Sentences with phrase «psychological phenomena by»

The exposure effect (also known as the mere exposure effect) is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them.

Heffernan's book gives many examples and references in describing willful blindness as a psychological phenomenon by which human beings, through a series of small decisions made over a period of time, unconsciously choose to perceive a reality that preserves their own interests.

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The naïve moralism in this area can be maintained only by ignoring the facts that inebriety is as much a symptom as a cause of the disturbed interpersonal life of the alcoholic, that alcoholism is a complex disease involving physical, cultural, and socio - psychological as well as moral factors, and that homelessness is in itself a complex phenomenon, not the simple product of excessive drinking.

Some behavior ~ istically oriented psychologists try to avoid the idea of freedom altogether, both by explaining psychic phenomena exclusively in physical and biological terms and by minimizing the role of theory construction in the process of psychological inquiry.

If the inquiry be psychological, not religious institutions, but rather religious feelings and religious impulses must be its subject, and I must confine myself to those more developed subjective phenomena recorded in literature produced by articulate and fully self - conscious men, in works of piety and autobiography.

Health promotion practice must acknowledge that health behaviour is influenced by a wide range of personal, social and cultural factors, as Hepworth argues, health promotion practice involves «social phenomena, wide - reaching cultural, psychological, political and ideological problems and issues» as well as biomedical and clinical ones -LSB-(Hepworth, 1997), p. 233].

Looking at painting always involves perception and interpretation, but Brierley's convoluted pictures seem defined by their capacity to trigger pareidolia, a psychological phenomenon whereby a viewer recognises shapes in abstract patterns.

The artists included in Custom Car Commandos utilize the auto body as a vehicle for socioeconomic, political, environmental, and psychological phenomena brought about by the current crisis.

Meanwhile, the «backfire effect» is a psychological phenomenon that posits when our deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory facts, we hold onto our existing beliefs even stronger (even if they're actually inaccurate).

This obsession with the Koch brothers by the left is one of the most fascinating social psychological phenomenon of our time.

On the one hand, the postmodern approach says that all psychological reality is subjectively co-created in the interaction between the individual and certain aspects of the external world, which is perceived by the individual through the «filter» of his or her own processing, rather than the «objective» attributes of the external phenomena itself.

BACKGROUND: Although several studies are concerned by the phenomenon of psychological distress at work, few studies have looked at the prevalence of psychological distress among professional workers in the regulated occupations and compare this prevalence with other occupations.

This phenomenon was examined by researchers using 222 newlyweds as subjects over a three - year period, and their results were recently published in Psychological Science.