Sentences with phrase «human tendency of»

Scientists seem to have that human tendency of not being right all the time.

There's a very powerful natural human tendency of policy to drive the science as one's position gets closer to the former and farther from the latter.

I feel linemakers are taking advantage of the basic human tendency of overreacting to recent performances.

There is however a human tendency of the righteous to want to see others punished for their wrongdoing.

Not exact matches

Cognitive bias are misleading quirks of thought — mental tendencies that are part of human nature.

And that's not just because of the usual human tendency to speak fondly of the departed.

Instead, it's an example of another very human tendency leaders need to guard against — we often forget to properly appreciate low - drama, super high achievers until after they've left us.

Economists tell us that quitting is actually often the smart move and that while humans have a natural tendency to avoid losing sunk costs (otherwise known «throwing good money after bad»), cutting your losses is frequently the better course of action.

Then they tested their «impulsive approach tendencies» toward men (that is, their latent attraction to them) in a task that involved tapping keyboard keys rapidly, to move an on - screen manikin - a basic drawing of a human figure - as quickly as possible in a specified direction.

You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

Once they do mount, another quirk of human nature comes into play — one that Baruch alluded to: the tendency for stubbornness to give way to panic, leading investors to dump their holdings at a bottom.

The explanation is a stew of human tendencies.

Put simply, it is the study of human behavior, practice, and tendencies related to finance, economics, and investment decision - making.

Part of the gap in returns can probably be explained by the human tendency to panic at bad news, Professor Kelly said.

Its human nature to always be on the lookout for something newer and better, and unfortunately we have a tendency to associate the two together in our thinking that technology can provide the perfect answer to all of life's problems.

It's sad that a nation with such a wealth of human resources is so inclined to dehumanizing, totalitarian and draconian tendencies.

Throughout the annals of the social sciences related to psychology, anthropology, and ethnography, many studies have shown human behavior tendency to reveal more to neutral parties.

I think many practices of many religions stem from human OCD tendencies.

In the present social and cultural context, where there is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human development.

It is instead of just another human institution with all the same tendencies as every other institution that is built by to give an elite few power over others for monetary gain.

Our natural capacities and tendencies must actually be realized or expressed, and a culture - making animal like the human being realizes and expresses them in all kinds of different ways.

To think that the mystery of a person could be contained in a binder is a scary thought to me; just another example of the corporate culture's tendency to see people as impersonal «human resources» rather than employees, workers, personnel or even «human capital.»

In short, the human condition entails genuinely natural capacities for religion, which these four tendencies often direct toward the actualized practice of religion.

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

Still, we can justifiably say that human beings are naturally religious — as a matter of real, natural potentiality, capacity, and tendency — while at the same time acknowledging that very many human beings and even some cultures are not particularly religious at all.

Nevertheless, because the tendencies normally direct the capacities in certain directions, when we speak about human nature we are pointing to a certain grain in the expressed features, abilities, tendencies, and operations of persons.

This sort of pattern continues throughout the entire Bible, even if the human tendency to blame God is not always so evident.

It's entitled «The Danger of a Single Story,» and Adichie, a Nigerian writer, thoughtfully and humorously describes the human tendency to project a single, simplistic story onto groups of people who we perceive to be different than ourselves.

Let us admit this frankly, once and for all: what most discredits faith in progress in the eyes of men today, over and above its reticences and its helplessness in meeting the cry of the «last days of the human species», is the unfortunate tendency still shown by its adepts to distort into pitiful millenarianisms all that is most valid and most noble in our now permanently awakened expectation of the future appearance of some form of «ultra-humanity».

One reason why AA has certain repressive tendencies is its inadequate conception of human personality.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

The tendency to «hallow the relative,» or give absolute divine authority to our own desires and opinions, is one of the commonest forms of human perversion.

For, as Caldecott highlights, the Catholic tendency, from Thomas Aquinas through to the contemporary Catechism (one might also add St Augustine and the 14th - century papal Encyclical Benedictus Deus) has been to emphasise that the human soul is not physical, but rather spiritual, in the image of God's divine nature, and directly created at conception.

«1 But despite Plato's insight that power is involved in both the ability to affect and the ability to be affected (with its implication that reality and value might involve both), there has been a persistent tendency to favor what Bernard Loomer has called unilateral power — the ability to affect while remaining unaffected.2 Although this tendency is evident in every field of human thought, it will be appropriate to examine it first in the philosophical tradition, where it goes hand in hand with the valuation of being over becoming.

He recognized that the tendency, especially among Christian thinkers of the past, has been to deny these factors in human life.

The cops I know are constantly struggling with some form of» - ism» (e.g. race, age, class, etc) given the combination of experience and an innate human tendency towards profiling.

That self - centred tendency is the main obstacle to a just and harmonious society and to the personal, human fulfilment of each one.

He felt that Whitehead had yielded to the natural human tendency to conceive of God in terms which offered a merely pleasant feeling about religion without demanding the kind of ultimate commitment to the creative process itself which Wieman felt was urgently needed.

These are the tendencies to take on the religious coloring of the times and to make of their experience something new and unique in human history.

When correctly understood, these principles of obligation help Christians discern what they should do and lead them in both actualizing and mediating between various tendencies and needs (the third level) which Christians believe are essential for human existence.

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.

The third and most important cause of confusion and conflict in the moral enterprise is the human tendency toward self - centeredness.

Doing this is such an ever - present tendency of human nature that Jesus felt impelled to say in the Sermon on the Mount, «Judge not, that you be not judged.

Our human tendency is to think of justice as «getting even,» as one small boy strikes another and the other strikes back, or as a supposedly mature individual or nation thinks it must give back to enemies either the treatment received or something more severe.

And, if we know anything about human nature, we know we have a desire for certainty, a fear of being wrong, a tendency to difine ourselves by our beliefs and to identify those like - minded, the «us» of the them / us divide.

We no longer have J. B. talking of the human tendency to start again in blind ignorance.

Mr. Liben has correctly identified a serious challenge to human welfare, a tendency to regard individuals as puppets of «society,» and therefore without moral responsibility for their conduct.

And Whitehead says that he does not think it is inevitable that the human mind spatializes, though it often does this, and when it does, one way or another, whether through partiality or something else, it deforms the object of knowledge and of experience... [But] Bergson believed that, at least to some significant degree, the spatializing tendencies of the human intellect and of human intelligence, can be overcome by a biology and a physics that is less mechanistic.

There are four types of evil of which the modern age is particularly aware: the loneliness of modern man before an unfriendly universe and before men whom he associates with but does not meet; the increasing tendency for scientific instruments and techniques to outrun man's ability to integrate those techniques into his life in some meaningful and constructive way; the inner duality of which modern man has become aware through the writings of Dostoievsky and Freud and the development of psychoanalysis; and the deliberate and large - scale degradation of human life within the totalitarian state.