Sentences with phrase «rooted human tendency»

Their goal is to get as many people as possible to buy nothing at all over a 24 - hour span on Friday in the United States (and Saturday elsewhere around the world), as a small blow against what they say are the destructive efforts of advertisers and corporations to fuel the deep - rooted human tendency to want the next new thing.

There's a deep - rooted human tendency to glorify the biggest.

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6 Nevertheless, the roots of race prejudice are as old as the human race in the tendency to like those who are like oneself and to dislike those who for any reason, biological or cultural, are different.

Racial prejudice is, first of all, a psychological factor, rooting in collective egotism and pride and the pervasive human tendency to dislike the different.

It's human nature to root for winners and scoring, and the media's propensity to overhype these teams only exasperates this tendency.

It's easy to root for winners and high - scoring games, but this basic human tendency can easily be exploited by oddsmakers.

It's human nature to root for winners and scoring, and the media's propensity to over-hype these teams only exasperates this tendency.

Given its Humanistic roots, Gestalt tends to follow the core belief that there is a natural tendency for the human organism to «grow» in the direction of health, functionality, and intimacy, if the conditions can be established for that growth to occur.