Sentences with phrase «less conscientious»

If being reared by conscientious parents makes children with one kind of temperament more conscientious and those with another kind of temperament less conscientious, then parents might have an influence after all, even in the absence of main effects.

The same results also rule out the possibility that being reared by conscientious parents makes children less conscientious on average.

These games and services could also disappear or change ownership, and the new owners might be less conscientious about respecting their customers» presumed right to privacy.

Those at higher - performing charter schools deemed themselves less conscientious, less self - controlled and less gritty than lower - achieving peers at district public schools.

If we understand non-response as a proxy for conscientiousness or effort, then Albert has found that students become more conscientious when they have teachers who are more conscientious and less conscientious when they have teachers who are less conscientious.

But when Metro Man decides to fake his own death and go into seclusion, it becomes MegaMind's duty to fight an even less conscientious villain for control of Metro City.

Hawaii school - children rated by their teachers in the 1960's as less conscientious had worse global health status as adults and had significantly greater obesity, high cholesterol, and increased risk for cardiovascular disease.

As the graph below shows, the relationship between conscientiousness and openness to experience I suggested above is what we find in the data — those who are high on conscientiousness and those who are low on openness are the least likely to support Scottish independence, and as people become less conscientious and more open to experience support for independence rises.

Where a less conscientious scholar might simply have dismissed this subculture as a realm of kooks, obsessives and the certifiably insane, worthy only of jeering ridicule, Barkun patiently discusses each book and Web site, tracing the elaboration of ever more fantastic theories.

In another study conducted by psychologists Jane Vignovic and Lori Foster Thompson that focused solely on electronic communication, writers of the message were found to «be less conscientious, intelligent and trustworthy when the message contained many grammatical errors.»

Not exact matches

When other traits were taken into account, such as health and intelligence, results showed people who were more conscientious, extroverted and less neurotic earned significantly more than others.

«It appears that more beautiful workers earn more, not because they are beautiful, but because they are healthier, more intelligent, and have better (more conscientious and extraverted, and less neurotic) personality,» the study reads.

Surely, however, the demands of conscience should not be gerrymandered by the availability of people who very well may be less enlightened and conscientious.

The rest have been imperfect men — some impressively conscientious, others less so — with whom their fellow citizens had to work as best they could.

Again, the crisis of the religious right does not stem from the differences between the reluctant «lesser of two evils» voters and the «do not do evil that good may result» conscientious objectors.

Those who think an amended C - 14, with some regulatory tightening and some provision for religious or conscientious objection, is what even opponents of the bill should now aim at, as the lesser of evils, should think again.

By requiring them positively to opt out of such surveys, the content of which seems to be less than clear to the parents anyway, parental consent is made the rule, with conscientious objection being the exception.

Not surprisingly, the more conscientious the person who buys for a family is, the less likely he or she is to buy soda pop, cookies, or crackers.

Yet we are compelled to make conscientious decisions as consumers, and try to adhere to a «less is more» principle when it comes to purchases, as well as avoiding plastic unless it's absolutely necessary

People who are more conscientious tend to have better health habits and less stress, which protects them from disease.

The analysis also revealed consistent differences in personality traits between first - borns and later - borns — first - borns tended to be more extroverted, agreeable and conscientious, and had less anxiety than later - borns, for example — but those differences were «infinitesimally small,» amounting to a correlation of 0.02, Roberts said.

Thanks to Y7, my balance has improved, I'm stronger — which has made my other workouts more productive — my whole body has tightened, I'm more conscientious of what I eat and drink, I sleep better and I'm less ready to spontaneously combust like an angry human pimple in anxiety - thick situations.

Patton plays Brea, a conscientious Sacramento newspaper reporter whose style - over-substance editor (William Fichtner) has grown impatient with her deep investigative process and wants to let Brea go — on her birthday, no less.

In this type of environment, test scores and grades of less able students who are good in computation, attentive in class, willing to help, and conscientious about completing all assignments carefully in the prescribed manner will often be as high as the test scores and grades of students who are genuinely talented in mathematics.

Hemingway countered with A Moveable Feast, in which he criticized Stein's writing for its use of «repetitions that a more conscientious and less lazy writer would have put in the waste basket.»

Spain - Owen said conscientious dog owners should not be pun - ished because of those less considerate.

What follows here, then, is a sprint through some of the artistic and curatorial highlights and low points, in search of commonalities, contradictions, and the ultimate conclusions to be drawn from three very different iterations of more or less the same idea: wresting art from the thrall of the market and restoring it to a conscientious existence.

AGWers don't seem to realize that the worst conceivalbe AGW scenario is much less scary than the result ot a conscientious effort to FIGHT global warming.

Using the terms of the differential exposure - reactivity model [23], conscientious group member tend to identify and avoid predictable interpersonal stressors [28], to preserve harmonious interpersonal relations and thus they are less likely to be exposed to the stress associated with relationship conflict.

The problems that most consumers experience derive specifically, in almost all cases, I would argue, not from the set - up of the system per se, but invariably, as the results of the actions of individual real estate sales representatives vis a vis shifty behaviours / tactics spawned from less than conscientious mental equipment on their (the offending Realtors) parts.

Even landlords and tenants of single - family rentals who are conscientious about the home's upkeep will be less likely to invest in the property than owner - occupants, Rohe notes.