Sentence examples for fixed trait from inspiring English sources

It is unknown whether behavioural type is a genetically fixed trait or a phenotypic response to environmental factors [17], but the low numbers of individuals observed in this study exhibiting intermediate behavioural types and the lack of a strong relationship between depth and behaviour within coastal and frontal cod may be evidence for genetic determination.

But empathy is not a fixed trait, like eye colour.

Some psychologists, myself included, argue that empathy is less a fixed trait, like height, than a learnable skill, like Scrabble.

Until recently, the overwhelming consensus in psychology was that intelligence was essentially a fixed trait.

The students who believed that their intelligence was a fixed trait were so concerned about appearing to be deficient that they preferred to stay home.

Carol Dweck, a psychologist at Columbia University, has found that people generally hold one of two fairly firm beliefs about their intelligence: they consider it either a fixed trait or something that is malleable and can be developed over time.

For instance, Loeuille and Leibold (2008b) modeled an evolving species in one patch with an environment that cycled between the fixed environments of two patches inhabited by species with matching fixed traits.

As Pavlov's dogs haunted the Western imagination a century ago, with their seeming demonstration of the easy mechanization of minds, so Belyaev's foxes haunt ours, with their seeming demonstration of the surprising plasticity of fixed traits.

This makes sense, because "stereotypes" are essentially beliefs about groups' fixed traits.

Conservation ecology research, management and modeling often assume species-specific fixed traits ignoring intraspecific variation.

Rather than viewing masculinity and femininity as fixed traits, these theorists represent human beings as more flexible and disposed to enact both "masculine" and "feminine" behaviors in different contexts.