Sentence examples for a pervasive tendency from inspiring English sources

She argues forcefully against abstinence-only education and what she sees as a pervasive tendency to view all manifestations of childhood sexuality as dangerous or disturbing.

We have a pervasive tendency to interpret and explain behavior in terms of intentional mental states.

Psychologists call this the planning fallacy -- a pervasive tendency to underestimate how long it will take to do just about anything -- and it can be attributed to several different biases.

We have found that in Ontario, as in other jurisdictions, there is a pervasive tendency for people to over-report their cancer screening histories.

In this work, we have found that in Ontario as in other jurisdictions, there is a pervasive tendency for people to over-report their cancer screening histories.

When that happened, there was a pervasive tendency to diminish the importance of those behavioral changes in favor of attitudinal data, typically showing that participants held favorable attitudes toward the activity.

There is a powerful, pervasive tendency, among philosophers, social scientists, and laypeople to dismiss their self-appraisals as reflecting ignorance, self-deception, defensive exaggeration, or courageous optimism [see SEP entry on "Feminist Perspectives on Disability", Sec. 3].

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).

The conviction that dual citizenship in this context could serve to 'contribute to improved well-being and a more rapid integration in the new society' (SOU 1999 34, p. 203 b reflects the pervasive tendency in the Swedish public documents to point out the correlation between citizenship and social integration.

One hopeful indicator in this regard is a speech Xi gave at the Central Party School in late 2009, in which he explicitly criticized the pervasive tendency toward sloganeering in domestic and foreign policy, arguing that slogans needed to be replaced by substance and hard work.

The pervasive tendency in circumstances of normal gravity to adopt patterns of movement that ensure that the end of the downward phase of our gestures coincide with the beat of the music is entirely consistent with this principle.