Considering premarital cohabitation and civil marriage as indicators of a lower religiosity, we do not have evidence that "external" displays of religion conviction have a direct effect on marital stability.
It rallies against despair, inspires extraordinary acts of defiance, values moral principle over external authority, and places inner conviction above brute force.
At the heart of the dispute is a conviction that an external agency working to maximize profits cannot provide the same quality and commitment to art as an in-house team.
At the heart of the dispute is a conviction that an external agency working to maximise profits cannot provide the same quality and commitment to art as an in-house team.
His decisions flow from inner conviction that overwhelms all external factors: evidence; other people's views; strategic calculation; reality.
As Rotter says "An internal locus of control refers to the conviction that events are contingent upon one's own behaviour, and an external locus of control refers to the conviction that events are not contingent upon one's actions but upon luck, chance, fate or powerful others".
Rather than contagion, it is an emergent norm or rule that governs external appearances and, to a lesser extent, internal convictions in collective behaviour.
Spiritual confidence is that unique and palpable sense of absolute conviction that cannot be affected by external or internal fluctuations.
They recommend that institutions claiming to value interdisciplinary collaboration need to find innovative ways to reward and acknowledge such collaborations, because "external calls for change resonate with our own conviction that we can do better than the traditional introductory course to help life science students learn and appreciate physics".
While the body can easily be subject to domination and control by others, our mind, along with our thoughts, beliefs and convictions, are to a large extent beyond external constraint.
The Seeking Proxies for Internal States (SPIS) hypothesis predicts that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with a deficit in subjective convictions, which may lead to a reliance on external substitutes for the perceptions of an individual's internal states.
