Sentences with phrase «traditional attitudes toward»

Abusers (and, often, their victims) tend to endorse interpersonal violence and hold highly traditional attitudes toward marriage and sex or gender roles (e.g., they believe that husbands should be the dominant partner in marriage and that it is acceptable for a husband to hit a wife).

Traditional attitudes toward self - published books are changing.

Traditional attitudes toward the natural environment make Indians, like the Japanese, more disposed than Americans to pursue happiness modestly.15 And almost six decades after his assassination, Gandhi's traditionalist emphasis on austerity and self - abnegation remains a powerful part of Indian identity.

This will tend to make him, or her, hostile to societies traditionally organized to favor heterosexuality and the family, and persuade him to advocate policies that seek not tolerance but the transformation of popular or traditional attitudes toward homosexuality.

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The more traditional approach, which developed out of mean variance analysis some fifty years ago, tailors an individual's portfolio to his or her age, young investors should take more risk with stocks, and attitudes toward risk, conservative investors should hold more cash.

He convincingly illustrates the distance between African - American women and men on key issues — such as attitudes toward sexuality and commitment to traditional moral codes — that directly impact the health and longevity of heterosexual relationships.

Because of traditional Christian attitudes toward homosexuality as inherently sinful, there has been little help for the LGBT movement from the black community.

Traditional Hawaiian attitudes toward time and work are very different from the hurried drivenness of most Westerners, who seldom have time «to catch their breath.»

Most teens already know the traditional moral attitudes toward sex.

The ecumenical conversations between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity distinguished three contemporary Reformed attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church: of those who remain unconvinced that the Catholic Church has actually dealt with the fundamental issues that divided Rome and the Reformation, those who «have not been challenged or encouraged to reconsider their traditional stance» and remain «largely untouched by the ecumenical exchanges of recent times,» and those who have engaged «in a fresh constructive and critical evaluation both of the contemporary teaching and practice of the Roman Catholic Church and of the classical controverted issues.»

This is evident in his interpretation of Scripture and his attitude toward traditional interpretations.

Microbiome studies are demolishing the medical community's traditional «us versus them» attitude toward bacteria and other microbes.

Although the results were mixed, Active Physics consistently outperformed traditional lecture courses in conceptual learning and in attitudes toward learning and problem solving, said Regina Frey, the Moog professor of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in chemistry who co-led the evaluation team.

One factor among younger adults may be their attitudes toward traditional religious ideas.

-- Meshari Alhajri, Moscow, Idaho, US, Attitudes of Special Education Teachers and School Psychologists Toward IEPs Developed Using Traditional Assessments vs IEPs Develop Using an MI Assessment, [email protected]

Research has found that the attitudes students take toward learning are heavily influenced by whether they have been led to attribute their success (or failure) to innate ability, to effort, or to other factors — and that traditional classroom practices such as grading and competition lead them to explain the results in terms of ability (or its absence) and to minimize effort whenever possible.

A socio - economic team investigated the scale of economic impacts in the Raja Ampat area, and interviewed local residents about their attitudes toward their environment, land ownership and traditional regulations for managing access to natural resources.

He thereby undermines traditional notions of value, and highlights unsustainable attitudes toward luxury in a world brimming with deprivation.

She blames its snobbish attitude toward traditional craft media such as pottery and its mistaken conviction that his dressing up is a gimmick rather than a compulsion rooted in childhood trauma.

Sure, most associates may still have minimum billable hour requirements, but general attitudes about compensation seem to be shifting toward models where the killer gets less than the traditional lion's share in order to feed the less voracious members of the pride.

Instead of the traditional methods of using scare tactics, reviewing the driver handbook, or practicing driving skills with a simulator, this new approach would focus primarily on changing the driver's attitude toward the driving task.

Traditional and non-traditional viewpoints on parenting may yield very different styles of child rearing, attitudes toward sex, and your approaches to solving problems, for example.

There are probably too many factors related to our society's changing attitudes toward marriage to identify a single one that rises above the rest, other than to state that society's increasingly strong move away from traditional marriage is real.