Sentences with phrase «deep human tendency»

«I never would have imagined that I would learn such things, when I set out as a middle - aged graduate student, that there's a pretty deep human tendency to worry about mineral supply,» Stern said.

He insightfully detects sin in the form of moral self - righteousness, in our deep human tendency to believe that we are morally better than we really are.

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Human beings have a spontaneous tendency toward grouping resulting from the fact that man is essentially a social being whose deepest personality needs can be satisfied only in relationships.

Human mothers would have a tendency to reflect longer and deeper about such a man.

Deep ecologists want to counter Western culture's anthropocentrism — its tendency to place humanity at the center of the universe and to reduce the nonhuman world to an instrument for human ends — with a theory of an expanded self which calls for identification with the nonhuman world.

There's a deep - rooted human tendency to glorify the biggest.

Their goal is to get as many people as possible to buy nothing at all over a 24 - hour span on Friday in the United States (and Saturday elsewhere around the world), as a small blow against what they say are the destructive efforts of advertisers and corporations to fuel the deep - rooted human tendency to want the next new thing.

But it's worth beginning a conversation about ways to live safer in such hazard zones given that this storm season is just getting under way and that big regions of America's tornado hot zone have deep vulnerability resulting from runaway growth and a human tendency to discount threats that have a low probability but disastrous potential.

The social influence model86 is also a useful conceptual framework to guide development of media interventions, as it highlights the core principles that promote successful persuasion and influence; for example, to the extent that interventions make use of the power of social validation by similar or liked others (i.e. «others like me are doing it») and of humans» tendency to act in accordance with prior commitments to others and to deep - seated values, they are likely to have more influence on viewers» attitudes, intents and behaviours.