Sentences with phrase «natural human behavior»

This is natural human behavior and knee - jerk reaction at its best.

Is it alarming that the AAP uses flawed studies to strongly recommend against a natural human behavior?

Keeping score (leader boards, result tabulations, rankings, etc.) and comparing ourselves to others is natural human behavior that social media and the ubiquitous connectivity of the web have exploded to dimensions we never anticipated.

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Indeed, up to 95 % of human behavior happens at a subconscious level, leading to «gut decisions» which is the most natural way to make a decision.

He is also aware that he has a natural knack for human behavior and market trends, which he bets on heavily.

Every observed human behavior is «natural».

This need to have answers is what drives research and study of natural phenomenon, human behavior, the origin of the universal, and so on.

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.

If you search the Coursera website on «evolution», you will see that «Evolution: A Course for Educators» taught by instructors from the American Museum of Natural History» and «Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)» taught by professors at the University of Maryland both start in June.

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.

But yes, it's quite natural for primates (like humans) to engage in such behavior.

In their writing on education, Deci and Ryan proceed from the principle that humans are natural learners and children are born creative and curious, «intrinsically motivated for the types of behaviors that foster learning and development.»

Their thinking is clouded by the «natural fallacy» — a belief that natural is always better, and that human behavior is not natural.

Cosleeping remains a cross-cultural human universal, a species - wide behavior, an expectable and physiologically normal sleeping arrangement likely designed by natural selection to maximize infant survival and well - being.

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.

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.

Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

That is, natural - seeming social behavior was fine when coming from a human, or from a computer following a script.

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.

Why do you think few scientists have looked at human behavior through the lens of evolution and natural selection?

A Yale - led research team has adapted traditional asset valuation approaches to measure the value of such natural capital assets, linking economic measurements of ecosystem services with models of natural dynamics and human behavior.

We quantify the changing value of natural stocks by linking economic measurements of ecosystem services — the income to society depending on nature — with models of natural dynamics and human behavior.

«A critical strength of our approach,» said Joshua Abbott, a contributing author from ASU, «is that it combines natural science about resources and social science about human behavior to account for benefits derived from nature.

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

The DHS researchers on the TechSolutions programme and in the Human Factors / Behavior Science Division hope to record the brain's natural activity during periods of calm or alertness.

Science - fisheries, natural resource management, fish behavior, fish biology, conservation; education - science, grades 6 - 12, biology, citizen science, public participation in research, model and systems thinking, evidence - based reasoning; social science - communication, anthropology, human dimensions, risk perception / communication.

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.

I proved during my research study that wild chimpanzees that are habituated to human observers on the ground are tolerant to, and most importantly do not alter their natural behaviors in the presence of, human observers in the canopy.»

Maybe you heard about the «caveman diet,» in which people think that it's most natural to eat according to human behavior based on what humans could hunt and gather.

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.

Told with an eye for natural beauty and a keen understanding of human behavior, Granik's first narrative feature since her Oscar - nominated Ozarks thriller Winter's Bone is a more intimate, less grisly affair but it still packs an emotional wallop.

This is a natural «hunt and seek» knowledge gathering behavior in humans, triggered by a good metaphor.

It happens for very natural reasons that are endemic in human behavior.

Positive feedback loops and natural human tendencies toward herd behavior keep the process going until a point of excess is reached and the debt becomes a major problem.

Doggy adaptations that result in inappropriate expression of natural behavior can block or tear the human - animal bond if owners view those adaptations in human terms.

This study sheds new light on anthropomorphism — the natural human tendency to interpret animal behavior in human terms, Horowitz said.

When a human is diagnosed with an illness or medical condition, getting a second opinion is often a natural behavior.

Many dog training problems are often just natural behaviors that are unacceptable in human society.

On an episode of «Cesar 911,» I used a herding dog's natural instincts to stop her destructive behavior — but I didn't have the humans actually use herding to do it.

When you are attempting to change natural parrot behaviors, you are often battling very deep - seated, ingrained behaviors that were not «learned» in the way «bad» behaviors are sometimes the result of learning and experience in humans.

Cats need to be able to perform natural behaviors (scratching, hiding, having their own space, etc.) and have control over their interactions with humans and other animals.

I wish people knew that a cat's behavior isn't about the human but that cats are usually just trying to satisfy their basic needs for safety and security, stimulation thru environmental enrichment, and their natural instincts like hunting and scratching.

Using behavior modification techniques (rather than human oriented punishment methods) that play to your cat's natural behaviors is the way to a better relationship with your cat.

These are their natural behaviors and we need to teach them how to live with us humans and how to control these natural impulses.

Some dogs do lick humans to show affection, despite it not being a natural dog behavior.

Not only that, but chewing is a very natural doggie behavior, whether we humans like it or not.

In this article, you will find some background on this condition and some tips on what you can do to discourage your dog from taking part in this very common and natural behavior that humans typically find to be quite disgusting.

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.

Since people have invited dogs into their human homes, and since people (and not dogs) consider some dog behaviors to be inappropriate and unacceptable, then people should do their best to understand and respect dogs as dogs and to try and understand their point of view, yet to teach them how to express their natural dogginess in a manner that does not frustrate or offend their human housemates.

Once they join a human family, the rules about behavior change and their natural ways of communication can get lost along the way.