Sentences with phrase «seemingly irrational behavior»

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.

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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.

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 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.