Sentences with phrase «of social sensitivity»

Using psychological tests that had been developed to assess an individual's degree of social sensitivity, as well as tests for other key competencies, he and Dailey found that the officers identified as outstanding consistently performed very well on such tests, whereas those rated mediocre performed poorly.

Taken together, these studies support the notion that collectivism can protect against psychopathology in populations with a high proportion of social sensitivity alleles.

Collectivism, individualism and genetic markers of social sensitivity, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 5, Issue 2 - 3, 1 June 2010, Pages 203 — 211, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsq059

This increase in psychopathology following relocating to an individualistic culture among members of ethnic groups with a high proportion of social sensitivity alleles extends to other phenotypes such as social anxiety (Okazaki, 1997) and subclinical depression (Tafarodi and Smith, 2001).

This suggests that the reduced lifetime prevalence of depression in populations with a high prevalence of social sensitivity alleles may be due to the increased levels of collectivism in those populations.

Similarly, individualism may have represented a better fit for populations with a low proportion of social sensitivity alleles where less reactivity to social rejection or exclusion would have been beneficial.

In line with the social sensitivity hypothesis, a potential explanation for this relationship is that collectivism improves emotional well - being in populations with a high prevalence of social sensitivity alleles.

The relationship between allele frequency and depression was partially mediated by individualism — collectivism, suggesting that reduced levels of depression in populations with a high proportion of social sensitivity alleles is due to greater collectivism.

Thus, collectivism may be more compatible with populations possessing a high proportion of social sensitivity alleles and may lead to higher levels of well - being in such populations.

Anna Quindlen, the universal monitor of social sensitivity, urged that a little bombing and strafing was the least that we could do.

Not exact matches

Second, the good teams all had high «average social sensitivity» — a fancy way of saying they were skilled at intuiting how others felt based on their tone of voice, their expressions and other nonverbal cues.

I also object to the notion that millennials have a better sensitivity to BS — this is a generation that learns its social policies from celebrities, and has made the likes of Lady Gaga very wealthy.

The play had positive social consequences as well, leading to an increased sensitivity toward the disabled, and a new wave of professionals trained to help them.

Instruction in manners that sustain the habits of detachment, control, and social sensitivity in eating are part of the long and never - completed task of weaning.

I propose to regard these «social» interactions as typical cases of the way entities in space relate to each other, except that in these instances the «entities» have more than average sensitivity.

I drink in his gentle sensitivity, his attention to those on the edge of our social circle.

The great champions of the Social Gospel application of the message of Jesus and the prophets to the industrial, social, and economic problems of America were men who looked at those problems with aesthetic sensitSocial Gospel application of the message of Jesus and the prophets to the industrial, social, and economic problems of America were men who looked at those problems with aesthetic sensitsocial, and economic problems of America were men who looked at those problems with aesthetic sensitivity.

In principle, physical education provides the best opportunity for the harmonious development of the entire person, through contests of skill in which intelligence, esthetic imagination, social sensitivity, and moral purpose are channeled through significant physical activity.

It is the basis of social action in that it provides the sensitivity to social problems that is constantly needed to know where the action is.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

In the Christ event, «human structures, already impregnated with the seeds of Redemption through antecedent events, became articulate and responsive with a sensitivity and receptiveness that literally thrust upon the social community a new level of consciousness, a new center of consciousness and concern» (RE 258).

Lewis Mumford has served us well in drawing our attention to the way in which such architecture reflects vulgarity in social life, a lack of sensitivity in human awareness, a willful assertion of cheap attitudes, and contempt for those who must be exposed to such building and have their feelings offended and their taste degraded.

«A wide variety of two - household parenting arrangements can potentially be successful for children age five and younger... [and] the quality of the parental alliance and the parents» warmth, sensitivity, good adjustment, and discipline style make the difference between a well adjusted child and one who is angry, scared, or limited in cognitive and social skills.»

Timely and appropriate maternal sensitivity to the infant's behaviour is a central component of mother - infant relationships and healthy social and emotional development.20, 21 Maternal depression may disrupt the maternal - child relationship, 22 contribute to maternal failure to respond appropriately to infant signals23 and lead to insecure attachments.24 A mother's failure to respond to the crying infant can have important immediate and lasting consequences for infant development.

We assumed that breastfeeding does not influence the costs of childbearing and discounted future costs by 3 % per year, the social discount rate, to the year when our hypothetical women were aged 25 years, the mean age of U.S. women at first birth.14 We performed sensitivity analyses with discount rates of 0 % and 5 %.

The working together of these three groups in the life of the school requires insight, social sensitivity and competence so that the school can be healthy and best serve the needs of the children.

These include our life of feeling (emotions, aesthetics, and social sensitivity), our willpower (the ability to get things done), and our moral nature (being clear about right and wrong).

He said the scheme was designed having realised the poor state of living of more than average of Nigerian, saying «it is unfortunate that in last few decades Nigeria's economy began to decline due to lack of government sensitivity to social protection programmes of the people.

«In light of these sensitivities, we have decided to shift our support to other National Puerto Rican Day Parade Committee cultural and social efforts throughout the year as part of our continuing commitment to the community.»

John Michael Humphries Choptiany formerly of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and now at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, together with colleagues at Dalhousie, Alberta Innovates — Technology Futures (AITF), and G BACH Enterprises Incorporated, explain how they have adopted information from the environmental, social, economic and engineering fields to create their assessment framework, which incorporates utility curves, criterion weights, thresholds, decision trees, Monte Carlo simulation, critical events and sensitivity analysis.

Researchers determined the extent of relative climate sensitivity in the reserves by looking at five factors: social, biophysical, and ecological sensitivity, and exposure to temperature change and sea level rise.

Factors such as poor emotional control, limited coping skills, poor social functioning, and increased stress sensitivity increase a child's risk of experiencing psychotic - like symptoms (e.g., unusual thoughts, suspiciousness, perceptual disturbances).

«This implies that certain aspects of high - SES culture that have been observed in adults, such as increased self - focus and decreased social sensitivity, might be present in children as young as 4 years of age,» says Miller.

The findings suggest that heightened threat sensitivity may be characteristic of people with ASD who exhibit social fearfulness.

Differences in activity levels, social sensitivity, awareness of other people — these become magnified once a child figures out which gender she or he belongs to.

So the researchers, headed by Douglas Oxley of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, decided to test the idea that liberal and conservative (or «protective») social beliefs are related to individuals» sensitivity to threat.

Although the reasons for increased risk to male babies are not known, they could include developmental differences in the growth and function of the placenta, or increased sensitivity of male fetuses to environmental factors experienced by the mother, including obesity, smoking, advanced maternal age, and social deprivation.

Positive emotionality is a combination of scores for well - being (reward sensitivity), social potency, achievement (motivation), and social closeness; negative emotionality is a combination of scores for stress reaction, alienation, and aggression; and constraint is a combination of scores for self - control, harm avoidance, and traditionalism.

We propose that the remarkable quantitative stability of the climate sensitivity range has helped to hold together a variety of different social worlds relating to climate change, by continually translating and adapting the meaning of the «stable» range.

«Many birds — which are the descendants of dinosaurs — use their beaks in social display, and there is plenty of evidence that carnivorous dinosaurs engaged in face - biting among themselves, perhaps targeting the sensitivity of the face to make a point.»

«Let's just say for argument's sake that if you exhibit that neural sensitivity to social rejection in daily life, you could be having these increases in inflammation throughout the course of a day or week,» Slavich said.

Blamed for everything from headaches, to abnormal weight loss / gain, to constipation / diarrhea, to menstrual irregularity, to leaky gut / bowel inflammation, to anemia... and basically everything including cancer and the deaths of kittens (ok, maybe not), gluten has really gotten a bad rap in the past several years, probably very much in part due to the publishing of the book Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis, the landmark study on Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS) by Dr. Peter Gibson, and the explosion of social media in the past decade that has given an unprecedented voice to people who otherwise would have no credibility with which to garner attention towards themselves.

George, just out of jail after taking a fall for the Caine character, has virtually none of the social graces, dresses as though colour blind, and is prone to violent fits of temper, yet there's a sensitivity there, apparent in his increasing concern for Simone's welfare.

There's a performative sensitivity to some of these social missives, too.

But when it turns out that «cool kids» like Eric (Dave Franco) and Molly (Brie Larson) share more in common with Schmidt's sensitivity than they do Jenko's blustery indifference, the cops get sidetracked from their duties by the unexpected discoveries they make, while stuck on the other side of the social paradigm.

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges — True Grit — an amusing, disgusting, powerful presence that makes everything seem possible & REAL Jesse Eisenberg — Social Network — smart, subtle, fearless & very, very funny in a very, very specific way Colin Firth — King's Speech — appropriately pompous with vulnerability the audience adores — a true star turn and a true joy to behold James Franco — 127 Hours — wild and impassioned and believable with manliness battling it out with sensitivity in almost every frame Hrithik Roshan — Guzaarish — remarkably vulnerable with an edge of steel and a level of frustrated yearning that blew me away

Not all universities make the leap from classroom behavior to ideology: The «Teacher Education Professional Dispositions and Skills Criteria» at Winthrop University in South Carolina are only basic indicators of professional commitment, communication skills, interpersonal skills (among them, «Shows sensitivity to all students and is committed to teaching all students»), emotional maturity, and academic integrity; acknowledging social inequities is not mentioned.

Because of the potentially significant social and health implications of poor hygiene, you can not sidestep those issues with students; you must deal with them with honesty and directness, and with sensitivity and concern for the student's emotional well being.

Concordia University graduate of Applied Social Science and Masters of Educational Technology (candidate) Specialties: Customer Care & Service Management, Education & Learning Specialist, Lifeskills Training, Cultlural Sensitivity & Diversity Training, Project Management, Instructional and Non-Instructional Design, Group and Team Dynamics Facilitation, Emotional Intelligence & Interpersonal Relationships Training, eLearning and mLearning Development, Virtual Classroom Event Moderation & Facilitation, e-Learning Evaluation, Workplace Training and Development, Social Media Community Management

This combination of sensitivity, caring, high expectations and structure has been shown to have the best consequences for children, who commonly display academic achievement, good social skills, moral maturity, autonomy and high self - esteem.»