Sentences with phrase «defense mechanism from»

It may also be a defense mechanism from opening up too soon and risking being hurt.

Sometimes it is a great defense mechanism from in our evolutionary past and is quite useful.

Not exact matches

That's partly a safety and defense mechanism that we use to keep from engaging with threats.

So rather than learning from our mistakes, we tend to double down and get further entrenched in our position as a defense mechanism.

When it comes to my relationship with God and with other Christians, I'm as quick as anyone else to try and protect myself from honest dialog by hiding behind flowery, unhelpful language (or, my favorite defense mechanism: to intellectualize everything so that it can't hurt me).

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

Another study found that maltodextrin impairs cellular antibacterial responses and suppresses intestinal antimicrobial defense mechanisms, leading to inflammatory bowel disease and other GI conditions that arise from an inappropriate immune response to bacteria.

Maybe it was some kind of innate defense mechanism, to prevent me from being distracted by anyone else's needs while fulfilling my children's nutritional ones.

Scientists believe that plants produce the caffeine molecule as a defense mechanism to prevent organisms such as fruit flies from eating them.

To test how rising CO2 might affect their defense mechanism, Weiss exposed stock Daphnias in the lab to levels of CO2 ranging from just above the maximum level seen in global freshwater to about 60 percent more than that maximum, to mimic a worst - case scenario.

Some researchers explain this wanton violence through «terror management theory»: To buffer ourselves from fear of death and reinforce our self - esteem and worldview, humans construct elaborate and sometimes violent defense mechanisms.

Mentors provide a critical line of defense to prevent this from occurring and are a critical mechanism for connecting students with challenging problems, projects, internship positions, jobs, fellowships, and other career opportunities.

This is likely to be a novel cellular defense mechanism to prevent genetic mutations from being expressed.

Salamanders hatched from eggs that have been doused with predator - scented water showed reduced activity — a common defense mechanism — compared with those from eggs in odorless water.

Tapping into this natural defense mechanism might enable researchers to prevent cancers like melanoma, which results from DNA damage to melanocytes in the skin, adds Jackson.

«Knowledge of defense and attack mechanisms in bacteria is crucial for future development of potential alternatives to antibiotics,» explains Dr. Daniel Koster, from the department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

From an evolutionary perspective, the findings reveal that sophisticated immune defense mechanisms in respiratory surfaces came about very early in vertebrate evolution.

This resulted in a staggering 50,000 virus - host protein interactions, approximately 500 of which appeared to be involved in viral infection.By removing the interacting host proteins from the cell one at a time, the researchers were able to determine what their functional contribution was in the infection process: whether the host proteins were hijacked by the virus and used to spread infection, or whether they were part of a defense mechanism against the virus.

The respiratory system has defense mechanisms which protect the epithelium against bacterial infection and foreign particles / molecules from being deposited.29 These mechanisms can be summarized to the following: a) beating cilia, b) mucus, c) macrophages, d) transporters and e) enzymes.

Taking inspiration from the defense mechanism of the bombardier beetle, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a film that, when damaged, instantly releases a hot foam to discourage malicious actions.

We've recently seen a number of proposals for protecting coral reefs from the dangers of climate change, and now it turns out that corals already have a self - defense mechanism.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and is the recipient of the 2009 Robert Koch Award, from the Robert Koch Foundation, in recognition of his groundbreaking research work into the mechanisms of defense against bacterial infection.

This «armoring» is a defense mechanism that holds us back from experiencing life and ourselves to the fullest.

The body possesses multiple endogenous defense mechanisms to protect it from ROS by weakening and destroying those substances.

So they had to develop other defense mechanisms — anti-nutrients called phytates, lectins and gluten — to deter animals from eating them.

Furthermore, unlike methylmercury ingested from fish, injected ethylmercury is not subject to the natural defense mechanisms related to ingestion, including metallothioneins and selenium.

pain relief), which appears to be a powerful defense mechanism protecting the individual from detrimental effects of stress.

A derivative of glucose, Chitin stimulates your skin's defense mechanisms, protecting it from harsh environmental stimuli and accelerating the healing process.

He said it was a defense mechanism stemming from his fears about a possible relationship with me.

The defense mechanisms used by Oliver to keep himself emotionally disengaged from Jordana (most keenly revealed in one of the movieâ $ ™ s best scenes, where Oliver compulsively finds excuses not to accompany her to the hospital to visit her dying mother), are echoed in the distancing tactics used by Ayoade in the movie itself.

That defense mechanism of deflection has been part of Stark's character from the start, but it's taken in a different direction here.

Thalamus: receives input from the senses and «decides» to send information to either the sensory cortex (conscious fear) or the amygdala (defense mechanism)

Drawing on everything from ancient Egyptian medical texts to cutting - edge medical science, the book takes readers on an adventure packed with weird and wonderful facts about their own defense mechanisms, making this both informative and great fun to read.

(Hiding pain is a defense mechanism designed to keep predators from spotting weakness and vulnerability).

Some people think that removing claws from cats means removing cat's defense mechanism.

Bladder infection results when bacteria from the lower tract climb into the bladder, defeating the natural defense mechanisms of the system (forward urine flow, the bladder lining, inhospitable urine chemicals etc.).

This is a defense mechanism they have developed to get away from predators.

Taking lessons from Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and The 3rd Birthday (both not so coincidentally helmed by Type - 0 director Hajime Tabata), Type - 0 breaks down into real - time combat with a heavy emphasis on lock - on attack and defense mechanisms.

We've recently seen a number of proposals for protecting coral reefs from the dangers of climate change, and now it turns out that corals already have a self - defense mechanism.

Already in the United States, the Defense Department has established a clear policy: It reserves the use of lethal force for human operators, and requires safety mechanisms to be built into autonomous systems to keep them from selecting and targeting humans independently.

«In a complex active attack — where an attacker tries, for example, to dump the memory by extracting it from the chip — a Secure Element protects against those by encrypting everything in place (flash, RAM, memory buses) and features a mesh that'll detect potential intrusions into the chip structure and erase its internal cryptographic keys when it happens,» Bacca explained as an example defense mechanism.

This might manifest as body image issues, lack of confidence, defense mechanisms, or fear of abandonment or rejection stemming from past relationship experiences.

His depression was a defense mechanism in the sense that it protected him from looking at his own subjective agency in choosing whether or not to make his marriage work.

For the most part, people are not inherently mean but more likely driven by defense mechanisms and old wounds from the past.

My therapist says that I «check out» as a defense mechanism — that I numb myself by disassociating from the trauma.

Insecure people may exhibit various defense mechanisms that shield them from rejection, thereby creating emotional distance in relationships.

It becomes a double edged sword; a defense mechanism that they utilize to keep themselves from being hurt anymore, but at the same time, it isolates them from those around them.

Someone who derives personal security from having all the commonly accepted indicators of financial success — a big house, fancy car — typically suffer from an inflated ego, which of course, is merely a defense mechanism.