Such a Manichean worldview (Weltanschauung) of good and evil and chaff and wheat is symptomatic of narcissistic self-absorption, a behavioral pattern well documented in the psychological literature; and empirically observed in terms of faulty reasoning, acute hostility towards others groups, rigid character attributes and blindness to one's failings.
She was not going through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself, nor was she striving to explain to her satisfaction the motive of her action.
Recent evidence suggests that younger and middle-age adults who show greater cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) to acute mental stress demonstrate better reasoning and memory skills.
Based on the above three-step line of reasoning, we hypothesized acute stress to first, attenuate the Nd; second, to do so only immediately after application of a stressor; and third, to have a preponderance of the effect in the later and less in the early Nd time range.
These were littered in among his acute sense of humor, cleverness, spatial reasoning abilities and a talent for conning women, me included, into forgiving his frequent and sometimes head-spinning transgressions.
Similarly, the effect of instructing paediatricians in meta-analytical reasoning surrounding the diagnosis of acute otitis media could be assessed by tracking prescribing activity and patient outcomes.
In light of this reasoning, it is noteworthy that acute kidney injury appeared to be about three times more frequent than CKD in the largest series of metformin-treated patients with lactic acidosis reported on to date [ 9].
Their mimicking skills are sometimes so acute that it is hard not to impute humanlike reasoning.
The process of reasoning in diagnosis is predominantly deductive, especially in acute presentations where there is a need for medical intervention.
Of course such reasoning would not have any place in situations where acute epiglottic inflammation or edema are of concern, such as in cases of smoke inhalation, angioedema, or epiglottitis.
