Sentences with word «asocial»

The syndrome only strikes girls and is characterized by asocial behavior and cognitive deficits.

B: In 20 years, my field has gone from thinking of bacteria as asocial recluses to seeing them as at least being trilingual.

M Squillace, L Dodero, M Federici, S Migliarini, F Errico, F Napolitano, P Krashia, A Di Maio, A Galbusera, A Bifone, ML Scattoni, M Pasqualetti, NB Mercuri, A Usiello, A Gozzi * Dysfunctional dopaminerig neurotransmission in asocial BTBR mice (2014) Translational Psychiatry, 4 (8) e427 3.

Titled «Asocial Media» the discussion will address how we can productively engage with fake news, Facebook and troll culture.

For example, four - month - olds who show high levels of motor activity and distress, called high - reactive, are likely to become inhibited to the unfamiliar at 1 - 2 years old and report more unrealistic worries and more frequent bouts of depression at age 18, whereas low - reactive infants are likely to become uninhibited to the unfamiliar in the second year and are at a slightly higher risk for asocial behaviour at age 18.

The researchers found that the mushroom bodies were larger in queen sweat bees than they were in either worker bees or asocial bees.

For Locke, we are by nature free to invent and consent to various social institutions — such as the family and government — to satisfy our needs as emotionally free or asocial individuals.

For example, four - month - olds who show high levels of motor activity and distress, called high - reactive, are likely to become inhibited to the unfamiliar at 1 - 2 years old and report more unrealistic worries and more frequent bouts of depression at age 18, whereas low - reactive infants are likely to become uninhibited to the unfamiliar in the second year and are at a slightly higher risk for asocial behaviour at age 18.

Among Irish and Canadian male alcoholics, the Irish drank more for asocial reasons (e.g., tranquilization, detachment, self - absorption), while Canadians drank more for social and sexual enhancement (Teahan, 1988).

Instead, he followed the pattern of the modern natural right reasoning of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean - Jacques Rousseau, which assumed that human beings were naturally asocial and amoral, and only became social and moral historically.

Tocqueville employs this insight to describe the emotional detachment that comes from the modern, democratic erosion of the social ties that have aristocratically or traditionally bound people to each other: Individualism, Tocqueville explains, is the «heart disease» that causes apathetic, asocial immersion in the present.

Alcoholics of Sidney's type can be recognized readily from their grossly asocial behavior.

And so questions loom: How could asocial invertebrates with short life spans develop signs of intelligence?

Aidan's lone brother, Noah (Josh Gad), isn't much comfort: He's an awkward, asocial nerd who hasn't spoken to Gabe in more than a year, and makes no move to do so even when Aidan lays out their father's prognosis.

In the comic book, he's a walk - on, the sad - sack victim of the girls» personal - ads prank, but Zwigoff, with cowriter Clowes's assistance and blessing, expanded Seymour's passing, passive role to a pivotal degree — very much along the lines of Zwigoff's documentary portrait of his friend R. Crumb, with a whole panoply of asocial misanthropy introduced, along with blues connoisseurship, record collecting, and cartooning.

When Kate's partying spirals into hard - core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something's got to give.

Cats, now the most popular pet in Europe and North America, were once described as asocial animals, but this is no longer regarded as true.

Puppies must have frequent, positive social experiences with all types of animals and people during the first three or four months of life to prevent asocial behavior, fear, and biting.

One of the principle knocks against Facebook games is that, even though the games are called social games, the games to be found there are typically profoundly asocial.

The badges» inverted triangle shapes designated people as so - called asocial elements, namely gay men, prostitutes and gypsies.

This kind of simultaneously social / asocial opening is a growing trend: amassing a group of people in a physical location to then retreat into the isolated world of their personal devices.

This is why at The Edmonton Community Legal Center we have a multi-disciplinary team that includes an immigration lawyer, a registered immigration consultant, asocial benefits advocate, and a family law client liaison who connect clients with the various social services they need.

Rather than funding one - off News Feed videos or asocial original programming, Facebook could funnel money toward content creators who make Shows with mystery or subjective narratives that will develop surrounding communities the way Lost did.

Identification of Aggressive and Asocial Victims and the Stability of Their Peer Victimization

Panel: «Asocial Media» with Ed Fornieles (artist, Canada), Constant Dullaart (artist, Germany) and Angela Nagle (writer, Ireland) at Frieze London, Sunday, October 8 at 12:30 pm.

These cat cams have debunked a few myths including ones that depict cats as asocial and solitary animals.

William Wcislo of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama, and his colleagues dissected the brains of sweat bee queens, workers and asocial individuals and measured the size of an area called the mushroom bodies.

But even without genetic tinkering, the fish already show certain «symptoms» of the diseases, such as sleeplessness, hyperactivity, and asocial behavior.

Regarded as «the cuckoo», Lonie never quite fitted in; plain and asocial, she found it impossible to conform to the expected image of a late nineteenth century woman.

The study shows that these genes are more widely conserved between honey bees and mammals, compared to either honey bees and asocial insects, or honey bees and asocial vertebrates.

It's not clear why these asocial bees are tolerated by the rest of the hive.

«Octopuses shed their asocial reputation.»

The researchers found that without interferon gamma, signals in a brain region called the prefrontal cortex run rampant, and mice tend to be asocial.

But they have quite a bit in common: he's an asocial orphan, and she's an outcast in her own family.

But in 2016, at the climax of the United States election — of this election, in these times — Inferno opts to menace us with an asocial Silicon Valley businessman (played by Ben Foster) whose views on humans are just a hair to the right of some actual Silicon Valley CEOs and venture capitalists.

To the egoistic and asocial being that has just been born, [society] must, as rapidly as possible, add another, capable of leading a moral and social life.

Thomas Burchfield presents The Asocial Networks # 1: 15 Years of Online Writing posted at Thomas Burchfield: A Curious Man, saying, «Some thoughts on my experience with Twitter and its relation to my experiences in independent publishing.»

Puppies that are left in their kennels with little to no human interaction will usually end up fearful, shy, aggressive, asocial and unfriendly.

While cats are far less social than dogs, to think of cats as asocial is wrong.

She may be bossy and confident, bossy and insecure, timid, mellow, asocial, anti-social, terrified, or some combination of these traits.

If they are asocial, uninterested or aggressive then you are dealing with fear.

«As well as making good friends online, 81 per cent of gamers play with real - life friends and family, suggesting MMORPGs are by no means an asocial activity, nor are the players socially introverted,» said Griffiths.

In this asocial world, one's identity is not formed through a process of socialization but by computer - generated «mind exercises.»

In the American post-war age of mass production and reproduction, the hard drinking, asocial, and irascible Pollock and his artistic output marks high culture's fetishizing of the unique and the original over the multiple.

His social role is asocial; his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.