Sentences with phrase «influences human thought»

«Symbolic communication influences human thought, affect, and action,» «Human nature is a broad potentiality that can be fashioned by the direct and observational occurrence.»

Through the Pantone Color Institute, Pantone continues to study how color influences human thought processes, emotions and physical reactions, furthering its commitment to providing professionals with a greater understanding of color and to help them utilize color more effectively.

The electronic events in my brain influence my human thought and feeling.

For example, one has you tracking down microbes that allow the aliens to influence human thought through telepathy so you can create a serum that will stop the aliens from being able to enter human minds, just as they did to President Whitmore (Pullman) in the first Independence Day.

Not exact matches

The idea, which was primarily based on the research of psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey, quickly took off — and went on to greatly influence the way we think about emotions and human behavior.

The idea — that an ability to understand and manage emotions greatly increases our chances of success — quickly took off, and it went on to greatly influence the way people think about emotions and human behavior.

His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Award.

Welcome to bible land, where love, sin, heaven, hell, the past, the future, all fall into this obscure, foggy area that is entirely influenced by human emotion, tradition, guesswork, and wishful thinking.

Begin with the thought that human development appears these days driven entirely by scientific and technological advances (knowledge) as influencing and influenced by economic, political, and social uses of that knowledge (praxis).

Cartesians — taking the theologically grounded refusal to believe in spirits or worry about the influence of final causes to some sort of plausible limit — believed that «animals» were insentient, and that only humans had goals or thoughts or feelings.

One may hope that The Tipping Point is not likely to reach the tipping point of influencing many people in their thinking about the human condition.

Rolston laments that many influenced by the mechanistic worldview of industrial civilizations think of nonhuman nature as something devoid of value until assigned importance by human beings.

And, although the poem from Pilgrim's Regress surely betrays the influence of philosophical idealism on Lewis's thought, it also shows certain Christian assumptions about what it means to be human.

Meanwhile, Protestant thought, influenced by the moral idealism and historical optimism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, followed a similar course but moved closer and closer to a form of utopian pacifism in which war would be eliminated because of the increasing perfection of human social institutions.

Although few Protestants would still claim that the United States is an «almost Christianized» nation, the Victorian way of thinking about the world, God, and human nature still influences theological discourse.

This is that, under the combined influence of two irresistible forces of planetary dimensions (the geographical curve of the Earth, by which we are physically compressed, and the psychic curve of Thought, which draws us closer together), the power of reflection of the human mass, which means its degree of humanization, far from having come to a stop, is entering a critical period of intensification and renewed growth.

While I am not aware of significant discussions of this issue among process thinkers, Matthew Fox and Brian Swimme, who though not directly influenced by process thought nonetheless share the relational vision, have incorporated elements of this, particularly through the use of art, in their own education process in order to stimulate the «right» brain, the intuitive and imaginative capacities of the human mind.

The assumption underlying much contemporary thought is that authentic human existence is achieved only in moments where we become fully conscious of our creativity.11 The dominant anthropological image is that of homo faber.12 The influence of Marx and existentialism is present here, and these two strands of modern thought are always suspicious of any ideological or religious inclinations to undermine a sense of our human productivity.

Though the roots of this attitude can be found in ancient mythic and religious forms of thought, in the past three centuries the estrangement of human subjects from the natural world in turn has been built up in our imaginations under the influence of certain types of scientific epistemology and cosmology.

In the language of many of those influenced by Barth, statements about what is real independently of human experience and thought are «metaphysical,» and these theologians hold that metaphysics is clearly disallowed by Barth as by contemporary philosophy in general.

To the extent that we are committed to the ideal of a secular society free of ecclesiastical influence and governed by toleration, liberty, and a conception of civic virtue; and insofar as we think of true religious piety as consisting in treating other human beings with dignity and respect, and regard the Bible simply as a profound work of human literature with a universal moral message, we are the heirs of Spinoza's scandalous treatise.

The influence of God on human beings has not been thought of primarily in this way.

In an improving state of the human mind, the influences are constantly on the increase which tend to generate in each individual a feeling of unity with all the rest; which, if perfect, would make him never think of, or desire, any beneficial condition for himself in the benefits of which they are not included.

Fully as thought - provoking, as we are to see, has been the fact that some of the chronic evils which have plagued the human race have reached their most colossal dimensions through peoples which have borne the Christian name and have been longest under the influence of Christianity.

I think that's part of what it means to be human — we have free will and are shaped and influenced by both internal and external forces.

Thus, the difficulty has been that in much philosophical thought, with its influence upon other ways of thinking and also upon our ways of acting as humans, there has been a failure to grasp adequately the peril of talk about individuals and equally about substance.

One may suggest at least three topologies that have influenced modern thinking on this: Humans above nature; humans in nature, and humans with nHumans above nature; humans in nature, and humans with nhumans in nature, and humans with nhumans with nature.

This great writer that has had more influence on political thinking and strategies than perhaps any other author in human history taught us a critical and crucial lesson in his famous 14th century literary masterpiece and treatise on the power game titled «The Prince».

Next, although science may come closer to universality than any other human activity, there are distinct local variations, as scientists adapt to local constraints and approach science with ways of thinking that are influenced by local culture, and these different ways of doing science can teach us things.

But research shows that smells can have a powerful subconscious influence on human thoughts and behavior.

«Both UVA and UVB cause skin ageing in humans, but UVA has more influence, so I don't think this is hugely relevant to humans,» says dermatologist Richard Weller of the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Virgin, an immunologist, said he thinks the new findings will produce a more complicated but also much more insightful picture of how human, bacterial and viral genes influence human health.

What's more, work with animals has led to the idea that personality traits evolve to help individuals survive in a wider variety of ecological niches, and this is influencing the way psychologists think about human personality.

A plurality of the total number surveyed — 33 percent — thought it was caused by a mix of natural and human influences.

She also thinks that though human influence might be «greater than we realize,» this regional climate change is probably caused by many factors, including increased irrigation in the region.

VISION To showcase the human face of inventors in order to inspire, inform and influence thought leaders and global communities.

Sociologists love group selection, I think because they are more influenced by emotive evaluations of human impulses.

You don't need gene chips to see genetic influence in human body shape: think of Hottentot women with their steatopygous buttocks or «the elderly Indian gentleman with skinny legs and arms and no butt but this gut,» as Scherer puts it.

«Weather systems are large, and our inputs as humans are so small you'd think we'd have no influence at all,» says Ross N. Hoffman, chief scientist and vice president of research and development at Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Prior to the newly selected class there have been three cohorts and 24 Ambassadors selected that meet the program's» vision to «showcase the human face of inventors in order to inspire, inform and influence thought leaders and global community.»

«Among the numerous advances in the biomedical sciences that will influence human aging, I think we will see remarkable developments in stem cell research that will permit us to create designer organs, tailored to the individual.

Pheromones are known to influence behavior in numerous animal species, but it has for long been thought that they are not important for human behavior and social interaction.

The way we think, talk, act, remember, believe and function within a social society are all heavily influenced by the secretion of hormones from glands in the brain and body, which have been designed and refined over the course of human evolution to kick in when we need them, and deliver the beneficial effects that we all know so well.

Given that many claim humans are influencing global warming and the number of people that now are on the planet I do not know how a thinking person can not see that most of us have to change our focus on consuming animal products.

Organized religion should not influence what you think / feel or expect of another human being.

In general, one would think school quality would change rather slowly, thus being a fairly minor influence on quality - adjusted growth in human capital.

To sum up, complex thought identifies the migrant as a human in that it enhances the own life and spirit (transcendence), without having a negative influence in the life of other migrants and human beings.

Much of the thinking at the time was influenced by J. McVicker Hunt's Intelligence and Experience and Benjamin Bloom's Stability and Change in Human Characteristics, both of which questioned the popular view that intelligence was immutable.

During this lesson from the Equality and Human Rights Commission students start to think about how their attitudes and opinions are influenced.

This lesson uses resources from Chapter 1 of Holocaust and Human Behavior to prompt students to explore how the ways they think about themselves and others are influenced by society.