Sentences with phrase «innate tendencies in»

Cats may be exploiting «innate tendencies in humans to respond to cry - like sounds in the context of nurturing offspring», McComb says.

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The research that Farrington drew on didn't show any evidence of specific interventions changing a student's innate level of grit, but there was plenty of evidence that students» tendency to persevere at academic tasks was highly responsive to changes in school and classroom contexts.

Understanding a child temperament is the first step toward enhancing his self - esteem because you will be able to deliver praise sensitively in accordance with his innate tendencies and help him build upon those traits in a positive way.

Most of those holding this vision would probably rule out a world led by women as being something unrealistic and unnatural, because of a supposed innate tendency to focus on family and caring activities rather than engaging in competitive, aggressive and confrontational interactions typical of politics.

The answer, of course, has a lot to do with changing perceptions of anxiety, and in particular our tendency to treat as a disease what used to be viewed as an innate tendency — or even a moral failing.

This tendency held true for both groups, despite different rearing histories, suggesting that their disinclination to barter is innate, says Sarah Brosnan of Georgia State University, the lead researcher in this study.

The degree to which this innate tendency to appreciate the taste of salt is modified by subsequent experience is a research area ripe for further investigation, particularly because high salt intake has been implicated in the development and / or maintenance of elevated blood pressure.

I feel there's a growing emphasis in U.S. education on making learning fun; studies show there's also a relative tendency to emphasize innate talent (rather than hard work) when it comes to academics.

In fact, I've found that it seems to be almost an innate human tendency to become overly - focused on finding «another trading opportunity» right after winning a trade.

People seem to have an innate tendency to be drawn to complex and confusing trading systems; it seems to be in our human nature.

What types of systems can we put in place to overcome our innate tendency to allow our emotions to rule our financial world?

Through their formative years, the twins will become entrenched in their respective innate tendencies or adapt according to the examples they observe.

They can be more pronounced in some dogs than in others but all have an innate tendency towards it.

Even just - hatched young are much more active than other hatchling Pituophis, and this innate tendency to «keep moving» may be an artifact of inbreeding amongst a small, insular population, or may have evolved as a beneficial behavior for feeding or predator evasion in their native habitat.

Twenty or so amino acids might lie in simple, long, and inert strings, were it not for the strings» innate tendency to fold themselves into myriad shapes that are the proteins supporting life.

Some of these seem to be linked by a shared emotional basis: the «endowment effect» (overvaluation of what we already have), «status quo bias» (an emotional preference for maintaining the status quo), and «loss aversion» (the tendency to attribute much more weight to potential losses than potential gains when assessing risk) are all related to an innate conservatism about what we feel we have already invested in.

While leadership skills can be acquired traits, an innate tendency to lead will serve you better in a position of power within a company.

From this perspective, social adversity and perceived threat in childhood should upregulate the innate immune system, a system that provides immediate defense against infection, and enhance pro-inflammatory response tendencies as a way to prepare for potential impending tissue damage and infection.

'' * Attention Please Leave Me A Voice Mail If You Call * Regardless of our individual differences, we as humans have an innate tendency to think irrationally and engage in acts of self - defeat, despite our best efforts not to.

Symptoms of ADHD may for instance reflect an innate impediment to behavioral control which could perhaps exacerbate already present antisocial tendencies in children.