led to incorrect assumptions about the ability of dogs and cats to feel pain.

Behaviors that evolved as survival mechanisms to ensure that an animal feeds itself become inconvenient and potentially detrimental side effects in industrialized human populations where cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity, rather than starvation, pose greater risks to long - term survival.

They learn to detach as a survival mechanism when their needs aren't meant.

Cognitive dissonance (except when required as a survival mechanism in cases of severe trauma) is a sign of mental illness.

Thus, autophagy is generally thought of as a survival mechanism.

She has learned to lie as a survival mechanism, to give hope in the face of despair just to make people «better.»

Recent studies have shown that BRCA1 / 2 - deficient tumors upregulate Polθ - mediated alternative end - joining (alt - EJ) repair as a survival mechanism.

The HIV virus may also employ noise as a survival mechanism.

The rationale is that chemotherapy and immunotherapy can induce autophagy in tumor cells, which in turn is used by tumor cells as a survival mechanism to resist pharmaceutical invention.

When humans experience stress the body automatically diverts energy, blood, enzymes and oxygen to other areas of the body as a survival mechanism.; thus leaving some areas of the body deprived and under pressure which inevitably effects digestion.

Stress developed as a survival mechanism to ensure we were able to outrun that saber - toothed tiger and proliferate the species.

Science tells us that negative experiences have much more influence than positive experiences as a survival mechanism.

It's said they developed the hairlike metallic whiskers which grow from the top of their heads as a survival mechanism for the hostile volcanic environment.

On one level, if I can flip things around even more, Faux Faux (Lobby Life) engages as a cubist - like still life, but in the future tense, as in: In the future plants will uproot from fertile ground as a survival mechanism.

Drawing parallels between this book and the difficulties inherent in the search of the «transchild» to find suitable role models within a traditional familial structure «My Model / MySelf» becomes about a journey to escape traditional gender roles through a capitalist phantasm of self - creation as a survival mechanism.

This issue is caused by the Emergency Difficulty Adjustment (EDA) algorithm, which has been implemented into BCH as a survival mechanism «by adjusting difficulty downward if it has only a small proportion of the hash rate.»

When we understand PTSD as a survival mechanism and a brain impairment of sorts, it's a bit easier to also understand reactive attachment disorder.

This combination of reactions to stress is also known as the «fight - or - flight» response because it evolved as a survival mechanism, enabling people and other mammals to react quickly to life - threatening situations.

To legalize prostitution would condone it as a survival mechanism for women who have no education or job skills, and whose self - esteem is minimal because of a life of abuse.

As a survival mechanism, LeDoux's low road made perfect sense.

Whenever I diet down, my thyroid function seems to slow down (as a survival mechanism) thereby slowing metabolism thereby resulting in excess plasma LDL.

Many dogs will instinctively hide their pain as a survival mechanism, which, in the past, lead to incorrect assumptions about the ability of dogs to feel pain.

As a survival mechanism, biology has wired us to form bonds when we feel our needs are cared about.