Women seem particularly attuned to seeking out not partners but rehabilitation projects, though there are plenty of men who reprise the pillar of strength routine when they could do with support themselves.
"The eye is attuned to picking out the human form, so if you can highlight arms, gloves, the head, the movement of feet and knees with retro-reflective garments, you can build-up the impression of a human silhouette – which is very attention-grabbing," says Raeburn.
If something new entered the scene, it might have been a predator, or a food source, so we're highly attuned to seek out and pay attention to anything new.
As New Yorkers, we are so attuned to checking out (or badmouthing) the newest hip restaurants (or hybrid pastries...ahem cronut), that waiting outside an hour or two in advance seems less like a hazing process, than the necessary means to an end.
You can prove literally anything with pop science, but it's true that we like to think of animals as almost supernaturally attuned to sniffing out people you would never want to have a drink with, barking their little tails off at anyone with so much as a whiff of dickheadedness about them, and if you're OK by the dog, then you're probably OK.
You can prove literally anything with pop science, but it's true that we like to think of animals as almost supernaturally attuned to sniffing out people you would never want to have a pint with, barking their little bollocks off at anyone with so much as a whiff of dickheadedness about them, and if you're OK by the dog, then you're probably OK.
The Welsh-Nigerian choreographer Oguike has been compared to Mark Morris: he's deeply attuned to music, seeking out complex and wide-ranging compositions.
As the recipient of one of the first right-hand-drive versions of the Tesla Model S to hit Britain's roads, personally handed to her at an event in London last week by Elon Musk, the carmaker's wealthy boss, she is clearly attuned to billionaires dishing out pleasure too.
Players are creatures of habit, and get used to that winning feeling – or the other side of it, they get attuned to missing out.
He seemed washed out, and insufficiently attuned to his party's truculent mood.
