Sentences with phrase «natural as this behavior»

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It turns out that even those who stress particular negotiation behaviors and attitudes see those things not as hollow gambits but as the natural performance traits of the smarter negotiator you must become — by way of better preparation, rational thinking, and so on.

The AA program seeks to reverse this catastrophic farrago by rewriting the mental pathways of the addict using his residual spiritual notions to restore God as the ultimate witness to his behavior, coaxing him to live again in harmony with his given nature and natural limits.

As an example of something that is genetic and natural but which we would all say is wrong: alcoholism (this isn't an attempt to put homosexuality with alcoholism; it is simply an attempt to create a class of behavior which we would all easily agree is both natural, genetic, and wrong).

This insight explains the vehemence of his attack upon the German quest for the historical Jesus, just as it illuminates his behavior» during his first years at Lambaréné, when he ransacked the intellectual storehouses of the world's religions in order to find some way to conceive of an affirmation of the world that was not merely mindless hedonism, a way that could motivate a powerful urge toward human betterment, toward perfection within the structures of natural existence.

The Stoics spoke of certain ways of behavior as being «natural» because they believed these activities were consistent with the nature of things.

I'm afraid that I am following a personal pattern of behavior in which I set the bar too high for others (and myself), and then get upset when others just do what comes natural as human beings.

The image of God as a supernatural being, who from time to time intervenes in the affairs of the natural world in clearly recognizable ways, and who can suspend or reverse the usual behavior of natural phenomena, if He so wishes, in order to perform His will, is one which has become less and less tenable as the new world has emerged.

Unable to perform any of her natural behaviors, the sow goes mad and exhibits compulsive, neurotic «stereotypical» behaviors such as bar - biting and purposeless chewing.

For to do good only to those who do good to us, to be kind only to those who are kind to us, means acting as the sinners and heathen also do, that is, it is the behavior of the natural, selfish man.

Thanks to animal - welfare experts such as Temple Grandin, livestock - handling systems are now designed to complement and soothe the natural behavior of cattle.

Caged hens also suffer from the denial of many natural behaviors such as nesting, perching, and dustbathing, all important for hen welfare.

In a paper published in the journal Behavioral Sciences and the Law, scientists at the University of Colorado School Medicine note that, all too often, the «sensational media attention» surrounding CTE «divorce discussion of CTE from the well - established natural history and typically favorable prognosis of mTBI,» while, at the same time, such reports - and the scientific reports about CTE to which they are connected - imply direct connections between complex, multi-determined behaviors such as murder and / or suicide and mTBIs occurring in the remote past of individuals engaging in those behaviors.»

Maybe if we accepted this behavior as normal instead of viewing it as problem, we could relax into their natural rhythm and flow and let go of the sleep battle altogether.

Definition: Natural consequences to children are things that happen as a result of behavior (or lack of it) with no interference by an adult.

It's natural to get angry with how difficult our kids are and label their behavior and attitude as a negative — something we need to fix in them.

Children are not shown a model of behavior, and natural consequences act as the only control.

Despite being a natural rite of passage for small children, behaviors can also be brought on or exacerbated by what babies consider dramatic life changes, such as:

Clingy behavior, as renowned University of Minnesota attachment researcher Alan Sroufe explained to me, is absolutely natural.

Explain the natural consequences for disrespectful behavior such as, «Disrespectful children often have trouble making friends.»

As children struggle with these important tasks parents must be able to provide praise and encouragement for achievement but parents must also be able to allow them to sometimes experience the natural consequences for their behavior or provide logical consequences to help them learn from mistakes.

Behavior Redirection, also referred to as behavior modification, uses a child's natural interests (cars, food, movies, storybook characters, movement, games, etc) along with a system of natural consequences, obtainable goals, and rewards to encourage Behavior Redirection, also referred to as behavior modification, uses a child's natural interests (cars, food, movies, storybook characters, movement, games, etc) along with a system of natural consequences, obtainable goals, and rewards to encourage behavior modification, uses a child's natural interests (cars, food, movies, storybook characters, movement, games, etc) along with a system of natural consequences, obtainable goals, and rewards to encourage success.

As your child moves through the preschool years, behavior that seemed natural and even expected of a toddler — clinging to your leg when a stranger approaches, weeping over every good - bye, refusing to join group activities — may seem less acceptable now.

This Lactational amenorrhea has been used as an imperfect form of natural contraception, with a greater than 98 % effectiveness during the first six months after birth if specific nursing behaviors are followed.

Although genes are recognized as influencing behavior and cognition, «genetically identical» does not mean altogether identical; almost no one would deny that identical twins, despite being natural human clones with identical DNA, are separate people, with separate experiences and not altogether overlapping personalities.

Some, like bats, are unfairly maligned; others are adored despite shocking behavior, such as Adélie penguins, whose sex lives were considered so depraved that, in 1915, London's Natural History Museum boldly marked a paper about the birds» mating behavior as «Not for Publication.»

Before he was universally known for his theory of natural selection, the young naturalist made a decision that has long been hailed as the type of behavior that fundamentally separates humans from other apes.

More recently, a report by Kevin N. Laland of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and his colleagues in Nature Reviews Genetics, building on an earlier proposal by Robert Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Peter J. Richerson of U.C. Davis, argued that human culture, defined as any learned behavior, including technology, has been the dominant natural selection force on modern humans.

Endocannabinoids, natural compounds in the brain that excite the same receptors as marijuana, influence gender - specific behaviors, according to a study published in November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Marshall suggests that it also emphasizes the importance of considering broader environmental contexts, such as predation risk, as well as the perceptual abilities of natural observers like predators in studies of animal behavior.

Old arguments over evolution and natural selection have descended to debates on the dynamics of speciation, or how particular behaviors, such as altruistic cooperation, have emerged from the laws of individual competition.

Trained as an evolutionary psychologist, Harrison suggests that the forces of natural selection may play a part in creating this behavior.

He suggested that natural selection could encourage altruistic behavior among kin so as to improve the reproductive potential of the «family.»

Since its establishment in 2012, the Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection has received several major grants from the federal government, as well as international institutions and agencies, to investigate oil behaviors in the environment.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

Other treatment options with limited effectiveness involve mechanical methods, such as drone - brood trapping or freezing, or natural methods, such as dusting colonies with powdered sugar to increase the bees» grooming behaviors, which results in mite removal.

«So a lot of the natural migratory behavior was stopped because of that, and then as we let the population come back, these behaviors are starting to show up again.»

If you would engage in such behavior, it may seem natural that other people would as well, making conspiracies appear more plausible and widespread.

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

Although previous research has identified genes involved with behaviors seen in eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia, little is known about how natural variation in these genes could affect eating behaviors in healthy people.

Currently physicians see the disorder as an extreme within the natural variability of human behavior.

Though the scientists don't know if such individual and pack behavior is a common occurrence, observations like these on Isle Royale provide insight into how animal societies function as well as the vicissitudes of the food chain cycle on Isle Royale, also helping to inform other models of the natural world.

The dolphins demonstrate such spectacular natural behaviors as «porpoising» - leaping high in the air at top speed - or «fishwhacking,» stunning prey (or, here, a beach ball) with a sharp blow.

The team exploited the natural behavior of the organism — which is to attach by its cilia to a smooth surface, such as a microscope glass cover.

But overall, the message of the studies this year is that «human activity changes the likelihood and behaviors of extreme events, and our ability as a scientific community to adequately (and convincingly) disentangle the human - caused factors from the underlying natural variability continues to improve,» Kossin said.

The paper draws on scientific studies to recommend ways to reduce disease impacts, such as limiting the mixing of bees between colonies and supporting natural bee behaviors that provide disease resistance.

It is not deprivation at all, it is completely natural and our evolutionary biology was designed around inconsistent food availability so I see not eating as a very fundamental core competency of humans, certainly not a risky / dangerous behavior.

Does it add an idea that, perhaps, altering our minds is actually part of the natural world, and the fact that it is a behavior that can be seen in other species serves to show that perhaps it is not as destructive as some out there might lead us to believe?

Unfortunately, this is quite natural as Russian ladies can follow this stereotyped behavior quite frequently.

Their behavior — a mixture of scripted and improvised — springs from a natural place, and while that can be uncomfortable as well as funny, it never rings phony or plastic.

While Swerdlow's film feels predominantly comedic — aiming to depict the junky's behavior as childish and pathetic — it's only natural that for the actors involved, the experience was sometimes painful, forcing them to relive moments from their past that they'd rather not.