Sentences with phrase «people behave the way they do»

This is because it doesn't provide tips, ideas, or principles on how to parent, but instead provides the psychological and theological foundation for why people behave the way they do, and how we can recognize these foundational truths in our own lives and in our children.

Why do people behave the way they do?

In their upcoming online EdX course, «Unlocking the Immunity to Change: A New Approach to Personal Improvement,» Kegan and Lahey apply their psychological theory that traditional approaches to making changes can ignore the more complicated underlying reasons people behave the way they do.»

As another Facing History student wrote: «The more we learn about why and how people behave the way they do, the more likely we are to become involved and find our own solutions.»

Not exact matches

When the Iowa native is not studying why people think and behave the way they do, he's feeding chickens, nurturing fruit trees, or splitting wood at his Chicago - area suburban farm.

And while hormones don't directly cause people to feel or behave a certain way, they do grease the wheels for certain experiences and motivations.

What do you think about the way this has people behaving in unique ways and on large scales, converging on not just public spaces, but other people's homes?

Happiness might make people feel good, but it doesn't always make them behave in good ways.

Typically used to explain away someone's poor behavior, like the top salesperson who treats people badly or the great engineer who is rude during meetings, the loose translation of this statement is, «Even though it's my job as a boss to address this issue, and I wouldn't let anyone else behave that way, I don't feel like dealing with it.»

Even though most people don't behave this way anymore, you and your family can be different.

People don't behave the way we do, good or bad, because of ancient scripture or the voice of burning bush in the desert or the face of the messiah on French toast.

Somehow these zealots have convinced themselves if people behave in ways they don't like or condone it infringes on their personal freedom.

So while I personally wouldn't categorically state that possession does or doesn't exist, my experience tells me that people who behave in these ways are more in need of a specially - trained mental health professional than they are in need of a specially - trained priest.

I don't know, but it occurs to me that people who act up in these ways might indeed be behaving above and beyond what our genes have programmed the rest of us to be.

We compel people to behave in ways that they clearly do not wish to on the basis of aggregated data whose irrelevance would become obvious if we translated them into individually meaningful terms.

In the Old Testament, when God looks like He is behaving in ways that do not match the nature and character of God as revealed in Jesus Christ, this is not because God is being deceptive, but because God is taking the sins of His people upon Himself just as Jesus did on the cross.

Yet because God created a world where people have genuine freedom and can behave in ways that are contrary to His will, God can not take away human freedom when they try to use it in ways that He doesn't like.

When people try to trick Jesus, as they often do, He does not consign them to everlasting slavery, but instead tries to liberate and free them from the fear, the shame, the guilt, and the thinking which causes them to behave this way (cf. Matthew 22:23 - 46).

If the person doesn't behave that way, then they must not be the fourth soil, and so must not have eternal life.

I only ask because I sometimes periodically wonder about why people think the things they do and behave the way they do but i almost always never do anything always.

Likewise, when he instructed people to behave in certain ways, he did not say that you should do this because it's the right thing to do.

People who are truly Christian and behave the way Christ did are NOT going to stand up and shout «I'm a Christian and I'm a better one than he is!»

This helps maintain the accuracy of Scripture, in that it accurately reflects the ideas and views of people who lived at that time, but it enables the reader to understand that because of what we see in Jesus, God does not behave the way people thought He did.

The problem is that people who behave the way Christ did — taking care of the less fortunate, living their life as an example of God's love — do not, by definition, stand up and say «look at me, I'm a Christian — see how superior I am!»

If you don't like it, move to the Middle East where people are forced to believe and behave one way... obviously the way you people are.

I don't see christian churches teaching people to stone anyone anymore, just to legislate against them (stomping on the first ammendment in the process) in hopes that they can ignore the reality of others not agreeing with everything they say, or not behaving in what they view as the right way.

What we can do when we understand institutions, is to better understand why people sometimes behave in hurtful ways when they are otherwise good people and mean well.

Well, if you have done something like that, then you've just imposed your idea the way people should behave on someone else.

To me, this approach is the touchstone for assessing the difference between fact and fiction in history The core question is: Does the description of ancient people's behavior ring true when we compare it to the way contemporary people behave in a similar cultural area?

«We set out to be a disruptor, a business that changes the way people think, behave and do business in the health food trade,» he says.

I didn't say that people are of the opinion that Arsenal will not lose a single game against an inferior side, you would need to be some kind of daft hating simpleton to behave that way.

I have often felt judged for «giving in» to my child's tantrums in public, by people who either don't have kids or don't feel that their emotions are worth respecting (even if they are behaving in unreasonable ways).

Many people who bully others feel entitled to behave in the way they do.

People on IB or ESA are very sick and vulnerable and should not be vilified by Iain Duncan Smith as he did again earlier this week when he suggested that some people in receipt of sickness benefits are behaving in a fraudulenPeople on IB or ESA are very sick and vulnerable and should not be vilified by Iain Duncan Smith as he did again earlier this week when he suggested that some people in receipt of sickness benefits are behaving in a fraudulenpeople in receipt of sickness benefits are behaving in a fraudulent way.

I did not receive any contribution from them, through Mills, through Smith, or directly through the person who came to see me also and I don't believe that they sent it to Mills and I don't believe that Prof Mills received any money from that place because I think they got fed up with the way this man was behaving.»

The Greek people did not behave in a manner which is in any way different to their British counterparts.

The voters believe these people take jobs that the indigenous working class would be happy to do (though the evidence for that is scarce), that they make an immediate claim on public services for which they have not made a contribution through their taxes (easier to prove) and that, in some cases, they behave in a way the indigenous population finds culturally offensive.

«I do think there are people in the party who need to examine their own consciences about the way they've behaved and I think they now need to recognise that this is not the way to treat colleagues and I hope they will reflect on that,» he said.

But I believe in giving people a second chance, and as the director of communications he does an excellent job for the Conservative party and behaves properly and in an upright way in everything that he does.»

Sometimes you have to try to give people frank comments and advice, and in this particular case I did preface what I was saying by saying if they want to have a conversation about a political matter as well as a personal matter it is confidential, and you do expect people to behave in a trustworthy way, which these people from the Daily Telegraph didn't.

For many people it doesn't fit their sense of the way women ought to behave.

People don't behave the way economics says they should.

One of the challenges in observational science is sorting out what leads people to behave in the way they do.»

I don't like the way people behave like crazed beasts when there is a sale, it's sad really.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that just because it is online, they can say and do whatever they want — the most important of all tips for online dating is that if you want to find a real relationship online, you will need to behave in the same way you would in the «real» world.

The look of pure horror grows on Beatriz» face, as does her sense of bewilderment at how people can behave this way.

The first doctor that Sawyer goes to in a panic when she realizes she has to stay doesn't get off the phone right away to talk to her; an attorney that Sawyer's mother calls for help hangs up without waiting for questions or even saying goodbye; and even the new role in which Sawyer may or may not be seeing David is that of a controlling male: someone literally drugging the people under his care so they'll behave in the way they want him to.

Less about actual driving than what drives people to behave the way they do, to violence, to flee, and to fall in love, the movie reminds us of what can be done with cinema.

«It's great to see characters behave and speak the way people do, in real life.

Their first date does not go as Alma planned: Reynolds clearly lacks what we'd call «people skills,» and behaves in a strange, detached, but intense way all through the night.