Sentences with phrase «shape human behaviour»

It's the only sustainable way to shape human behaviour at large... and we need to use our purchasing power leverage to compel other countries (our suppliers) to follow suit.

In the open letter, whose signatories include Turner - prize winners Simon Starling, Mark Leckey, Jeremy Deller and Elizabeth Price, the artists argue that Bruguera's aim in her work «is not a question of direct political action but to open our eyes to the injustices and social issues in the world and to expose the mechanisms of power and protocol that shape human behaviour».

This differs from either positive or pessimistic accounts in that rather than subscribing humans to one predominant characteristic (good or bad), it stresses the pivotal role of emotional and contextual factors which shape human behaviour and morality.

A fundamental way in which culture shapes human behaviour is through self - construal style, or in how people define themselves and their relation to others in their environment (Markus & Kitayama 1991; Triandis 1995; Nisbett et al. 2001).

Not exact matches

Unless we can start to fill in the vast gaps in our knowledge of how human behaviours are encoded in the brain, any debate is destined to be shaped more by social and medical prejudices about drugs than by science.

We now understand the chain of action: how our genes shape this function in our brains and how that, in turn, leads to human behaviour.

IN A NUTSHELL: Lo uses research in evolutionary biology, psychology, neuroscience and artificial intelligence to explain how human behaviour shapes the markets, leading to swings between stability and instability, profit and loss, innovation and regulation.