Sentences with phrase «attributing human traits»

We psychicalists are accused of attributing human traits to the subhuman, yes, even to the inanimate.
People have a tendency to attribute human traits to disasters, just like they attribute human traits to animals.

Not exact matches

The researchers measured heritability — the amount of variation in a characteristic that can be attributed to genes — for a wide variety of human traits including blood pressure, the structure of the eyeball and mental or behavioral disorders.
When does altruism become a purely economic community feature [5] at risk to be exploited by society at large, how can we sustain the one character trait that is governed by a projection of the basic human attribute: the need to help another human being.
Like humans, dogs are individuals, each having their own traits and attributes.
In 2013, researchers from the University of Cambridge published a paper entitled «Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behaviour» in the journal PNAS.
The IBI scale is based on implicit beliefs about human attributes, specifically intelligence, and assesses whether one believes that intelligence is a trait - like fixed attribute that can not be changed (i.e., entity theory), or is malleable and can be improved (i.e., incremental theory).
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