Sentences with phrase «known psychological fact»

It's a known psychological fact that very often the victims of a con will be the most vociferous defenders of the con artists - they are now defending their own reputation and self - image, no longer mere facts of «does this snake oil work or not?».

Perhaps because it is a well - known psychological fact that it's the most incompetent who are the most confident of their abilities and the most intelligent who are full of doubt.

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The fact is that we have whole industries employing the most advanced scientific and psychological skills to promote institutionalized deceit, not only the advertising and public relations industry, but manufacturers who rely on deceptive packaging and planned obsolescence, and the drug companies who promote drugs before they know what the side effects may be.

In fact, thanks to a flurry of studies on spanking, we know that corporal punishment has a host of negative psychological consequences for kids.

When they don't breastfeed it's always because they «don't know the facts», or «haven't persevered», or have physical and / or psychological challenges that can be «easily overcome».

Turns out there are some health and psychological benefits of coloring, a fact that children may instinctively know (like so many other life lessons we should learn from our kids!).

Marco has been suffering from a recurring dream — a dream that Shaw wasn't the hero of the hour, but in fact, had been the subject of an extreme psychological make - over, in which all of the troop had their brains «re-wired» to believe the events as instructed, while still under the control of a force they know not the motive of.

Aside from that energy, the weekly chapters are generally priced lower than a comic, and it's a basic psychological fact that most people will be more comfortable spending 99 cents four weeks in a row than spending $ 3.99 all at once, no matter how much they get for the money.

But though the facts of Stalin's reign are well known, this biography reveals a Stalin we have never seen before as it illuminates the vast foundation - human, psychological and physical - that supported and encouraged him, the men and women who did his bidding, lived in fear of him and, more often than not, were betrayed by him.

Peyton herself owes a debt to the great portrait painter Alice Neel, known for her incisive psychological studies, and in fact paid homage to Neel with a nude image of the artist (referencing Neel's own famous nude self - portrait at age 80.)

I don't claim to know anything about social or psychological sciences to elaborate, but this might just be a consequence of the fact that climate change operates on timescales much larger than a political term or the time it takes to schedule your son's soccer practice.

Zuckerberg, on the other hand, has to deal with the fact that people know Facebook has a history of psychological testing on unwitting humans.

This is a major psychological and technical threshold and — if it is reached — we will no doubt see some volatility post break based both on the fact that many people will likely take profits on shorter - term holdings while others will likely pick up fresh positions on the assumption that we should see some follow - through above the $ 10,000 level.

boxes that highlight some of the lesser - known facts about the body and its contribution to psychological well - being.

All truth is God's truth, and although the modern psychological concepts and interventions are considered theoretical in nature, we know as a fact that Scripture is inerrant and is profitable for correction and instruction.