Sentences with phrase «control human behavior»

Nodes and miners, blind to the identities behind alphanumeric addresses, can't be shamed by the Andrew Ross Sorkins of the world into trying to control human behavior.

Invisibilia (Latin for all the invisible things) is about the invisible forces that control human behavior - ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions.

### Invisibilia NPR's mind - bending series is, you might have heard, «about the invisible forces that control human behavior.»

We vastly underestimate the role of context in controlling human behavior and instead base our judgments on extremely limited information.

Ka's art practice explores how public systems control human behaviors in urban settings and suggests alternatives to deconstruct these systems on an individual level.

Not exact matches

Social psychologists built terror - management theory on Becker's insights: «The basic motivation for human behavior is our biological need to control our basic anxiety, to deny the terror of death.»

The development of effective birth control methods has made it possible for the unitive function of human sexuality to be expressed more freely, which admittedly given predisposition to selfish predatory behavior is a mixed blessing.

Usually, however, human behavior is not caused by the direct application of physical force, but is controlled by habit patterns acquired in earlier social experience.

Skinner declares: «As we learn more about the effects of the environment we have less reason to attribute any part of human behavior to an autonomous controlling agent.»

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

Islam affirms that the whole of life is under God's control and that all human behavior should be in obedience to God's will.

The control of human behavior in the interests of efficiency presents frightening possibilities, conveyed vividly by Huxley's Brave New World or Orwell's 1984.

• The need to exercising self - compassion as you process emotions • Emotional purging in a conscious way to move to an easier parenting journey • Moving passed mindfulness and consciousness to peacefulness • Functioning as a peaceful human being • Moving from «doing» to «being» • The value of peaceful presence, free of emotional trigger, for your kids • Modelling ownership of behavior for your kids • Peacefulness as a practice that takes time • Parenting as an extension of nature: gradually forging new pathways in your relationships and being expansive, not staying «stuck» • The healing power of authenticity with your kids • Aiming for perseverance and presence, not perfection • Exercising compassion for others and recognizing we don't know their struggles • Learning how not to try to control others and focus on self to remain peaceful • Journalling as a practice to release emotions • Finding opportunities for stillness • Releasing others from the responsibility for reading your mind • Shifting to a solution focus to create momentum • Fear: being curious about it to avoid being driven by it • Showing up in your own home to make a difference in the world • Practical ways to nourish yourself • Unconditional love — what does that look like?

In terms of the goal of controlling behavior, he viewed humans, and their conditioned responses, in much the same way as he viewed the animals upon which he conducted his experiments.

With such an undeveloped little brain, they are about as close to their genes as any human will ever get and have little control over their behavior.

The Golden Goose Award has honored innovative research that developed a diabetes medication from Gila monster venom, an algorithm based on marriage stability that led to the development of a program to match kidney patients with donors and the «marshmallow test» — a measure of young children's self - control that has led to greater understanding of human behavior.

«But the nervous system in both nematode worms and humans is organized into small functional units called neural circuits, where neurons communicate with each other to control a simple outcome, such as behavior.»

Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

That's the tantalizing finding from a new study published today that reveals a way that mice — and potentially humans — can control the makeup and behavior of their gut microbiome.

Since all behavior is controlled by the brain, human beings may have evolved specialized neural circuits that are responsible for compliance with society's rules.

Also of concern are emerging sexually transmitted diseases, which, once introduced, may be difficult to control because it is hard to persuade humans to change sexual behavior or to abstain from sex.

Study co-author Nigel Bamford, a pediatric neurologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, says that if similar changes occur in humans, it will indicate that an effective way to fight addiction may be to design therapies that target the affected area — the striatum, a forebrain region that controls movement but also has been linked to habit - forming behavior.

«Human feeding behaviors involve areas of the brain responsible for cognitive control and decision - making,» said Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, Director of the Human Nutrition Unit in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Fish and humans are separated by 400 million years of evolution, so the control of these behaviors may not be the same in humans and fish.

Developing tests and closely monitoring the virus's behavior in hopes of controlling a human outbreak may be a more realistic alternative, she says.

A human controller influences the turtle's escape behavior by sending left and right signals via Wi - Fi to a control system on the back of the turtle.

This theory from social science provides general approaches, not framed mathematically, to account for several distinct aspects of human behavior including attitudes towards impacts of behaviors, perception of social norms, and perceptions about the capability for behaviors to be effective and to have impact on controlling a system.

I am fascinated by how certain behavior can spiral out of control and how this is reflected in the human brain.

Dynamic actin filaments control the mechanical behavior of the human red blood cell membrane.

«It has long been hypothesized that focused attention practice improves attentional control while open monitoring promotes emotional non-reactivity — two aspects of mindfulness thought to contribute its therapeutic effects,» says study lead and corresponding author Willoughby Britton, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior.

Changes in atmospheric chemistry produced naturally and by humans, behavior of abrupt climate change events in the atmosphere; multiple controls on climate and the unique role of human impact.

It builds on several recent and ongoing research efforts to provide high - resolution measurements of behavior and behavioral response of marine mammals to human noise in their environment using controlled exposure experiments.

But human altruism can not possibly be controlled by a single gene, and different genes that might produce altruistic behavior probably interact, making the kin selection equation quite a bit more complicated.

But such events have raised scientific questions about why humans can't control behaviors such as laughing, yawning, coughing and shivering — and why they spread among groups of people.

Professor Bargmann's pioneering work has provided important insights into the molecular switches and controls for C. elegans movement and behavior — many of which have human counterparts.

The human brain and all of its functions are controlled by the billions of neurotransmitters and receptors, and by changing their behavior we can drastically improve its functioning.

Additionally, randomized, double - blinded, placebo - controlled studies in humans have shown that sulforaphane may have the ability to improve autistic behavior checklist scores by 34 %!

Oxytocin - controls key aspects of the reproductive system and some aspects of human behavior 2.

The revolutionary insight that humans have an endocannabinoid system, which controls executive function, mood, social behavior, and pain, is conserved from invertebrates to high mammals, and can be activated by cannabinoids in marijuana, renewed interest in its medicinal applications (5, 52).

Abusive behaviors can manifest in several ways such as name - calling, demanding passwords, controlling purchases or Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

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The technology may be in place to allow a car to effectively drive itself but that technology does not have any control over human behavior.

Cats need to be able to perform natural behaviors (scratching, hiding, having their own space, etc.) and have control over their interactions with humans and other animals.

Dog breeds are dogs that have relatively uniform physical characteristics developed under controlled conditions by humans, with breeding animals selected for phenotypic traits such as size, coat color, structure, and behavior.

Training the dog to walk nicely on leash provides even more mental stimulation, as it allows the human to control the walk and the dog must think about his behavior.

These are their natural behaviors and we need to teach them how to live with us humans and how to control these natural impulses.

The humans controls the resource of food and rewards the puppy for good behavior.

«If your dog becomes growly, snappy, or otherwise dangerous when you try to remove him from a human, you are dealing with serious challenge and control behavior.

Dr. Marc Bekoff — professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and co-founder (with primatologist Jane Goodall) of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — argues that the same brain mechanisms that control moral behavior in humans also control such behavior in other mammals.

Not only will birth control curb overpopulation, Blasko said, it will preclude the obnoxious behaviors of rabbits vying for a mate — behaviors that often lead their humans to abandon them.