Sentences with phrase «meaning of human behavior»

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And, it means tapping into the required research expertise needed to get true unfiltered insights into the emotions and human side of changing buying behaviors.

The Bible also tells us that the wolf will lie down with the lamb (Isaiah 11:6), meaning that once the curse of sin is removed, the animals» behavior will change and we humans will no longer need them for food and clothing.

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

Grace alone seems to have the power to free us from nature's deterministic instincts; but that doesn't mean that the wisdom and freedom to become fully human in the sense of being able to discern and choose more god - like behavior is easily achieved or sustained.

Even in the most rigorously objective study of human behavior subjective understanding is covertly introduced in identifying the meaning of the theoretical inferences.

Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning of the body and the unity of the human person as a bodily being, respect for the health and life of homosexual males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic kind of homosexual male behavior, is morally bad.

It does not reflect prevailing patterns of human behavior... If you look around carefully, you will see that most people are not really maximizers, but instead what you might call «satisfiers»: they want to satisfy their needs, and that means being in equilibrium with oneself, with other people, with society and with nature.

Modern economics is thc science of self - interest, of how to best accommodate individual behavior by means of markets and the commodification of human relations... In this economic world view, the traditional human faculty of reason gets short - changed and degraded to act as the servant of sensory desires.

The Penguin History of Economics defines economics as «a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means with alternative uses».

Mores and morals, laws and rules, religions and rituals, have all come into being in the course of human history to interpret the meaning of life and to guide behavior.

Again, though the sciences can investigate significantly many aspects of human behavior, the full meaning of human selfhood can never be discovered externally.

Rituals are forms of repetitive individual and collective behaviors that, over time, forge links between the «everyday» and the «extraordinary», therefore infusing human behavior with meaning.

The Bible is a book which includes * some * history of primitive Hebrew culture, and * some * good, practical, advice for beneficial human behavior (advice which can be gleaned in other places and by other means, btw); but mostly it is a compilation of ancient Middle Eastern historical fiction, myth, legend, superst.ition and fantasy.

In human society there is another meaning of the word «law», referring to the forms of human behavior prescribed for members of the society, whether they are actually obeyed or not.

But I believe it was hinted at in the words of a young Cambridge undergraduate who told me that what he and most of his friends aimed at in their sexual behavior were three things: permissiveness, within the range of social decency and acceptance; affection, by which he meant genuine caring and the beginning of real love; and responsibility, which he defined as readiness to stand up and take the consequences for any and every sort of human contact.

Records dating between 100,000 to 135,000 years ago from northern and southern Africa revealed snail shells that humans had poked holes in and strung in order to wear them as necklaces, Fuentes noted, saying such behaviors are signs of humans creating meaning.

I mean, here I was, part of this discipline dedicated to the study of human behavior and human diversity, and yet we knew next to nothing about a behavior that claimed one - third of our lives.

But to many people, the animal behavior perspective on art still seems like an affront to our idea of what it means to be human.

«The significant human component in the behavior of reservoirs means that physics - based modeling quickly becomes intractable in settings with large number of reservoirs.»

«The existence of a motif means our predictive model can be based on a relatively simple mathematical formula rather than on more complex econometrics that try to account for all the different types of human behavior,» says González, the Gilbert Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE).

Culture means more than just a set of learned behaviors that vary from place to place, some argued; culture means history and tradition, art, philosophy, and religion — the last barrier, together with language, that separates humans from other species.

«The deadly combination of human behavior and climate change means we will likely see more wildfires like those in 2007,» she says.

This neat behavior could mean that the birds possess so - called Theory of Mind — an ability to predict the mental state of another animal (or in other words, to theorize that this other animal has a mind), which is one of the defining traits of humans and closely related primates.

Classical conditioning is a learning process that occurs both in animals and humans alike when two stimuli are repeatedly paired (such as the bell ringing and the feeding, or a particular behavior and the electric shock), so that the response originally elicited by the second stimulus (the secretion of saliva that originally occurs in the presence of food or the unpleasant sensation that follows an electric shock) is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone (meaning that after a number of repetitions, the sound of the bell is enough to make the dog salivate like it does in the presence of food and the engagement in unwanted behavior is enough to make you feel the same discomfort an electric shock would cause).

Serotonin — also known as the happiness chemical — has long been known to contribute to feeding behavior (meaning the amount, what, and when we eat) in humans because of its activity in response to the appearance, smell, and taste of food.

Hailing from the heart of the South and cutting her teeth on the mean streets of New York, Meghan has six years of experience covering fashion, style, celebrities, culture, and human behavior.

Silvia's strengths are words, diplomacy and the subtleties of meaning, while Tobin is all about instinct, action and reading into the most primal human behaviors.

The plotting just ends up feeling like a lot of business, ideas meant to keep the characters busy and in motion rather than actually reflecting anything like human behavior.

Not just an other - worldly meditation on what it means to be human, like the more obvious thematic language suggests, but also a study of predatory behavior, and how self - awareness separates species.

We have assisted students in the completion of a varied range of topics like the meaning of arts, human behavior, creations, philosophy and means of expression with music and literature.

Many of the behaviors that are commonly attributed to «dominance» are normal dog behaviors that have been inadvertently reinforced by well - meaning humans.

The American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior suggests that «enrolling in puppy classes prior to three months of age can be an excellent means of improving training, strengthening the human - animal bond, and socializing puppies in an environment where risk of illness can be minimized».

An animal potentially dangerous to humans means any of the following: Any animal which, when unprovoked and off the property of the owner or keeper, engages in behavior that threatens the safety of a human being so that the human has to take defensive action to protect himself / herself or that person is injured.

Of course, just because a behavior is normal or natural in one situation, that doesn't mean it's acceptable in another, and little Rascal has to learn that biting / nipping humans is a no - no.

How would you characterize the state of human, and American, exposure to «natural» hazards these days, and how much of the exposure is unnatural (meaning created by our choices and behaviors)?

This does not mean that climate stabilization policies do not make sense or that policy makers should ignore influences of human - caused climate change on tropical cyclone behavior.

Here are some highlights: And when I say highlights, I mean highlights — consider this the Cliff's Notes to a day that gave way to what was an essentially nonstop stream of theorizing and pontificating about the interactions of climate science, human behavior, energy efficiency, and neuroscience.

This can mean anything from discussing Biblical passages about transformation and redemption to discussing Christian values, such as defining what is right or wrong about a particular situation and how the Christian concept of sin plays a role in relationships and human behavior.