Sentences with phrase «of psychological reasons»

This put simply, means your cat is over-grooming or hair chewing because of psychological reasons such as stress, nervousness, fear or anxiety.

In addition, some borrowers who qualify for discharge because of a psychological reason — such as an Alzheimer's patient — may not be capable of understanding the materials they receive, she said.

Not exact matches

If the speculative bubbles and crashes across market history have taught us anything (particularly the repeated episodes of recklessness we've observed over the past two decades), it's this: regardless of the level of valuation at any point in time, we have to allow for the potential for investors to adopt a psychological preference toward risk - seeking speculation, and no amount of reason will dissuade them even when that speculation has already made a collapse inevitable over a longer horizon.

In a twist of great irony, the reason so many of us embrace the «It Can't Happen to Me» syndrome is because from a psychological standpoint, it preserves our immediate to short - term feeling of well - being by disassociating ourselves from reality and encouraging inaction, even though from a long - term perspective, it is very likely to destroy our self - preservation abilities.

The field of behavioral finance has shone a spotlight on the psychological reasons why individuals fall prey to certain decision - making pitfalls, including short - term behavior that prejudices long - term investment performance.

This undersaving arises for a variety of economic and psychological reasons, but the impact is felt by us all.

Peaple choose to suspend their reason because their psychological needs require the existence of a sky daddy, because they NEED to explain things, and they see no other explanation.

«We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, personal, emotional, and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture, and society at large; after forming our beliefs we then defend, justify, and rationalize them with a host of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments, and rational explanations.

By identifying the dialectical element that he recognizes in the process of concrescence with feeling rather than with logic, Whitehead is able to preserve the integrity of logic, and to avoid what I take to be the Hegelian dual fallacy of both overestimating the power of so - called «reason,» and at the same time encumbering logic with psychological, epistemological, and metaphysical elements that have no proper place in it.

This psychological reality is the reason why so many comedians at all levels of the hilarious hierarchy can be heard hitting out at Christianity and heralding its demise.

Personally, I've got a better theology of ministry on Good Friday («Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures»), with all sorts of sound sociological, psychological reasons for death and defeat, than I have a pastoral theology robust enough for Easter («He was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures»).

I believed that the only reason anyone would choose to become or remain a religious conservative is lack of the psychological strength to confront the ambiguity and uncertainty of the world.

There are many reasons why the use of psychological models in biblical scholarship has met with resistance in some quarters.

Since psychological language aims at revealing the depths of human transformation, and since this is the goal of theological language as well, there is no reason the two can not walk together in the search for truth.

Its experience of the extent to which human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.

Also from a psychological standpoint, you avoided the question i posed along with showing signs of aggression so apparently you did leave for selfish reasons and not logical one's, Good day.

Instead of having to posit a direct, psychological, often mysterious effect on disaggregated individuals, the investigator is able to show that ideas are actually produced by specific sets of people who have access to necessary material and cultural resources, are influenced by particular organizational constraints, and bring their ideas into contact with an audience that has reasons to be receptive.

There are doubtless many reasons: economic and political, psychological and cultural, 5 but a fundamental reason for paralysis and division among Christians is the ambiguity of the Bible.6 This is evident to the most casual reader.

For a penetrating analysis of the psychological and cultural reasons, see the writings of Sam Keen, particularly Faces of the Enemy (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986).

First, he suggests to us a God that comes more from the exigencies of reason than from the psychological needs of man or the uncharted beginnings of his varied traditions.

The justification of the good has been replaced by the justification of the wicked; the idealization of good citizenship has given way to the idealization of its opposite, of disorder, chaos, anarchy and catastrophe; the forgiving love of Jesus for the sinful woman, for the adulteress and for the publican, has been misrepresented, for psychological or political reasons, in order to make of it a Christian sanctioning of anti-social «marginal existences,» prostitutes and traitors to their country.

In an interview several years ago she discussed the conventions of the detective story in which «the good triumph and the bad are punished... This is one reason why, for some people, the detective story — however good it is — will always be classified as a subliterary form: because of the contrivances, and because, in the past, psychological truth was too often sacrificed to the demands of plot» (Times Literary Supplement.

There are many reasons why this has happened; this is no place to discuss them, but among others we may mention scientific constructions, psychological discoveries, awareness of sociological conditions, and all that Bonhoeffer summed up in saying that man has «come of age» (by which he did not mean that man is an entirely mature and adult creature who now can take the place of God, in a fashion not unlike the claim made by the Provost of King's in his recent utterances; but he did mean that we now know our own responsibility and that God treats us, not like slaves nor like little children, but like sons to whom He entrusts such responsibility).

Evidence for or against the existence of Thor or King Oberon would consist only in local facts, not universal truths of reason; it would be entirely empirical, episodic, psychological, personal, and hence elusive.

For various psychological and technical reasons which I need not examine here, the reading or decipherment of the tract of time disclosed by paleontology is still not free of difficulty.

First, there is the tension between Western notions of human reason — nature - controlling, deductive and scientific — and a more embodied, feeling, experiential approach which draws on biological and psychological processes.

If the first century notions of a maternal spirit and an androgynous Jesus were indeed early teachings that the developing church subsequently rejected (for whatever reasons), then a «balanced out» theology of the Christian godhead, informed by psychological insights, has both «modern» relevance and «ancient» precedent.

One reason why we have emphasized so much in this chapter the need of content for meditation is that it is a psychological impossibility to think of nothing for very long, and if one does not think of God or one's relation to him, one is sure to think of something else.

It suggests that although there can be mitigating circumstances, neither fate nor the psychological history of the person can be advanced as the sole reason for his or her conduct.

The present revisions of our «winnowed wisdom,» tempered by the cautions proposed for cultural, psychological and theological reasons, will work only if we reaffirm the ancient impetus to care for the dying with pastoral tenderness.

One reason to be looked at as a possibility, though not to be charged against all who hesitate, is what was mentioned in the previous chapter as the implicit atheism of regarding the psychological effects of prayer as entirely self - caused.

Writers such as Cardinal Newman and Edward Holloway have protested this irrational fad for divorcing reason from the basic psychological dynamic of affirmative human experience.

There are theological as well as psychological reasons for denying to the idea - forming, abstracting, comparing and critical work of the mind the kind of superiority to physical action, imagination, emotion and unconscious operation that is often claimed for it.

«They made us work for it, in the first half there were psychological and tactical reasons for us not expressing the quality of our game,» Wenger said.

We dropped in the second half a little bit, I believe a little bit for psychological reasons, just [because of] the 1 - 1 just before half - time.

Seven reasons for breast feeding follow, but before giving anyone this list, I also add one bit of advice — that breast feeding, for all its known medical advantages, is no psychological advantage if the woman is unhappy, emotionally uncomfortable or stressed by breast feeding «pressure.

This can occur for a variety of physical and psychological reasons, which need to be diagnosed and treated.

Based on a survey by the Office of National Statistics (UK) from 1999 [1], 5.3 % of all children and adolescents between the ages of 5 — 15 had clinically significant conduct problems, the commonest reason for referral for psychological and psychiatric treatment in childhood [2].

Be sure to rule out a urinary tract infection as the cause of toilet training regression before delving into possible psychological reasons.

Obviously, there are deeper reasons besides «psychological of an individual or two» which are responsible and will be responsible for what is going to happen (historical, economical, social reasons).

Reporter T.A. Frank spent time with Pataki on the campaign trail in New Hampshire looking for answers in a «psychological investigation» of a candidate who «is running for reasons unknown.»

In a bizarre article - which for some reasons makes repeated reference to Eddie Izzard's transvestism - Johnson wrote that «the European Union did indeed have a weird prototype in Hitler's wartime Reich» adding that: «In fact, you can only really understand the psychological background of today's experiment in economic and political integration if you understand the horror of what Hitler did in the war.»

Vess's experiments follow a much longer line of psychological research exploring the reasons people avoid a cold shoulder, lament a frigid partner and have to «cool off» after a spat.

«If you're going to have a new boss at work, or if you have to start a new diet for medical reasons, or if you're about to have a new baby — the message is that your «psychological immune system» will likely kick in and make you feel better about any unpleasant aspect of these new realities once they actually take hold,» Laurin concludes.

We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, emotional and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture and society at large.

If we spend so much time in a state of reverie, they reason, it's probably not some psychological mistake.

«Hearing loss is a common reason for early retirement of pilots, second only to psychological stress.

Kids who are taught to reason about the mental states of others are more likely to use deception to win a reward, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Drawing on findings from other studies, the researchers suggest that possible reasons for the inequalities between those who did and did not seek help for infertility include not understanding or acknowledging that a problem exists, fear of being labelled infertile, concerns about the cost of treatment, the physical and psychological burden of treatment, or simply not wanting to get pregnant.

Each type of emotional experience associated with sad music could be connected to a distinct profile of reasons, psychological mechanisms, and reactions, the researchers added.