Sentences with phrase «psychological characteristics according»

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According to the document «Towards Common Witness» some of the characteristics which distinguish proselytism from Christian witness are: unfair criticism of caricaturing of the doctrines, beliefs and practices of another church; presenting one's church or confession as «the true church»; the use of humanitarian aid, educational opportunities or moral and psychological pressure, to induce people to change their affiliation; exploiting people's loneliness, even disillusionment with their own church in order to «convert» them.

With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge of the categorical characteristics of reality, or an idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way in which the human mind as such is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed by history.

Personhood, according to Arthur, «is a psychological idea, requiring us to weigh an organism's mental characteristics.»

... The sole distinguishing characteristic of Morrison's writings is psychological waywardness — derived, it appears from his unhappy childhood as the son of an aloof naval officer... According to his biographers Morrison's chief boyhood pleasure was defying, confounding, and tormenting other people.

According to the Group Psychological Abuse Scale, characteristics include:

These dogs don't only go through a long and arduous training program; they are selected according to their physical and psychological characteristics.

What has no import for later psychological characteristics, according to GS theory, is how well or poorly these early relationships go.

This paper explores whether the impacts of the SHM program on marital quality and stability outcomes differ according to six additional subgroup - defining characteristics at the 12 - and 30 - month follow - up points: (1) length of marriage at study entry, (2) experience of abuse or neglect in the family of origin, (3) psychological distress at study entry, (4) whether the extended family respects and values the couple's marriage, (5) presence of a stepchild in the household, and (6) presence of a young child (under 3) in the household.