Sentences with phrase «predisposition toward»

Individuals high in hostility have a biological predisposition toward antisocial behavior and, under given circumstances, will learn these behaviors.

It is possible that having these personality disorders gives one a greater predisposition toward criminal behavior.

Some studies22, 23 also suggest that a genetic predisposition toward stress or threat hyporesponsivity or a lack of emotional reactivity facilitates the development of aggressive behavior.

Judges are required to be impartial, harboring no predisposition toward the prosecution or the defence.

Established in 1987, Haines Gallery supports emerging and established artists from the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East with a predisposition toward conceptual engagement with place.

[6] They have a natural predisposition toward digging under fences and «expanding their territory,» which needs to be monitored and controlled.

If a dog has a genetic predisposition toward a disease it has the gene (s) necessary to develop the disease but whether it will or not depends on other, generally environmental, factors.

«The rise in ownership of large dog breeds with a predisposition toward aggressive or dangerous behavior, coupled with the increased risk of tragic incidents involving these dogs, necessitates a uniform policy,» says the order, which was handed down in August.

Breeds like Boston Terriers, Bulldogs, and Pugs have a predisposition toward breathing inefficiency, which typically needs to be handled on an individual basis.

If your dog might have a genetic predisposition toward urinary tract issues, ask your vet about feeding him a food designed for urinary health as a preventive measure.

atopy / at · o · py / (at» ah - pe) a genetic predisposition toward the development of immediate hypersensitivity reactions against common environmental antigens (atopic allergy)

«The rise in ownership of large dog breeds with a predisposition toward aggressive or dangerous behavior, coupled with the increased risk of tragic incidents involving these dogs, necessitates a uniform policy,» the order states.

Man's best friend is famous, of course, for his devotion, unconditional love and natural predisposition toward human affection.

Maybe, someday, if money managers no longer are making salaries and bonuses I consider exorbitant, my predisposition toward humans will swing my choice the other way.

I didn't think Soo - ja had a predisposition toward these feelings, but I believe her parents exhibited signs of this as did Min (and certainly his family).

If you have «atopy,» a genetic predisposition toward having allergic reactions, echinacea may cause an allergic reaction for you.

Among the diseases more likely to occur in children with older fathers are achondroplasia (which causes dwarfism), progeria (premature aging), Marfan's syndrome (a connective tissue disorder), a predisposition toward a certain type of skin cancer, and some congenital heart defects.

«For example,» Schwartz says, «children with increased predisposition toward aggressive behavior may be more drawn to TV.»

The openness of the civic culture has depended on the fact that these groups and traditions have functioned as teachers of virtue and morality, sustaining by their various lights a general predisposition toward acting well.

Just because a person has a genetic predisposition toward violence and / or addiction doesn't mean that behavior based on their innate tendencies should be acceptable to society!

If one is not a biblical literalist there is no case at all, nothing but prejudice born of ignorance, that attacks people whose only crime is to be born with an un-changeable sexual predisposition toward those of their own sex.

And if science could show us how we inherit a predisposition toward sin, might science also show us how to heal the soul and harvest fruits of the Spirit?

Whether biological or social, whether innate or environmental, we begin our morally responsible life with a specific inheritance and a predisposition toward behaving in specific ways.

Although not strictly biographical, Waithe and co. weave experiences from Chicago's South Side into something that's not only entertaining, but an effective counterpunch to the idea that poor, inner - city youth have a genetic predisposition toward violence and chaos.

If one is not a biblical literalist there is no case at all, nothing but prejudice born of ignorance, that attacks people whose only crime is to be born with an unchangeable sexual predisposition toward those of their own sex.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Maybe, someday, if money managers no longer are making salaries and bonuses I consider exorbitant, my predisposition toward humans will swing my choice the other way.

However, a study performed at Edinburgh University found that much of our predisposition toward determination, sociability, self - control, and sense of purpose is in our genes.

Let us then provisionally define religion as the totality of an individual's sincere attitudes and predispositions toward that which serves as the final expression of that individual's particular primary interest or goal — which in fact is very much the same as saying, with Whitehead: «Religion is what the individual does with his [or her] own solitariness» (TIM 16).

All those who have an interest in the electronic church, whatever their ideological predispositions toward it might be, would be well advised to give a high priority to the gathering of systematic data about the phenomenon.

But, some people do have genetic predispositions toward obesity or lower energy expenditures and all progress in the right direction — even very slow weight loss — should be rewarded and celebrated.

The study found that subjects did not react in a uniform, much less a uniformly positive manner, but rather polarized along lines consistent with cultural predispositions toward technological risk generally.

Studies have shown that children who inherit predispositions toward criminal behavior (Cloninger et al., 1982; Mednick et al., 1987), schizophrenia (Tienari et al., 1994), or alcoholism (Cloninger et al., 1982; McGue, 1999) are more likely to fall prey to these risks if they are reared in adverse circumstances.

Not exact matches

We are born with opportunities and constraints over which we had no original control, and some of this conditioning influences our predisposition to behavior toward others.

If you are born with a tendency toward alcoholism or losing your temper, that predisposition may always be there but you have «overcome» it if you refuse to become an alcoholic or become abusive when you're angry.

Next, the researchers developed a genetic model comprising 150 SNPs in order to compute the predisposition of an individual toward EL.

Repression of the transcription factor Bach2 contributes to predisposition of IgG1 memory B cells toward plasma cell differentiation.

As noted previously, about half of our baseline outlook toward optimism or pessimism is determined by genetic predisposition.

Background The ASPCA recognizes that there are dogs who by virtue either of training or lack of training and socialization — especially in combination with a genetic predisposition to be wary of strangers, aggressive toward other dogs and / or predatory toward other animals — may pose serious threats if inadequately supervised and controlled by their guardians.

But I feel the preponderance of evidence leans toward the previous view, that there is considerable risk to many dogs in supplementing in that way, especially those breeds or families that may have a genetic predisposition to HOD.