Sentences with phrase «much of our human behavior»

Further, it has been a highly successful abstraction, illuminating much of our human behavior.

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As much as we may loathe the behavior of the expert flimflam man, we also have to admire his grasp of human psychology and skills of persuasion — skills it's possible to use for far more admirable ends, according to author Alexa Clay.

Socially speaking, it is much more efficient and sophisticated in the long run to understand the intricacies of human behavior than to demand one's way.

In a three - minute summary of his thesis on YouTube, Andrist explains that — so far in his research — conversations between humans and robots have become much more fluid, after the robots were programmed with proper social gaze behavior.

Finding the «why» behind customer purchasing habits and behaviors enables you to curate a much better user experience, customer experience, and human experience... yep, that's a lot of experience.

His 30,000 - foot view examines wealth management in the context of human behavior — a complement to the pragmatic, short - term, and money - centric model that drives much investor activity today.

As for Heidegger above, primordial intentionality is the Vorstruktur of a Lebenswelt; it represents a system of internal relations which is the basis for much human behavior.

The best way to bring the sinfulness of such sins home to us is to point toward the places where humans in fact act wrongly: in home, school, business, contacts with others, and the like, where by pride, self - seeking, neglect of our neighbors, ugliness of behavior in our homes, and so much else, we often behave in a reprehensible manner or we subtly and insidiously treat other persons as mere «things.»

By these methods much interesting and useful knowledge about the predictable patterns of human behavior has been gained.

And of course Paul spilled much ink about the proper treatment of slaves and the proper behavior of those slaves towards their masters without ever raising the question of whether owning another human being was morally objectionable.

Homosexual activists like the playwright Larry Kramer and the writer Gabriel Rotello, author of Sexual Ecology — an important weaving together of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics — have been ferociously attacked by their fellow gay activists for publicly acknowledging that AIDS results as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes.

For one thing, in a Jewish context «ethics» covers a much wider swath of human behavior than what most people think of when they use ethical categories.

There is great concern for the right ordering of human behavior, but much less interest in transforming the quality and character of experience.

From La Leche League's website, «Research has shown that healthy, full - term breastfeeding infants have a remarkable ability to regulate their own milk intake when they are allowed to nurse «on cue» and that mothers» rates of milk production are closely related to how much milk their babies take... Human beings have survived and flourished because mothers have met these needs by responding freely to their babies» cues and behavior, particularly their feeding behaviors.»

In terms of the goal of controlling behavior, he viewed humans, and their conditioned responses, in much the same way as he viewed the animals upon which he conducted his experiments.

Blombos Cave, South Africa: Dated to about 100,000 years ago, ochre - processing «tool kits» and other artifacts found at the site — including an engraved piece of ochre, the oldest known art of its type — suggest early humans were capable of modern, complex behaviors much earlier than once thought.

While an increase in population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a challenge, especially since the bulk of that growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real problem may not be human numbers so much as human behavior.

But it also recalls Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and the understanding that what makes us human is as much our behavior — and our thoughts — as it is our anatomy.

According to the Australian researchers, current apprehension about human - animal co-sleeping and bed sharing between parents and their children focuses too much on possible negative aspects or consequences, such as poor health, impaired functioning, the development of problematic behavior, and even sexual dysfunction.

In a study published last fall, researchers showed that male prairie voles that had been separated from their female partners for four days — a much shorter amount of separation time than researchers had previously found to affect the voles» physiology — exhibited depressionlike behavior and had increased levels of corticosterone, the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.

Only about 5 million years ago human beings and chimps shared a common ancestor, and we still have much behavior in common: namely, a long period of infant dependency, a reliance on learning what to eat and how to obtain food, social bonds that persist over generations, and the need to deal as a group with many everyday conflicts.

The question is, how much of it is due to human behavior?»

Patricia A. Martin - DeLeon, a reproductive biologist at the University of Delaware, has witnessed this behavior many times in her studies of fertility in mice, the closest genetic model to humans (and with a much faster reproductive cycle).

In humans, much, if not most of same - sex sexual behavior occurs in those who don't identify as homosexual.»

Understanding human behavior and culture is something the researchers value as much as analyzing the chemical and geological environment and Tankersley says that without this holistic approach much of research is left unsolved or misguided, in his opinion.

These people live much as their ancestors did for thousands of years, so the scientists reasoned that these people's sleep habits reflect prehistoric human behavior.

«I was able to gain a much deeper understanding of the relationships between human flexible behavior and the underlying involvement of human neurological processes,» says Dutra, who earned a fellowship from the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates to be involved in the study.

And while the origins of modern human behavior have been widely debated, there has been much less discussion about the evolution of modern human anatomy.

Humans follow the example of prestigious, high - status individuals much more readily than that of others, such as when we copy the behavior of village elders, community leaders, or celebrities.

To date, there has been much research that's observed socially contagious behaviors in humans and animals, but scientists are just starting to look into what makes them ripple through groups of people.

«Nature found a reward system that seeks for sugar and accumulates sugar as much as it can; certainly this system is still functional in humans, and although we have this excess provision of sugar in the market, it's still driving our behaviors in some way or another.»

Here, the OkCupid team would post insights and analysis they observed on their dating service, much of which delved very deeply into the human psyche and shed light on behaviors and patterns we all see in social behavior.

An excerpt from Magnolia's description of the film says: «Following a long fascination with [Scientology] and with much experience in dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behavior, the beguilingly unassuming Louis Theroux won't take no for an answer when his quest to enter the Church's headquarters is turned down.

And Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) finds himself in the middle of them as he gets much more than he bargained for when he is selected to evaluate how well a newly developed artificial intelligence represents human intellect and behavior.

If one were to take out the pre-existing home video clips of gross - out human and animal behavior, there probably isn't much more than an hour of actual movie here.

But there is much more on the films plate than simply laughing - to - prevent - from - crying at the current state of America, the film delves into life philosophy, behavior etiquette in the modern world and simple human dignity in ways that only a good comedy can.

The book «The Paradox of Choice» outlined human behavior when confronted with too much choice... often no choice at all is made.

Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by «rational man» models of human behavior from economics and too little by «foolish man» models from psychology and real - world experience.»

This is because the predominant variable of the markets — human behavior — doesn't change very much from generation to generation, even if the environment around us does.

Dogs have a language all of their own and it has been passed down from generation to generation, much like we humans pass down our behavior to our children and their children and so on.

By coming at everything from the dog's perspective, we as humans can more quickly figure out the cause of «bad» behavior and much more quickly figure out solutions that will work to make everyone in the equation happy.

Much to the dismay of humans, stool eating is a normal behavior in which many dogs engage.

But as much as this behavior leads to disgusting reactions from humans, the act of eating feces is not typically an abnormal behavior among canines.

They say our canine companions have been rewarded so much over thousands of years for approaching distressed humans that the behavior could be hardwired into their brains.

Though this sounds like it studies the behavior of veterinarians as much as animals, the focus of the Academy is «creating, maintaining, and strengthening the human - animal bond.»

Most adult dogs give young puppies a lot of leeway in their behavior, much as we humans do with toddlers.

However, scientific studies have shown that dogs are much better than wolves — and indeed, the best of any animals — at interpreting human behavior.

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)?

As I said before, much of what is known about polar bear behavior has been through some human observation, but for the most part, their activities have been based on assumptions.

Researchers hope that by knowing exactly what certain species of animals are up to, they can understand them much more thoroughly - and possibly even predict behavior and reduce human - animal conflicts, revolutionizing the way we interact with and manage wildlife.