Sentences with phrase «human psychology for»

RB Having studied enough human psychology for many years... what you describe is a delusion... one that you readily feed and nurture... it is faith from wanting to believe.

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The company's founding president recently called the company out for manipulating psychology in a way that's good for its bottom line but bad for humans.

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.»

«This is a topic that's been researched to death by the field of industrial and organizational psychology,» says Peter Cappelli, management professor and director of the center for human resources at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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 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.

Dr. Matthew Walker is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science.

The paper has broad implications for interdisciplinary science, because it demonstrates a striking pattern in human behavior that bears on, among others, the disciplines of psychology, medicine, sociology, economics, and anthropology.

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.

Another serious reason for which experts are bullish on a Bitcoin price surge is due to basic human psychology.

The business consultants at Booz Allen Hamilton — Joyce Doria, Horacio Rozanski and Ed Cohen — made their case for curriculum reform and suggested courses in psychology, economics and human behavior.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already taking heat for exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, got lit into again Tuesday, this time by a prominent technology chief executive who said the giant social network is addictive like cigarettes and should be regulated like big tobacco.

Twenge and Campbell are drawing here on research from the so - called positive psychology movement, which recently has attempted to shift the focus of psychological research away from disease and disorder to a study of the character strengths that make for happiness and human flourishing.

I mean, I'm all for (creationism) in philosophy class, history of religion class, human psychology class,» but bring it into science class, and Nye gets upset.

I think too that if we're going to start using the Sacred Text for prooftexting our particular understanding of human psychology then what about the claims of Jeremiah that speaks of the unknowability of the human heart?

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».

For every explanation you offer I can, and on many occasions have, offered an alternative explanation that's consistent with what we know about human psychology and human history, yet mine require no leaps of faith in a God whose existence I can't prove.

What is more, if such a development should take place, AA might set a pattern for a more fundamental cooperation between religion and psychology in dealing with human problems in general.

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.

Resistance to religion is based on an ineluctable fact of human psychology to which he returns again and again: No one sins without making some excuse to himself for sinning.

He obtained such concepts by generalizing «particular factors discerned in particular topics of human interest; for example, in physics, or in physiology, or in psychology» (5).

His dualistic psychology should be seen for what it is: a put - down of the «inferior» human activities of the body, time and multiplicity by the «superior» activities of intellect, will and memory.

The second main point of difference between Kierkegaard and Girard concerns the starting point for their interpretation of human psychology.

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.

Theoretically, there should be no competition between professionals trained in religion and those trained in psychotherapy, for «the hitherto existing chasm between religion and psychology is somewhat unusual because... both concern themselves with human nature and behavior.»

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.»

Assagioli has an appreciation for the way in which the intensive study of pathology by psychoanalysis and depth psychology has enlarged and deepened our understanding of the human psyche.

Not only is there great promise in such programs for stimulating the poor to increase their own potential for dealing with their problems, (For stimulating discussions of how social action can help develop the human potential of those who participate, see the following articles: Peggy Way, «Community Organization and Pastoral Care: Drum Beat for Dialogue,» Pastoral Psychology, March, 1968 pp. 25 - 36; Rudolph M. Wittenberg, «Personality Adjustment Through Social Action,» in MHP, pp. 378 - 9for stimulating the poor to increase their own potential for dealing with their problems, (For stimulating discussions of how social action can help develop the human potential of those who participate, see the following articles: Peggy Way, «Community Organization and Pastoral Care: Drum Beat for Dialogue,» Pastoral Psychology, March, 1968 pp. 25 - 36; Rudolph M. Wittenberg, «Personality Adjustment Through Social Action,» in MHP, pp. 378 - 9for dealing with their problems, (For stimulating discussions of how social action can help develop the human potential of those who participate, see the following articles: Peggy Way, «Community Organization and Pastoral Care: Drum Beat for Dialogue,» Pastoral Psychology, March, 1968 pp. 25 - 36; Rudolph M. Wittenberg, «Personality Adjustment Through Social Action,» in MHP, pp. 378 - 9For stimulating discussions of how social action can help develop the human potential of those who participate, see the following articles: Peggy Way, «Community Organization and Pastoral Care: Drum Beat for Dialogue,» Pastoral Psychology, March, 1968 pp. 25 - 36; Rudolph M. Wittenberg, «Personality Adjustment Through Social Action,» in MHP, pp. 378 - 9for Dialogue,» Pastoral Psychology, March, 1968 pp. 25 - 36; Rudolph M. Wittenberg, «Personality Adjustment Through Social Action,» in MHP, pp. 378 - 92.)

I have examined enough science, history, human psychology, and searched my memories for useful statistics.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

It does not require profound knowledge of human psychology or vast experience of life to understand why the imagination can never provide a basis for a common faith.

The reason we need to make room for this conviction is that it is basic to «the whole framework of intentional psychology;» in terms of which we ordinarily explain human behavior «We standardly explain actions by... providing «reasons for which» we did what we did; and... it is difficult to evade the conclusion that the explanatory efficacy of reasons derives crucially from their causal efficacy» (SM 287).

The simple dynamics of human psychology provide some explanation for the tenacity of an exclusivist Christo - centrism.

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.

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.

There is no god, just a bunch of scared people who could use a lesson in science and psychology, especially the psychology of those like B graham, stalin, hitler, etc who sociop athically must take advantage of the rest of the human race - for which they have no love or respect.

I'm sure it's not going to resolve anything overnight, but I believe if we push, through the use of media and psychology the idea that the life of our fellow human deserves respect above anything else it will reduce gunfire in general and perhaps the necessity for guns.

What happened this weekend is actually a very good thing and I hope it keeps happening, The younger generations NEED to see all of this and connect the dots... This might all just work itself out wonderfully for the evolution of human psychology & philosophy.

Dr. James Fowler, the author of the famous book on spiritual growth and development, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning, has died.

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.

The College of Education and Human Services develops the knowledge, skills, competencies and moral and ethical values necessary for outstanding performance in teaching, educational leadership, professional psychology and family therapy.

Like human taste buds which reward us for eating what's overwhelmingly critical for survival i.e. fats and sugars, a consideration of human infant and parental biology and psychology reveal the existence of powerful physiological and social factors that promote maternal motivations to cosleep and explain parental needs to touch and sleep close to baby.

Howard Steele, Associate Professor of Psychology, and Co-Director, Center for Attachment Research, New School for Social Research, Editor, Attachment & Human Development

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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.

The broad spectrum of lying and the array of scientific disciplines involved in seeking to understand what drives such behaviors was explored by three experts in psychology, human memories and psychiatry during a lecture at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 10.

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.

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