Sentences with phrase «basic human tendency»

I feel linemakers are taking advantage of the basic human tendency of overreacting to recent performances.

It's easy to root for winners and high - scoring games, but this basic human tendency can easily be exploited by oddsmakers.

The drive for power — individual or collective — emerges as the basic human tendency.

What we're talking about are basic human tendencies that derive from fundamental attribute of our psychology and our cognitive processing.

Some of the most common relationship problems that every couple may encounter at one time or another include all of the basic human tendencies.

Not exact matches

Then they tested their «impulsive approach tendencies» toward men (that is, their latent attraction to them) in a task that involved tapping keyboard keys rapidly, to move an on - screen manikin - a basic drawing of a human figure - as quickly as possible in a specified direction.

What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.

It saw the publication of Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society, which contains basic diagnoses of tendencies in human history that are still true: One can not escape from sin by refusing to relate oneself to movements that seek to develop the power of self - defense among the powerless.

Not that Miller hasn't inserted a few clues beforehand, or that the message (you can't really help others, on an individual or group basis, unless you learn to accept yourself first) IS N'T valuable or valid... but Mumble's hero's journey to to convince us humans to quit depriving them of all the fish necessary for their sustenance is flawed from a basic storytelling rather than a thematic viewpoint; it has a tendency to zigzag from point A to point Q while skipping Points B through P altogether.

«The modern American tendency to shop infrequently is at odds with basic human abilities to predict future food consumption needs,» was the author's conclusion.

The study found that the BTID approach makes three basic assumptions about human behavior and consumers» ability to identify and manage risk that are at odds with the observed financial behavior and tendencies of most people.

The study found that the BTID approach makes three basic assumptions about human behavior and consumers» ability to identify and manage risk that are at odds with the observed financial behavior and tendencies of most people.

Topics include (1) research design: elements of the research process, types of designs, program evaluation; (2) ethical considerations of research: informed consent, research with diverse and vulnerable populations, research with children, human subjects review; (3) basic measurement concepts: validity, reliability, norms, score interpretation; (4) basic statistical concepts: frequency distributions, central tendency, measures of variability, correlation.

Topics include (1) elements of the research process; (2) types of designs, program evaluation; (3) ethical considerations of research: informed consent, research with diverse and vulnerable populations, research with children, human subjects review; (4) basic measurement concepts: validity, reliability, norms, score interpretation; and (5) basic statistical concepts: frequency distributions, central tendency, measures of variability, correlation, normal curve, hypothesis testing, significance tests.