The phrase "a tendency to respond" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's habitual or likely behavior in reaction to certain stimuli or situations.
Example: "She has a tendency to respond quickly to emails, ensuring that all inquiries are addressed promptly."
Alternatives: "a propensity to react" or "an inclination to reply."
The present findings suggest that chronic developmental Pb exposure produces an associative deficit as well as a tendency to respond rapidly, but does not affect information-processing speed.
That is to say, the correlation between self-report measures of extraversion and neuroticism may also be significant, because of something (like a tendency to respond in a socially desirable way) that both measures share in common.
The point is that Canada having success at the Olympics is often viewed as some sort of weird glitch, and the world has a tendency to respond by taking the cartridge out and blowing on it until everything works again.
Whatever, if we have always had a tendency to respond to others' passing with cant and silliness – don't speak ill of the dead, and all that – that variety of behaviour is now going nuclear.
It was shown that the range of micro-scale physical cues at the interface between the cells and the surrounding environment affects cell shape and migrations, indicating a tendency to respond differently to higher features of the micro-scale.
So there you have it: Making monetary policy, as Ben S. Bernanke once explained, is like driving a car with "an unreliable speedometer, a foggy windshield, and a tendency to respond unpredictably".
The most plausible explanation of the difference in the response patterns between French and Spanish patients in our study is the response style bias, defined as "a systematic tendency to respond to a range of questionnaire items on some other basis than the specific item content" [ 35].
(1) Children tend to have a high placebo response rate, with younger patients in clinical trials demonstrating a greater tendency to respond to placebo.
Past research has revealed that people have a strong tendency to respond to others' cooperative behavior with cooperation and to others' noncooperative behavior with noncooperation.
In the present study, the trait-anxiety subscale was used, which denotes relatively stable anxiety proneness and refers to a general tendency to respond with anxiety to perceive threats in the environment.
This is consistent with the description of Cloninger [6], according to whom '"reward dependence" is a heritable tendency to respond intensely to reward and succorance and to learn to maintain rewarded behaviour'.
