Sentences with phrase «cultural predispositions»

The study found that subjects did not react in a uniform, much less a uniformly positive manner, but rather polarized along lines consistent with cultural predispositions toward technological risk generally.

There are instances where there is no conflict between the science and people's cultural predispositions, but because of the way it was presented, it gave that impression and resulted in people getting an incorrect understanding of the science as a result.

But clearly what people's virtual processing was filling the blanks on the perceptual screen * with * was shaped by the unconscious motivation of the subjects to observe in the film behavior that fit affirmed their cultural predispositions.

Fascinating new research highlighted by the National Science Foundation a few days ago provides support for something that many Dot Earth readers know all too well: Deep - rooted cultural predispositions powerfully shape people's perceptions of scientific findings.

Cost Perceptions and College - Going for Low - Income Students highlights how inaccurate information, cultural predispositions, and loan aversion contribute to the enrollment behavior of low - income students and, ultimately, dictates the likelihood of their degree attainment.

They measure individual cultural predisposition along two dimensions: hierarchy versus egalitarianism, and individualism versus communitarianism.

Given the trends affecting the legal industry, especially the trends facing sophisticated law firms, those with a cultural predisposition that devalues so - called non-lawyers will be at a distinct disadvantage in the future.

Not exact matches

We must relate to each other from within the context of our cultural, social and sexual predispositions and in so doing accept our limited perspective rather than believe that we have the universal blueprint for what it means to be human.

What we hold to be appropriate is influenced by innate predispositions and cultural factors, but potential harms and benefits ought to be considered.

Seligman's work suggests a more sophisticated model of psychological health: «The dynamic between people's cultural context, experience, predisposition, and physiological constitutions determines the outcomes they will experience.

Psychological trauma or predisposition to obsessive thinking can compound cultural cues.

The creative processes for artists vary, of course, in accordance with the predispositions, inclinations, insights, and experiences of the individuals themselves and their respective worldviews, cultural interactions, and social intuitions.

(The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication has done a lot of work revealing how powerfully such cultural and ideological predispositions shape views of the phenomenon too loosely called «global warming.»)

His august title there is Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School, but my favorite incarnation of Kahan is as the driving force behind the Cultural Cognition Project, which has shown empirically that powerful predispositions shape how we select and react to information.

This would be consistent with theories of gene — culture interaction that posit there are genetic influences creating psychological predispositions that favor the adoption of particular cultural content in a process of biased transmission (Richerson and Boyd, 2005; Henrich and McElreath, 2007).

Diana Baumrind's groundbreaking research results on parenting styles reflect some relatively big cultural parenting paradigm changes that occurred during the 1940s and 1950s as well as showing her own predisposition of favoring the authoritative parenting style.