Sentence examples for a human tendency from inspiring English sources
He chalked it up to a human tendency to romanticize nature and resist change.
The problem is that people don't "click on and engage" with content that doesn't conform to their world view, according to a human tendency towards confirmation bias.
The reversal of Newt Gingrich's position on climate change is just the most recent illustration of a problem that in part is driven by a calculated and cynical effort to defend vested interests, and in part feeds on a human tendency (reinforced by the prevailing economic model) to discount future threats.
But it's worth beginning a conversation about ways to live safer in such hazard zones given that this storm season is just getting under way and that big regions of America's tornado hot zone have deep vulnerability resulting from runaway growth and a human tendency to discount threats that have a low probability but disastrous potential.
Some argue that anthropomorphism is a human tendency that must be overcome in order to do good science, because it relies an unjustified generalization from linguistic humans to nonlinguistic animals.
There is a human tendency to change perspective when going from outsider to insider.
Self-enhancement is a pervasive human tendency in a variety of social contexts (e.g., Goffman, 1959; Schlenker, 2003), including social networking sites (see Hancock & Toma, 2009; Siibak, 2009).
It presents itself as a step-by-step analysis of a universal human tendency, but it's really best read as a montage of perceptions and quotations that, like the condition of not-quite-fulfilment it suggests we aspire to, resists clinching its own arguments.
Was it a natural human tendency to believe in a hypothesis so strongly that somehow data that do not seem to fit are edited out?
It's a very human tendency to want to relax and rest for a moment after so much hard work.
A final feature of Rawls's account of rationality is a normal human tendency he calls "the Aristotelian principle" (TJ sect.65).
