Sentences with phrase «at human behavior»

Why do you think few scientists have looked at human behavior through the lens of evolution and natural selection?

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That lifelong fascination with human behavior has informed his work with the world's largest corporations, first at Amherst Consulting Group, which he founded in 1983 and sold in 1999, and more recently with 180 Partners.

First, managers must have a basic understanding of human behavior, and how experiencing positive emotions is at the root of human motivation — we are wired for it.

Indeed, up to 95 % of human behavior happens at a subconscious level, leading to «gut decisions» which is the most natural way to make a decision.

«Everyone looks at the past and recognizes flawed human beliefs and behaviors, but no one realizes future generations will do the same with us,» investor Chuck Gafvert points out.

Howard Gardner, an accomplished author of several books on leadership and human behavior has written at length about emotional intelligence and leadership communication.

He chairs the economics department at Harvard University and he leads the university's Foundations of Human Behavior initiative.

The business consultants at Booz Allen Hamilton — Joyce Doria, Horacio Rozanski and Ed Cohen — made their case for curriculum reform and suggested courses in psychology, economics and human behavior.

Her allegations get at a core concern about the Trump presidency: that he may have used (indeed, may still be using) his money and power to make sure the ordinary rules of human behavior don't apply to him.

This isn't a «distraction,» but gets right at core concerns about Trump and his ability to govern — the Daniels story is one of many warnings that suggest Trump believes that laws and policies that limit the behavior of ordinary humans simply don't apply to him.

Without diving into wether or not animals have souls (which I don't believe) or are even self aware (which I'm also fairly certain they are not), why should I compare instint, non-ceribrial behavior (at best purely sexual) to human?

I don't know what you think you're proving here, but human beings are very good at compartmentalizing, which allows them to embrace contradictory attitudes and behaviors.

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

I also do not want to sound like an expert in human behavior but could you ask your partners aunt who or what influenced her the most at an early age?

You will find many social behaviors are not unique to humans at all, there are parallels throughout the animal, and insect kingdooms.

This insight explains the vehemence of his attack upon the German quest for the historical Jesus, just as it illuminates his behavior» during his first years at Lambaréné, when he ransacked the intellectual storehouses of the world's religions in order to find some way to conceive of an affirmation of the world that was not merely mindless hedonism, a way that could motivate a powerful urge toward human betterment, toward perfection within the structures of natural existence.

Us pagans believe we are endowed with reason which allows us to judge whether or not someone can be trusted to deliver on their promises, if they are dangerous, or harmful — by watching their behavior - We judge — not some other being upstairs - Obama has shown his lack of human compassion and untruthfulness for 4 years, we have seen that his God is re-election money and that is at who's feet he worships.

Cultural studies seek to understand human behavior and to interpret its significance, to look at TV, for example, and to diagnose its human meanings.

Economists at their best know that human behavior in markets is only one aspect of human behavior.

De Waal and colleagues have been testing human intuition concerning the behavior of chimps at the Arnheim Zoo since 1976.

Moore proposes instead that if we accept Whitehead's conviction that as creativity operates in living things it aims at the enhancement of life, we then will interpret human behavior in terms of the will - to - life.

Human nature, in the sense of man's basic physical, emotional, impulsive and intellectual constitution, somehow moral at the core, seemed plainly more fundamental than any particular sort of human behavior, even economic; and human nature itself emerges in a world order far more ancient and more fundamental sHuman nature, in the sense of man's basic physical, emotional, impulsive and intellectual constitution, somehow moral at the core, seemed plainly more fundamental than any particular sort of human behavior, even economic; and human nature itself emerges in a world order far more ancient and more fundamental shuman behavior, even economic; and human nature itself emerges in a world order far more ancient and more fundamental shuman nature itself emerges in a world order far more ancient and more fundamental still.

If you search the Coursera website on «evolution», you will see that «Evolution: A Course for Educators» taught by instructors from the American Museum of Natural History» and «Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)» taught by professors at the University of Maryland both start in June.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

Or is the way of Ivan and his theological rebellion one of holding to God for fear of annihilation, but hating him and his world, and with equal passion asserting the reality of a human freedom that he denies by his quixotic behavior at the time of the trial?

The 10 percent claim goes back to Alfred Kinsey's 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, in which it is stated that «10 percent of the males are more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55.»

We still need his genius to see that human behavior is complex, that demonic possibilities are built into church and social structures, that human pride and spiritual arrogance rise to new heights precisely at the point where they are closest to the Kingdom of God, and that advance brings vulnerability to new temptations.

At the same time many of them are oppressed by the feeling that theological study does not sufficiently consider the changes that have taken place in human thought and behavior in the course of a revolutionary century.

The exclusion of the Christian God is clearest in economics at the point of limiting human behavior to rational behavior and defining that as self - interested behavior.

In addition to casting a pall over some very human and humanizing behavior, says Klein, the religious leaders seem to be at a loss about the significance of Christmas once commercialism has been removed.

At least among those untutored in the rarefied mountain air of meta «ethical theory, ethics usually denotes that range of human behavior that can be subsumed under the rubric of judgments about inherent good and evil.

E. Mansell Pattison, M.D. is Associate Professor - in - residence, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California at Irvine, California.

Through his return to a strong Augustinian view of humanity, Reinhold Niebuhr abandoned any effort to forge loving relations among humans through collective goodwill in favor of advancing justice at the level of human behavior through the use of power.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

So are the miracle wheat and rice of the Green Revolution, the technology of behavior modification proposed by B. F. Skinner, 1 and the computerized model of the global ecology produced by the authors of The Limits to Growth.2 This kind of reasoning operates within the limits of what is possible as defined by (1) the available material and human resources, (2) the laws of nature, and (3) the state of knowledge at the time.

But I believe it was hinted at in the words of a young Cambridge undergraduate who told me that what he and most of his friends aimed at in their sexual behavior were three things: permissiveness, within the range of social decency and acceptance; affection, by which he meant genuine caring and the beginning of real love; and responsibility, which he defined as readiness to stand up and take the consequences for any and every sort of human contact.

Some use of subjective terms may be warranted in describing the behavior of human beings and perhaps of higher animals to avoid ponderous circumlocutions, but should be avoided in attempts at the most precise formulations.

Sociobiology seeks to explain human ethical intuitions in terms of inherited patterns of behavior favoring the propagation of at least some of an individual's genes.

The authors looked at more than 2,500 books, articles, reports, and other documents in an attempt to derive an empirically based and comprehensive statement of the effects of television on human behavior.

But if we are to find a religious system which can not be outdated or outgrown, from which the acids of modernity can only remove accretions and encrustations, a religion which properly practiced produces the highest forms of human behavior, and offers both supernatural pattern and spiritual power beyond human endeavor, then I believe we shall have to take a fresh look at Christianity.

Setting a higher standard for human behavior (including what our governments do), though we may never reach that standard, at least there should be a goal set.

Just choosing the literal text is a process fraught with the full range of human behavior at its worst: sharp personal disagreement, vindictive attacks, ecclesiastical schism, and war — all this, before any attempt to translate the sacred writings into a contemporary language.

To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.

It goes against normal human behavior to ignore the attempts at conversational initiation by anyone.

Dr. Catherine E. Mogil is an assistant clinical professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.

Dr. Sandhu then pursued training in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles, Neuropsychiatric Institute (now named the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior).

To arrive at a universal truth regarding human development and behavior, Bowlby felt it was necessary to utilize several fields of scientific inquiry rather than rely on existing theories of psychoanalysis alone.

Dr. Jeanne Stolzer, Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA, whose research is known worldwide as an intelligent challenge to the current Western medical model that seeks to pathologize normal human behaviors, including breastfeeding, too, shares her beginnings in LLL.

If I fucked up at work and my boss seriously went off on me, or if she told me I had to be separated from everyone else in the building for a while and told me where to go sit and that she would let me know when I could return and interact with other people, if she told me I had to accumulate a certain amount of «good» days or actions before I could get paid, if she had a certain set of rules and standards that applied to all the employees behavior but not to her own, and if she gave me the impression that she valued me as a human being only when I was following all the rules, I'm pretty sure I would tell her to go fuck herself.