Sentences with phrase «of psychological tendencies»

Slightly Unbalanced features work that deals with a range of psychological tendencies, including anxiety, obsessive behavior, depression and narcissism.

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One of the psychological concomitants of our capacity to grasp meanings is the tendency to overdramatize sudden awareness, as if suddenly understanding is the same as suddenly creating.

Racial prejudice is, first of all, a psychological factor, rooting in collective egotism and pride and the pervasive human tendency to dislike the different.

When such schools are located in a cultural context marked by the «triumph of the therapeutic,» [19] there is a strong tendency, to construe those conditions in psychological and sociological categories and to equate the requisite knowledgeabilitv with counseling skills and related psychoanalytical and social - psychological theory.

Unfaithful husbands, especially if your husband has passive aggressive tendencies, are often insensitive to the pain they inflict, just as are perpetrators of physical and psychological violence.

«There is a tendency to think of depression as a purely «psychological» or»em otional» issue, but it also has physical effects and changes in inflammatory and immune markers have been reported in depressed people,» commented Scott Patten, MD, PhD, the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Cumming School of Medicine.

They found that people high in the psychological attribute called attachment anxiety (a tendency to worry about the proximity and availability of a romantic partner) responded to memories of a relationship breakup with an increased preference for warm - temperature foods over cooler ones: soup over crackers.

Then, in a series of experiments, the researchers looked at how the highest and lowest rated power songs affected both people's sense of power and three previously identified psychological and behavioral consequences of power: the tendency to see the forest instead of the trees (thought abstraction), perceived control over social events (illusion of control), and the desire to move first in competitive interactions.

Introducing lots of new food items have a tendency to trigger psychological changes, and possible binges.

After mid-life the adrenal glands gradually become the major source of the sex hormones circulating throughout the body, having a whole host of physical, emotional and psychological effects, from libido to tendency to gain weight.

This means I see mental health problems emerging from a combination of factors including biology, genetics, upbringing, psychological tendencies and our environment.

This tendency to entertain new experiences, to explore the limits of cultural conventions, is fully displayed in The Night Porter, Beyond Good and Evil (1977), and The Berlin Affair (1985), as well as in Cavani's most recent theatrical feature, Ripley's Game (2002), a psychological drama adapted from Patricia Highsmith's celebrated Ripley series.

Most of his other early roles are disappointing, either showing his tendency to go overboard (his lawyer in «Criminal Law» is more over-the-top than Kevin Bacon's psychopath) or select roles in films where eagerness trying on new accents and psychological profiles seem to overshadow coherent character work («Chattahoochee»).

High - profile murders like Ramsey's often provoke gawking, callous media treatment, turning us all into rubberneckers, but Casting JonBenet vigorously works against that tendency, fascinated by our psychological need to judge other people's lives, but also deeply mournful, even respectful, of the very human reasons why we do so.

The practice has its underpinnings based upon solid psychological research and attempts to model the speculative tendencies of the crowds I described above.

Kurt presents the «seven psychological death sins» you should be aware of in an attempt to downtone System 1 and advance System 2: 1) excessive self - confidence, 2) herd mentality, 3) blind orthodoxy, 4) denial, 5) confirmation bias, 6) deadlocked ideas and attitudes, 7) cognitive dissonance (the tendency to go with the thought that «feels best» when stuck with the choice between two contradicting ideas rather than investigating which is more rational).

Recalling X-Rays, Rayographs and other technical images, this new work triggers the latent tendency toward pareidolia, the psychological condition of finding figurative images in abstract forms.

Most of these groups and tendencies continued to pursue a reductionist agenda, in order to purge art of superfluous rhetoric and allusion, while incorporating a carefully planned, psychological use of color.

It is the tendency to a psychological or emotional denial in those of us who intellectually acknowledge the reality of this very scary picture.

As Feinberg and Willer describe, messages of climate change catastrophe tend to violate and threaten how individuals who score high on this psychological tendency order and make sense of the world.

He proposed that the psychological basis of cooperation, competition, and emotional and mental health is a tendency to hold tightly to anxiety - buffering cultural world views or «immortality projects» that serve as the basis for self - esteem and meaning.

Such conclusions are examples of * «end point bias,» * the well documented psychological tendency to interpret a recent short - term fluctuation as a reversal of a long - term trend.»

It is not the panacea to all problems of course, but a darn good jolt to the psychological tendencies Malcolm and his research points to.

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The dark side of forgiveness: The tendency to forgive predicts continued psychological and physical aggression in marriage.

We get affected by various kinds of psychological issues that can be classified under Anxiety Disorders, Somatic Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Mood Disorders, Suicidal tendencies, Schizophrenia, Phobias and Personality Disorders.

Following the direction of Rank's theory in pushing the decisive moment further back in the infant's life, Melanie Klein, who worked with very young children with moderate to severe psychological disorders, came to believe that aggressive tendencies were more critical than sexual ones.

Perspective - Taking (PT) assesses the tendency to spontaneously adopt the psychological point of view of others.

These early patterns of response arise from a basic psychological tendency to like and approach things that seem familiar, and dislike and avoid things that seem unfamiliar.

The effects of culture, personality, and gender on the psychological tendency to love.

Augmenting Perez - Olivas et al.'s (2008) arguments, Mills et al. (2007) propose that parental overprotection is not a sign of nurturing, but rather shows a tendency toward exerting psychological control over the children, which seems to be triggered by the parents» own psychological instability.

The unstable psychological state, corresponding to the disintegrating tendency of Thanatos, she called the «paranoid - schizoid» position.

The Perspective Taking subscale measures the cognitive tendency to adopt another's psychological perspective (7 items; «I try to look at everybody's side of a disagreement before I make a decision»).