Sentences with phrase «irrational behavior by»

Long ago I learned that continued irrational behavior by supposedly learned people nearly always has a single explanation: follow the money.

What purpose of love or witness does preempting irrational behavior by the government serve?

Not exact matches

Thank God I'm just a grandparent these days, without school - aged kids who are trapped in an increasingly bizarre and irrational world run by adults - mostly parents and otherwise unemployable administrators — where the rules, the procedures and the approved behaviors vary daily and the changes come so rapidly and abruptly that the characters in Alice in Wonderland would be totally jealous.

Not that I believe in good or bad luck of the stock market as it is purely driven by participant state of mind and mostly their irrational behavior.

However, the assumption of the psychotherapist is that irrational behavior can be brought under rational control by re-educating the person in healthy interpersonal relationships.

The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.»

So, «all» irrational behaviors are therefore «bad» by that definition.

It does this by creating a climate of acceptance — of feelings and impulses (around which irrational guilt often forms)-- and by confronting the young person with the need to change irresponsible, self - other hurting behavior (the source of appropriate guilt).

However, I tend to sympathize with the atheist view because of the historical irrational behavior demonstrated by groups of faith over the history of humanity.

By being members of the National Alliance for Youth Sports, parents make a statement that they want to bench irrational behavior in youth sports and they are committed to postive, safe and fun sports for all children.

It's ingenious exploitation that plays on primal fears and subconscious anxieties and actually makes irrational behavior of almost every movie teenager hunted by homicidal maniacs a defining and expressive part of the experience: they become primal elements of their nightmares.

The unpredictable and sometimes seemingly irrational behavior exhibited by young students is simply a product of their biology — the frontal cortex, the area of the brain that controls reasoning and helps us think before we act, develops much later in our development.

In my opinion the Chevy Volt is a masterpiece when judged by any standard, so I couldn't understand such irrational unreasonable behavior.

Some believe the market crash was caused by an irrational behavior on the part of investors.

By offering the discount, the company is attempting to change your behavior into doing something irrational, that benefits them at your expense.

• Tend to occur in seizure - prone breeds (e.g. beagle, Bernese mountain dog, etc.) • Often develop around puberty (8 - 10 months old); usually before 2 years of age • Discernible pre-ictal mood change (e.g. depressed, irritable or flat mood) • Behavioral event is often sudden in onset and bout - like — though bouts may cluster into a lengthy sequence • Behavior is often extreme, irrational, apparently unprovoked • Behavioral event may be triggered by stress or an environmental event (noise, flashing light) • May be associated with autonomic signs (salivation, urination, anal gland discharge) • Post-ictal depression / unresponsive or even aggression

However, owing to their strident and often irrational behavior, they are very vulnerable to not being taken seriously by males in the scientific community and viewed as undesirable for faculty or other leadership positions..

(No violence is implied by me with the Dan White Twinkies - defense reference, I'm only suggesting the idea of temporary irrational behavior.)

One of the key observations which strikes you as you study the findings of garbology, is confirmation of the theories propounded in the bestselling book «Blink» (by Malcolm Gladwell): our rational explanation for our behaviors is often merely a fictional reconstruction of what we think we should have done; our actual behavior often seems irrational and is highly dependent upon our subconscious perceptions.

High - conflict custody and visitation cases are often fueled by irrational emotional behavior, and children, exposed to high conflict... Continue reading →