As we discussed in Section 2.1, utility is merely a measure of relative behavioural dispositions given certain consistency assumptions about relations between preferences and choices.
And everything sensible we ever needed to say with our talk of mind can, at least in principle, be said in terms of behavioural dispositions or functional roles.
From the standpoint of an interpreter, there can be alternative translation manuals or schemes that are consistent with the total set of a speaker's verbal and other behavioural dispositions.
So let's analyse psychological concepts in terms of behavioural dispositions or, getting a bit more sophisticated and up to date, in terms of neural states that occupy certain complex and holistically specified functional roles.
So at any given point, a system's behavioural dispositions are determined by its precise location in its phase space, and its current location in its phase space is a function of its previous locations.
They out themselves as behavioural dispositions (an inability to commit to goals, to change in the ways we'd like to change) particularly when making these changes bring up challenges for us.
Personality refers to individual differences in cognitive styles, behavioural dispositions, and emotional responsiveness.
Trait EI refers to 'emotion related self-perceptions and behavioural dispositions relating to the perception, processing, and utilisation of emotion-laden information' (Mavroveli, Petrides, Sangareau, & Furnham, 2009, p. 259).
Evidence continues to accumulate that strongly suggests that the state of a human being's mind – which associates psychosocial factors with emotional states such as depression and with behavioural dispositions that include hostility and psychosocial lifestyle stresses – can directly and significantly influence human physiologic function and, in turn, health outcomes.
