Sentences with phrase «proclivity toward»

In the broader research literature, many instruments have emerged to measure the frequency, severity, and general proclivity toward violence in adolescents, but few address adolescent - to - parent violence specifically (Cornell and Gelles 1982; Tarter et al. 2002; Wilson 1996).

Though we have a natural proclivity toward empathy in conducive circumstances, the skills and thought processes of empathy can be cultivated and honed throughout childhood.

If replicated by future studies, these preliminary findings suggest that the MAOA - L would confer a vulnerability to negative social experiences, including early trauma, and a specific proclivity toward reactive aggression, i.e. that type of aggression triggered by exaggerated levels of negative emotion, such as anger and anxiety.

Many dogs have a proclivity toward unprovoked bites, and we can discover that information during our investigation.

Perhaps best known for a proclivity toward glitter; rhinestones, and other blingy embellishments, Mickalene Thomas often paints portraits of friends and family recast in the nostalgic glamour of her seventies childhood.

The fact that our president has a proclivity toward making racially divisive statements doesn't help either.

There's been a lot of discussion about how Allen's proclivity toward May - December relationships mirror his own personal life, and quite frankly, it's getting a bit exhausting watching the director indulge his fantasy of beautiful young women falling in love with older men, especially now that he's no longer playing the lead in his films.

Further for his protection as well as their proclivity toward privacy, they allow no visitors, no matter what appeal may be made.

Rabbit corneas were assayed due to their greater proclivity toward endothelial cell division than human cells [14].

A husband - and - wife team of neuropsychologists whose work has shed light on the interplay between genes and the environment in determining proclivity toward violence have been awarded the $ 1 million Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize.

The answer is neither, according to a controversial new study: People who lived in small bands in the past had no more proclivity toward violence than we do today.

Not only is there an accumulation of individuals with an undue self - regard, there is a collective pride of nations and groups that has a proclivity toward self - aggrandizement; the self - seeking of institutions, groups, and nations has a life and momentum of its own.

These songs are not meant to be theological statements about God's real proclivity toward arson or lack thereof.

The original quest was thus one way of implementing such a proclivity toward inauthentic existence.

Amnesia is memory loss based on physical trauma or selectively ignoring events that cause discomfort; America is a great nation with a proclivity toward overlooking its painful past.

Given Chao's proclivity toward industry interests, she may be more open to privatizing an integrated air traffic control system and working with the drone industry's timelines.

Our tester was equipped with all - wheel - drive, and while it was fine for whatever we threw at it in the suburbs and the big city, the proclivity toward a rear - wheel bias means that the Stelvio is more for the «sport» part of SUV than the «utility» part.

The thing that some people talking about genetics are getting at is that people have different proclivities toward entrepreneurship and different sets of skills or endowments intellectually.

We can only apply the summary with the awareness that as Christians we live with the tension, that each one of us will have proclivities toward one pole or the other.

Whatever proclivities toward a Manichean libel of God's creation and its goodness we may discover in the «puritanical» streams of the Judeo - Christian traditions, and however much we may deplore and seek to correct these proclivities, we must also see that here at least the seriousness of sexuality was recognized.

Nevertheless, applying MRI technology to healthy individuals to ascertain their proclivities toward certain diseases or behaviors is considered to be in its infancy.

(Teenagers have famously bad judgment, weak self - control, and proclivities toward recklessness.)

(via Linton Robinson) Total world peace is probably an impossibility in 2016 given the human race's proclivities toward tribalism, religious sectarianism, greed, blood lust and struggles over limited resources.

With that being said, a spayed puppy can still jettison any proclivities toward aggression with proper training and socialization.

Thus, less maternal time with children appears to be mainly attributable to the disadvantaged social structural location of single mothers rather than different proclivities toward mothering between married and single mothers.»

Not exact matches

If your proclivities lean more toward a powerful German coupe with handsome styling, an aristocratic flair, and an extraordinary degree of sex appeal, the Audi S5 Coupe will probably tickle your fancy.

Aston Martin plays the neutral card but if your proclivity leans toward things Italian, the Maserati offers an affordable option as the Maserati GT - S is going to be priced around $ 495,000.

This is especially true given the abiding proclivities of contemporary practice toward the provisional — the unfinished and the ephemeral.

This absence is, in fact, the primary aesthetic distinction between this handset and an Apple offering — a fact likely due to the manufacturing proclivities of design partner HTC, the arc of which, it seems, will invariably bend toward the iPhone.

Younger homebuyers, however, have a tendency toward a row house or townhouse — a proclivity that wanes with age, when preferences shift to a single - family home.