Sentences with phrase «seemingly irrational»

The investment model of commitment processes is rooted in interdependence theory and emerged from the broader scientific zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s that sought to understand seemingly irrational persistence in social behavior.

They must invite the seemingly irrational and emotional urges alongside the rational problem - solving capacities of the more logical brain.

Without any clear rational response to a seemingly irrational reaction, the accused is often left with no response but anger, or a desire for time away from this person they suddenly feel no affection for.

Love can bring out powerful forces in us such as intense hatred, extreme jealousy, and gut wrenching fears of abandonment that can make us act in seemingly irrational ways.

My position on this topic is probably a bit jaded as I have experienced directly and indirectly the «cruel and unusual treatment of employees & #; i.e. blindsided layoffs, unfair shifts in job roles, pay cuts, seemingly irrational staff restructuring, and so on.

That seemingly irrational decision was perfectly rational from the utility's viewpoint, because California does not recognize nuclear power as low - carbon energy nor discourage a utility for replacing it with fossil fuels.

In his use of mass - produced goods and vernacular culture rendered in an anonymous style, Rosenquist's work recalls that of Andy Warhol, while his seemingly irrational, mysterious pictorial combinations owe a debt to Surrealism.

Temkin pushes the program to perform an impossible task: to draw a solid color or gradient with a palette of incompatible colors, thus exposing the dithering algorithm's complex, seemingly irrational patterning system.

Her animal friends help her navigate through a seemingly irrational world.

Americans were «obsessed with Apple,» she said, and her goal was to trigger that same, seemingly irrational desire for Samsung's devices.

Of course the seemingly irrational King Ranch Super Duty is anything but, and anything but alone in the mighty American pickup truck market.

The unpredictable and sometimes seemingly irrational behavior exhibited by young students is simply a product of their biology — the frontal cortex, the area of the brain that controls reasoning and helps us think before we act, develops much later in our development.

Furious, Margaret storms upstairs and locks herself in the low.Penny is hired to replace Dorothy and while trying to justify to Margaret this seemingly irrational choice, Bob spots Dr. Stanway being hustled out of his practice by a group of burly policemen.

Although seemingly irrational, she is on a path toward increasingly riskier drug seeking behaviors, as the reward pathways in her brain are strengthened in support of actions that increase her drug exposure.

Through it all, Las Vegas» building boom continued, fueled by increasing casino revenue, a spike in tourist visits and a seemingly irrational mortgage and real estate market.

Part of what's behind this seemingly irrational belief may lie in what's called implicit social cognition — the deep - rooted assumptions we all carry around, and may act on without realizing it.

This sabre - rattling sounds like absurd talk from a megalomaniac madman, yet nobody would like a seemingly irrational leader to possess nuclear weapons.

Instead Brown's past fuels his seemingly irrational hope.

When a child launches into a seemingly irrational crying jag, it's natural to want to shut him up.

That email inspired me to write about food waste, although my only intention was to decry this seemingly irrational regulation prohibiting donation to charity.

Deficit spending in a healthy, full - employment economy is seemingly irrational.

Not exact matches

But paying attention to the prophets in this season reminds us that the sort of waiting and preparing that God calls us to as citizens of this upside - down Kingdom is the active kind that demolishes obstructions and levels the playing field, that binds the brokenhearted and liberates the imprisoned, that beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, and bets it all by going all in on this irrational and seemingly impossible vision of peace on earth.

In some of the most vivid pages in The Fascist Revolution, Mosse describes Schuler trying to cure Friedrich Nietzsche of his madness with an ancient Roman spring rite, bizarre seances, theosophical preachments, and much other anti «Christian and anti «Enlightenment nonsense» seemingly harmless until one realizes the culture of irrational barbarism it did its part in conjuring.

This research highlights how an evolutionary lens could help explain the biologicial origins of seemingly «irrational» decision - making biases like the framing effect.

And on the fiction front, Cristi Puiu, in Aurora, fastidiously observed his main character's increasingly irrational behavior in a perhaps deliberately failed attempt to get inside the head of a seemingly normal individual who commits four acts of homicide.

The artist in the post-world war era were fascinated by the concept of what is seemingly madness or irrational.

Once we accept this about ourselves and about our partner, we can begin to understand the seemingly «irrational» and «out - of - control» as part and parcel of an ancient alarm system that perceives and reacts outside of our conscious control and intent and calls for a different kind of response.