Sentences with phrase «by social sensitivity»

MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence found that the teams that are best at problem solving are distinguished not by IQ but by social sensitivity.

Not exact matches

We assumed that breastfeeding does not influence the costs of childbearing and discounted future costs by 3 % per year, the social discount rate, to the year when our hypothetical women were aged 25 years, the mean age of U.S. women at first birth.14 We performed sensitivity analyses with discount rates of 0 % and 5 %.

Researchers determined the extent of relative climate sensitivity in the reserves by looking at five factors: social, biophysical, and ecological sensitivity, and exposure to temperature change and sea level rise.

«By increasing their sensitivity to mental states and engaging them in reasoning about false beliefs, we enabled young children not only to quickly apply their newly acquired knowledge to solve a problem in a social situation but also to continue to do so more than a month later,» Lee and colleagues write.

So the researchers, headed by Douglas Oxley of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, decided to test the idea that liberal and conservative (or «protective») social beliefs are related to individuals» sensitivity to threat.

According to the researchers, the findings «support the notion that pleasant touch plays a vital role in human social interactions by demonstrating that the sensitivity to pleasant touch emerges early in human development.»

Although the reasons for increased risk to male babies are not known, they could include developmental differences in the growth and function of the placenta, or increased sensitivity of male fetuses to environmental factors experienced by the mother, including obesity, smoking, advanced maternal age, and social deprivation.

We propose that the remarkable quantitative stability of the climate sensitivity range has helped to hold together a variety of different social worlds relating to climate change, by continually translating and adapting the meaning of the «stable» range.

Diverse sensitivity thresholds in dynamic signaling responses by social amoebae.

Blamed for everything from headaches, to abnormal weight loss / gain, to constipation / diarrhea, to menstrual irregularity, to leaky gut / bowel inflammation, to anemia... and basically everything including cancer and the deaths of kittens (ok, maybe not), gluten has really gotten a bad rap in the past several years, probably very much in part due to the publishing of the book Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis, the landmark study on Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS) by Dr. Peter Gibson, and the explosion of social media in the past decade that has given an unprecedented voice to people who otherwise would have no credibility with which to garner attention towards themselves.

But when it turns out that «cool kids» like Eric (Dave Franco) and Molly (Brie Larson) share more in common with Schmidt's sensitivity than they do Jenko's blustery indifference, the cops get sidetracked from their duties by the unexpected discoveries they make, while stuck on the other side of the social paradigm.

Art installations, architectural interventions, design objects or social - oriented projects, the works by Elisasson, developed in his multidisciplinary Studio, always demonstrate a great formal sensitivity, a profound knowledge of physics and technology, a great capability to understand the spirit of place, and an exemplary interest in people, who often become part of his works as actors, instead than being passive spectators.

Scenarios devised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change don't just involve different estimations of climate sensitivity, they involve different projections of the spread of renewable energy and efficiency, the development of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), the rate of deforestation, and all sorts of other social, political, and technological trends.

For some additional context on the sensitivity of the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) to a host of assumptions — some economic, some scientific — please read the following paper by Moyer et al..

As we face a potential doubling or tripling of ca from its preindustrial value by the end of this century [Solomon et al., 2007], a long - term climate sensitivity exceeding 3 °C for CO2 doubling has important ramifications for a range of critical global economic, social, and political issues [Hansen et al., 2013].

But it was cold this winter and C02 is plant food and only a trace gas and the greenhouse effect has been disproved anyway and even if the greenhouse effect does exist, C02 has negligible impact compared to water vapour and our only source of heat is the sun so it must be the sun, unless it is due to the C02 from volcanoes, but C02 follows warming so it can't be the C02 and the medieval warm period was warmer anyway and all the temperature reconstructions that show this not to be true are produced by corrupt scientists being paid by corrupt governments that have colluded to create an excuse to form a one world unelected social - ist government and even if the scientists are not that corrupt, although the e-mails prove they are, they have still got it wrong as the climate sensitivity is not as high as they think it is because it is basically the planets orbits and cosmic rays so we can say for a fact that the warming that probably does not exist is definatley not due to humans and even if it was the evidence is not sufficient to make drastic changes to the economy and increase taxes so that the politicians and scientists and business leaders get rich and leave us all poor — do they think we are stupid or something?

The legal sector has entered a new era: one shaped by technology, social media, globalization, emerging markets, the fallout from the financial crisis, competition from alternative providers of legal services, and a heightened sensitivity to cost.

The relationship between allele frequency and depression was partially mediated by individualism — collectivism, suggesting that reduced levels of depression in populations with a high proportion of social sensitivity alleles is due to greater collectivism.

Studies of high intensity EBHV programs focused on at - risk families have found that these programs have positive impacts on maternal care, as demonstrated by increased maternal responsiveness, warmth / sensitivity toward the child, and maintaining focus on the child; subsequently improving the cognitive and social behavioral functioning of the child (Guttentag et al., 2014; Black et al., 2007).

This view is shared by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples who has recommended that the reports of the Social Justice Commissioner «should be given greater attention in government administration to promote a higher level of accountability and sensitivity to human rights commitments».

Today, in 2016, F&CS's mission is to support, promote and strengthen the well - being of individuals and families by providing high - quality, accessible mental health care and related social services, with a particular sensitivity toward the needs of children.

Mother - child interactions were coded by four raters on the dimensions of Maintaining Attention and Warm Sensitivity, the latter comprising the subscales of Positive Affect, Social Responsiveness, and Warm Concern.

In other words, as stated in the final report about positive family functioning edited by the Australian Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (2010), family functions refers to a variety of characteristics encompassing several domains such as emotional attributes (e.g., closeness of parent — child relationships, warmth, sensitivity, perceived support, and safety), family governance issues (e.g., members» role, age appropriate rules), engagement and cognitive development, physical health habits, quality of intra-familial relationships (e.g., parent — child interactions, parent - parent relationships, spouse — spouse relationships), and social connectedness (e.g., relationships with the extended family, activities outside the family unit, members» role balance).

[jounal] Downey, G. / 1998 / The self - fulfilling prophecy in close relationships: Rejection sensitivity and rejection by romantic partners / Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 75: 545 ~ 560

To address the aforementioned gaps in the literature, we sought to determine the association between maternal — infant relationship qualities (sensitivity, responsiveness and control) and child AD by 2 years of age, considering risk (i.e. maternal prenatal and postnatal depression, anxiety and stress) and protective (i.e. social support) factors.

Here, we aimed to replicate and extend those initial studies by examining the factor structure, construct validity, and treatment sensitivity of the NSPS in samples of community - based participants with a principal diagnosis of social anxiety disorder (SAD), a principal anxiety disorder diagnosis other than SAD, or no history of psychological problems.

[jounal] Berenson, K. R. / 2009 / Rejection sensitivity and disruption of attention by social threat cues / Journal of Research in Personality 43: 1064 ~ 1072

Maternal interpersonal sensitivity was positively associated with child social problems, and this relationship was fully mediated by child emotion dysregulation.

First, children's sustained attention and impulsivity at age 4.5 years partially mediated the relation between parenting quality (as measured by a composite index of physical and social resources in the home, observer ratings of parental sensitivity and cognitive stimulation) at 4.5 years and children's academic achievement (as measured by performance on standardized reading and mathematics tests) at age 6 (NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003).