The phrase "a higher desire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a more profound or elevated longing or aspiration, often in a philosophical or motivational context.
Example: "In pursuit of personal growth, she found that a higher desire for knowledge drove her to explore new ideas and experiences."
Alternatives: "a greater aspiration" or "an elevated longing".
Data were collected from more than 300 pupils (52% boys) from eight primary schools in Leeds and found that girls had a higher desire to be thin than boys.
Individuals with OCD recorded higher desire for control and lower sense of control relative to community controls, and a higher desire for control than the anxiety group, suggesting some specificity to OCD.
First, both in WIN and LOSS, a higher desire to win was elicited (increased activation in the mesolimbic pathway).
It could be due to a higher desire for information in general, relative lack of other competing information, or a higher degree of autonomy.
Friendship with non-coethnics not only tends to increase feelings of cultural closeness and resemblance, but was also found to be connected to a higher desire for autonomy among Turkish students in Germany (Reinders and Varadi 2008).
On most topics, girls showed a higher desire to know more, except boys' physical changes, contraception, how to know when one is ready to have sex and how to better manage sexual drive: on these topics, boys' desire to know more was higher (Table 2).
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On the one hand, BPS and flexibility appear to conflict, as BPS reduces the number of process variants and prohibits deviating from variants, whereas more process variants and degrees of freedom during execution help cope with a higher desired output variety (Pentland 2003).
Recent research from Australia found that men with a high drive for muscularity, as manifested in the muscle dysmorphia of "bigorexia", had a greater preference for traditional masculine roles, whereas men with a high desire for thinness (as in anorexia nervosa) displayed greater adherence to traditional feminine roles.
And in an ingenious experiment in which students were sat at a wooden table and asked identical questions about their health, he found that individuals with a high desire for control were more likely to tap the table and say "touch wood" when interviewed just before sitting exams than students questioned on a normal study day.
Your obligations to others are important to you, and you may have a high desire for achievement and recognition.
