Sentences with phrase «by psychological biases»

He claims that the nature of a country's political system — specifically, whether it is a democracy or a dictatorship — is determined by psychological biases triggered by the threat of disease (See «Genes, germs and the origins of politics»).

Not exact matches

Inexperienced investors often fail to make wise investments because they are too influenced by psychological and sociological «biases» rather than economic fundamentals.

Published Dec. 21 in the journal Psychological Science, the research found that children can «catch» social bias by seeing negative signals expressed by adults and are likely to generalize that learned bias to others.

This bias results from the context in which they are assessed — from psychological threats in common academic environments, which depress the performances of people targeted by negative intellectual stereotypes.

By understanding and learning from these tendencies, we better equip ourselves to avoid psychological biases when investing.

The legal effect can be identical, but a subtle psychological bias can be introduced by selecting loaded words as definitions or terms.

It promised to target voters» «unconscious psychological biases,» by using massive amounts of data develop personality profiles, which could then be used to create extremely specific ads.

The company, which claims to harvest massive amounts of data to develop personality profiles and target voters» «unconscious psychological biases», has been swept up in an investigation by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

So, what the learned, but possibly biased (remember, the 50/50 rule pro or con here) Judge has publicly stated as reasoning for the continuance of Dale's suit is, in «my» own words, that... «In my mind (according to how I personally see things in my own biased mind (I am human after all) from my own psychological / political perspective re how I want to apply the wording of the law in this particular case), Mr. Dale has the «legal» right to continue with his lawsuit because I, being the sole judge of the presented facts and tactics of persuasion as presented by both sides in this dispute, side with Mr. Dale more so than with TREB and CREA for the following reason (s):