Sentences with phrase «of human behavior as»

The markets are a lot simpler than most people think; they are really just reflections of human behavior as plotted by the price action on the charts.

To me, Haynes is one of our great directors, and with his best films, Safe (1995), Far from Heaven (2002), and I'm Not There (2007), he managed both touchingly emotional explorations of human behavior as well as structural commentaries of the same.

We have to take our interpretations of human behavior as hypotheses and test them against an ever wider range of experience.

Not exact matches

As Cialdini writes, «A well - known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason.

As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that person just did that really weird thing.

«I think there are implications in a narrow area such as judicial decision - making, as well as in a more general area of «understanding and explaining human behavior,»» says Mocan.

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 ClaAs 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 Claas 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.

Herd animals, indistinguishable lemmings, behaviorally conditioned lab rats — distasteful as those words and phrases may be — they describe the vast majority of human behavior, especially online.

Psychologists agree on a fundamental human motivation such as the need to belong, which is our emotional need to be accepted by members of a group affecting our behavior.

Which explains why Reddit is often associated less with news and more with unruly or even offensive content such as the GamerGate controversy, or even worse examples of the darker side of human behavior that have appeared there in recent years.

If god is as illogical as humans, it would explain some of the nutty behavior of those that follow him.

And if God chooses to convict us through the words of another broken human, we can easily interpret conviction as being judgmental, behavior modification, rule - making, legalism or worst of all — shame.

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.

And finally, an important observation is furnished by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from ordinary human experience to religious experience and belief as a «breaking point» to which the human organism reacts in spontaneous outbursts, and in which rudimentary modes of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15

The analytic emphasis on the deeper dynamics of human behavior and the behaviorist emphasis on regarding behavioral «symptoms» as real problems both have therapeutic validity.

Skinner declares: «As we learn more about the effects of the environment we have less reason to attribute any part of human behavior to an autonomous controlling agent.»

Below, we demonstrate the applicability of this view to the more habitual forms of human behavior, such as inattentive speech, motor habits, etc..

In becoming a model, it has engendered wide - ranging interpretation of the relationship between God and human beings; if God is seen as father, human beings become children, sin can be seen as rebellious behavior, and redemption can be thought of as restoration to the status of favored offspring.

And hard as we may try, human beings are simply incapable of any behavior that carries no bias, no moral or political persuasion.»

He even comes up with «laws» of human behavior, such as the Law of the Few, the Law of Stickiness, and the Law of Context.

As we have seen in the discussion of the etiological factors in the introductory chapters, the alcoholic is an illuminating example of the influence of the «given» on human behavior.

As inter-personal communication flows become patterned over time, a communication structure (or network) emerges, which is relatively stable and predictive of future human behavior (6)

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.

Modern understanding of human behavior and sociology recognizes morality as an emergent phenomenon.

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.

«Speech in its embryonic stages as exemplified in animal and human behavior,» he says in Modes of Thought, «varies between emotional expression and signaling» (MT 52).

To make such an overly simplistic statement as the one you made, and to say that religion is the cause of evil and war and violence reveals that you have a limited understanding of theology, as well as human behavior.

A.: I would say, without wanting to endorse this position, that as to its adequacy or fairness as a statement about the normal human condition and about the behavior of most human beings, it is unquestionably accurate.

Carey proposes that human behavior be considered as a text, with the task of the researcher being to construct a «reading» of the text.

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.»

the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role as pastor to persons.

The tragedy of human behavior is that so long as we seek to build ourselves up, to overcome our deficiencies, we in fact only spin webs around ourselves, isolate ourselves more deeply than ever from one another, and reveal our desperate need for the love of God.

In this light, the basic motivations which drive human behavior are understood as arising out of the relationship between the individual and God the Creator.

Moore proposes instead that if we accept Whitehead's conviction that as creativity operates in living things it aims at the enhancement of life, we then will interpret human behavior in terms of the will - to - life.

Likewise, some of the «unconverted,» perhaps particularly among those with strong religious convictions, may yet be moved by more idealistic arguments for a different sense of what human life as such deserves, the horror of a particular individual's behavior notwithstanding.

For, the makers of society to some degree use their knowledge of human behavior to guide their actions as social agents.

Persons of the same sex can not marry because they can not do what married couples can, i.e., consummate their union by a bodily act in which they become the common subjects of an act that, precisely as human behavior, is eminently fit both for the communication of spousal love and for the generation of new human life.

But the humanistic psychologist is convinced that the conditioning factors in human behavior do not constitute the full explanation of it, and that the key agency is the free and responsible person as an originative, concretizing center.

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.

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 gay community has been so exercised to deny that homosexual orientation is chosen that it runs the danger of draining homosexual behavior of its human dimension as a chosen act or life.

@Sam AIDS most likely came from a primate in the African jungle, and was transferred to humans as a result of naughty behavior between one of each species.

The history of scientific efforts to explain human behavior provides many examples, and some aspects of cosmology, such as its Anthropic Principle, invite the label «cosmo - theology.»

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».

You can post quotes from and references to this book all year long and it will not change the fact that: Yes, there are some practical words of wisdom for peaceful human behavior in it (as there are in most religious texts), but just because this is true it does not make all of the supernatural fantasies in it true.

Dr. May gives this as the definition of addiction: «Addiction is any compulsive, habitual behavior that limits freedom of human desire.

Unlike humans, who can and often do set out to make others suffer, animals are primarily concerned to «protect their territory,» as students of their behavior tell us, or to save their young from attack, or to secure necessary supplies of food for their survival.

I don't know about you, but I would believe the people who study the human mind, thoughts, and behavior (i.e. psychologists and sociologists), over someone who says there's some spooky external agent that no one can possibly verify the existence of, and which has no consistent pattern of action with which to use as evidence for verification.

The exclusion of the Christian God is clearest in economics at the point of limiting human behavior to rational behavior and defining that as self - interested behavior.

He argued (as did Aristotle) that there are certain basic human values which are simply worth having for their own sake, and that the ultimate consequence of immoral behavior is self - destruction.