Sentences with phrase «less influenced by»

For most people, the decision to buy or sell is less influenced by the financial markets, and much more influenced by what's happening in their lives: a new job, marriage, divorce, or the birth — or departure — of children, said Greg McBride, an analyst with Bankrate.com.

As this study used only the CBCL externalizing subscale that is comprised of few behaviors that may be directly attributed to chronic illness, it is less influenced by bias in reporting or interpretation of somatic symptoms than some other CBCL subscales.

Schizophrenia patients showed lower empathic accuracy than controls, and their empathic accuracy was less influenced by the emotional expressivity of the target.

In contrast to earlier reports of positive associations between shared goals and marital satisfaction (Hwang, 2004; Kaplan & Maddux, 2002), our measure of shared selves was not significantly related to marital quality, which may be because our measure is less influenced by perceptions of relationship quality.

This is somewhat consistent with the suggestion that conduct problems in high CU children are less influenced by coercive parental responding to this behavior, including harsh discipline and criticism [58, 64, 65].

«The judicial branch is much less influenced by special interests such as the fossil fuel industry,» Hansen told The Atlantic in 2012.

It would seem to me that if you want to argue that «skeptics» are, as a group, less influenced by identity and emotion in their reasoning about climate change than «realists,» you should be able to design some kind of mechanistic hypothesis for why that is the case, come up with some experiment methodology for collecting and analyzing data that would support your theory, and then collect the data and write it up.

Second, Democrats» beliefs about global climate change might be more crystallized and thus less influenced by subtle manipulations, consistent with research showing that stronger attitudes are more resistant to change (Krosnick and Smith 1994).

But as experimental studies show, it's possible to disable or blunt culture's heuristic influence: when people's cultural identities are affirmed, they don't experience the threatening affective response, or are less influenced by it, as they consider information that challenges beliefs that pre-dominate in their group; when they can't discern a consistent connection between the cultural identity of advocates and positions on some risk issue, they can't simply adopt the position of the advocate whom they perceive as having values most like theirs.»

If not corrected for the above influence, it will show too much cooling after major eruptions, while the reconstruction of Moberg has a reduced impact of tree rings vs. other proxies, thus is less influenced by them.

However, in comparison with Nathaniel Hill and Walter Osborne, Kavanagh was far less influenced by Impressionism, and showed little enthusiasm for plein - air painting.

The Op Art people like Anuszkiewicz and Stanczak are more or less influenced by Albers, who is coming right out of the Bauhaus.»

Part II: Unreasonable Sized Paintings at SVA Chelsea Gallery does not, in this instance, refer to unorthodox variations in canvas shape or size, but rather to particular occasions where painters, who otherwise produce larger works, feel compelled to make paintings approximately within this modest scale — occasions that are often less influenced by reason than by the need to concretize, without limitation, pure emotion or spontaneous thoughts.

Yet differences emerged: the Bay Area abstractionists were less influenced by European tendencies of the time and more by Asian culture, the ethos of the Beat generation, and the expansiveness and new social freedom of California life.

Midwestern artists seem more likely to develop their own individual and idiosyncratic ways, less influenced by current trends.

Demonstration of low serum cobalamin is the more useful finding, since it is less influenced by diet and coprophagia and appears to relate more to the severity of clinical disease

It very well could be what many people call a «non-genetic» (but by which I personally mean low heritability) trait, one that is less influenced by genes and more influenced by environment — including the biochemical environment in the uterus.»

It occurred to me that I should perhaps set out my decision tree beforehand so that I will be less influenced by an emotional reaction to new information.

They are less influenced by MPT's push for diversification.

(I'm going to highlight medians instead of averages from here on because they are less influenced by the extremes.

Annuity pricing is much less influenced by interest rates than most people think.

It was far less influenced by the ideas of Taylor and his colleagues and far more influenced by the ideas of Peter Drucker and other post-war thinkers who were interested in the advantages to be enjoyed by companies willing to entertain the abandonment of the mass - production industrial age system in favor of professional forms of work organization better suited to competition based on the generation and application of new knowledge.

One reason could be that they are less engrained and therefore less influenced by the culture of an organisation, or it may be that they are more likely to spot misconduct at work as they look at information with a «fresh pair of eyes».

We can not say for sure with our data, but it may be that parents are more likely to support charter schools in heavily unionized states, perhaps in a desire for more local control and less bureaucracy, or a desire for curricular and personnel policies that are less influenced by the union.

«The new film is less influenced by stop - motion movies than it is by Akira Kurosawa,» the director said, via The Film Stage, and added: «I really liked these TV Christmas specials in America... I always liked the creatures in the Harryhausen - type films, but really these American Christmas specials were probably the thing that really made me want to do it.»

Curiously, the film seems less influenced by Raiders Of The Lost Ark than another Steven Spielberg event movie, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, from which it filches the primo trailer - hanging - off - the - cliff sequence, minus the hair - trigger suspense (and, of course, the dinosaurs — boy, could this movie use some dinosaurs).

As far as our influences go, I'd go on record as saying we're far less influenced by video games than people would expect!

«The thing about growing up in the Soviet Union was that the choices were relatively limited; natural sciences were highly respected and less influenced by propaganda and politics than other fields.

It seems that men are therefore less influenced by the opinions of others when assessing a party programme.

«As we age and gain more autonomy, our behavior is driven more by our own genetic liabilities and we are less influenced by the familial environment.»

As a result, participants were less influenced by the apparent competence of the reviewer, which would have been based on viewing a picture of him or her, and more by the actual content of the review.

When the foundation severed ties, its decision was less influenced by the removal of Jewish scientists from major posts than by the destabilising effect that this and other political interventions had on the general research climate.

Newborn baby clothes still tend to be less influenced by urban style than clothing for toddlers and older children.

They returned to their own country more or less influenced by the modern ideas acquired during their years of study in Egypt.

People of a skeptical disposition commonly suppose that because modern science has provided them with a reason to disbelieve the claims of religion, or because they think it has, modern science must therefore be the generating force behind secularization itself ¯ that historical progression, evident in the West since the Renaissance, in which habits and institutions are less and less influenced by religious doctrine.

«They no longer have to prove to Protestants that they are evangelical,» he observes, «and as their numbers increase and they move farther away from their origins in North America, they are less influenced by fundamentalism.»

Indeed there are indications that those most formed by the theory are less likely to see reasons for giving to others than are those less influenced by it.

Historically, small churches are on the fringe of denominational attention and thus are less influenced by central decisions than are larger parishes.

People who are nervous about money backed by a central bank with unclear controls — such as China's — have become attracted to bitcoin, an open source currency that is less influenced by the state of the economy or any looming geopolitical risk.

In other words, these revenue resources are less influenced by changes in prices.

Not exact matches

A marketer or salesperson can influence a customer into buying the latest version of an item instead of the less - expensive current model by highlighting the new features on the latest version and displaying the latest product pages.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

The legislation is stricter and offers far less clarity than expected: it expands the definition of state - owned enterprises (SOEs) to include any company that is «influenced, directly or indirectly» by a foreign power or, for that matter, any person under government direction.

By then, the power and influence of its members were nothing less than extraordinary: nearly half of the class had already climbed to the titles of chairman, CEO, or chief operating officer.

Sandberg's post came less than a week after The New York Times and The Observer of London reported that Cambridge Analytica, a political data company created by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, gathered users» Facebook data and claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.

They are also less likely to be influenced negatively by the mass media.

When you know what you own, you're far less likely to be influenced by the actions of others and take your cues from the stock price.

These widely used measures of house prices are all less than fully satisfactory in that the quarterly movements are influenced by compositional changes and contain significant lags in recording transactions; the lags arise because most standard indices record prices as at the date a transaction is settled, which is well after the price was determined by agreement on a contract.

Bill Adams, PNC senior international economist, and Bill Stone, chief investment strategist for PNC Asset Management, explain how China's economy affects the United States and why our own stock market ups and downs are influenced less by China than many people think.

Any societal influence that is strong enough to be «felt deeply» by children who are destined to become homosexual is also going to be felt by children whose sexual orientation is less certain.