Sentences with phrase «human psychology as»

A fact of human psychology as it relates to trading the markets is that people tend to become over-confident after a winning trade or a series of winners.

In a way, it's a microcosm of modern politics which has followed the same pattern and both phenomena have to do with simple human psychology as we try to adjust our minds to the vastness of the information age.

Not exact matches

But, as research from neuroscience, psychology and behavioral economics has shown, we humans are not nearly as rational as we think.

«The way I interpret it is that the manager's coming across as more human,» James Pennebaker, a psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told the WSJ's Matthew Kassel.

Fired by greed and fed by naïveté, these stratagems gone awry offer essential reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.»

Crowdsourcing is powerful because social media has made it easy and efficient, and sociology and psychology prove it quenches our desires as human beings to share and please.

But when your company is trying to manipulate consumers into doing something, human psychology is just as likely to work against you as for you.

As much as we may loathe the behavior of the expert flimflam man, we also have to admire his grasp of human psychology and skills of persuasion — skills it's possible to use for far more admirable ends, according to author Alexa ClaAs much as we may loathe the behavior of the expert flimflam man, we also have to admire his grasp of human psychology and skills of persuasion — skills it's possible to use for far more admirable ends, according to author Alexa Claas we may loathe the behavior of the expert flimflam man, we also have to admire his grasp of human psychology and skills of persuasion — skills it's possible to use for far more admirable ends, according to author Alexa Clay.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

Color plays a significant role in human psychology, and up to 85 percent of consumers list color as a top reason for purchasing a product.

Commenting on the 2015 Human Spaces report when it was released, organisational psychology professor Sir Cary Cooper said: «The benefit of design inspired by nature, known as biophilic design, is accumulating evidence at a rapid pace.

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As for me, I am a master's student in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, currently reflecting on my professional aspirations.

He was certainly right to see the importance of human psychology, but just as he raced too quickly from the truth that knowledge rests on sensation to the conclusion that it is confined to it, so he assumed that we can only inhabit our psychology and not evaluate it.

Had you concentrated on the Social Sciences as I have done, History, Sociology and Psychology you might have a clearer understanding of how the human mind creates and maintains the framework for understanding and defining «Reality».

The «soft» social sciences, which includes spirituality as well as psychology and sociology, rely on the statistical evidence that has been tested in the crucible of human experience.

The reality of human sexuality is a patent fact; and it would seem to be intimately tied in with man's total organic movement, which as we have seen includes his physiology, biology, and psychology, as well as his appreciative (and hence his aesthetic), valuational, and feeling qualities.

And where custom dictates that for the sake of convenience we keep to the traditional academic structure, the philosophical question still remains as to whether biology (or psychology or any other human science) has a genuine right to autonomous existence.

Whitehead construes the various possible areas of research very broadly, listing physics, physiology, psychology, aesthetics, ethical beliefs, sociology, or in «languages conceived as storehouses of human experience» (PR 5/7).

But I pointed out that there was new evidence — from biblical studies and from various empirical studies in the human sciences, especially psychology and sociology — that completely undermined the traditional understanding of homosexuality as a chosen and changeable state.

A professor of psychology and social theory at Swarthmore College, Schwartz applies Simon's ideas to the human psyche, with happiness replacing profitability as the desired outcome.

Although psychology, for example, may show that many human relations which are thought genuine are actually neurotic projections from the past and hence I - It, it can not question the fundamental reality of the I - Thou relation nor establish any external, «objectively» valid criteria as to which relations are I - Thou and which I - It.

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

Implicit here is the idea that the biblical texts have a great potential for transforming human thought and life; but this potential has been vitiated during the history of Christianity, as the biblical message has been watered down and made to conform to the pre-existing mimetic psychology of the «world.»

As a natural science, psychology aims to chart these human functions insofar as they exhibit universal regularitieAs a natural science, psychology aims to chart these human functions insofar as they exhibit universal regularitieas they exhibit universal regularities.

Just as physics reveals little of significance about man until one reflects on the enterprises of science and technology, so scientific psychology, aiming to out - do physics in objective rigor, can yield little insight about man until the distinctive human quality of self - awareness is acknowledged as an essential factor in psychological inquiry.

Modern scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology and medical science have started to study the effects of empathy on the human mind and body, on our health and relationships.

But, he said, «the latter history of this culture is not so much a debate between these two schools of thought as a rebellion of romanticism, materialism and psychoanalytic psychology against the errors of rationalism, whether idealistic or naturalistic, in its interpretation of human nature.

To those who have been informed by a materialistic, deterministic, reductionistic metaphysics, the suggestion that human psychology can in principle not discover laws as predictive as those of physics and chemistry, because there are no such laws to be discovered, will seem like defeatism.

The fact that the human psyche is an orderly, cause - and - effect realm is what makes psychology as a science possible.

Human psychology differs greatly, to be sure, not only because we have much less access to the psyches of other animals, but also because their mentality is so much less developed, so that they — at least most of them — seem incapable of entertaining norms as such, The difference is, nevertheless, one of degree, not of kind.

But sociology and psychology generally focus narrowly on the specifically human band of the broad spectrum of cosmic layers and do not concern themselves with the universe as such.

The fact that Whitehead understands human experience to consist in discrete «drops» or «actual occasions» of experience may be an example of the fact that Whitehead's generalizations were developed from more than one starting point, in this case modern quantum theory as well as psychology.

What this means for the study of religion is that we can no longer legitimately isolate it as a peculiar expression of the human mind or focus on it as though psychology and the social sciences, or even theology, were the privileged roads to a contemporary understanding of it.

But the whole array of our instances leads to a conclusion something like this: It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call «something there,» more deep and more general than any of the special and particular «senses» by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

The method of metaphysics is to begin with factors based upon one topic of human interest, such as physics or psychology, imaginatively to generalize those factors in such a way that they might apply to all fields of interest, and then to test these generalizations by trying to apply them to the facts in these other fields (PR 7f.

This is clear enough from the foregoing theological reflections on the relation between faith and justice; for whatever else faith and justice may be said to be, they have been shown to be possibilities of human existence, whose metaphysical implications necessarily include claims about the reality of the self such as properly belong to metaphysical psychology.

Some see Jesus as a very good man who preached love but had no supernatural origin, or as a man who understood human frailty and psychology and hence was able to free others of psychosomatic blindness, etc..

In reflecting on our world he warned: «Today as never before it is important that human beings should not overlook the danger of the evil lurking within them... Psychology must insist on the reality of evil and must reject any definition that regards it as insignificant or actually nonexistent.»

If human behavior, for example, is conceived as made up of a network of pre-programmed responses (psychology), these can be reduced, say, to conditional reflexes (biology), which are in turn nothing but complicated physical chemistry.

She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies where she serves as co-coordinator of the Developmental Science concentration in the Psychology PhD program.

These recent initiatives serve as reminders that sound public policies must evolve in strong connection with an understanding of human psychology, emotions and the sources of happiness and satisfaction.

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio - legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

In psychology and in artificial intelligence, it is used to refer to the mental functions, mental processes and states of intelligent entities (humans, human organizations, highly autonomous robots), with a particular focus toward the study of such mental processes as comprehension, inferencing, decision - making, planning and learning (see also cognitive science and cognitivism).

«Lexigrams were learned, as human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not from behavioral training,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

«Human rights studied as social representations in a cross-national context,» European Journal of Social Psychology 29: 1 - 29.

From her perspective as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Pillay discusses ways that psychology can advance human riHuman Rights, Ms. Pillay discusses ways that psychology can advance human rihuman rights.

She said the issue is not so much social media as it is a need for better understanding of the human psychology that has fostered an era of fake news.

«Robots can't perform as well as humans when it comes to complex social interactions,» said Rodica Damian, assistant professor of social and personality psychology at the University of Houston and lead author of the study.