Sentence examples for heightened tendency to from inspiring English sources

Moral sensitivity is a heightened tendency to notice morally relevant features of situations.

It is possible that after a relatively brief CIT treatment, serotonergic neurons might have a greater reservoir of intracellular 5-HT, or a heightened tendency to retain intracellular 5-HT due to the reduction in neuronal activity which dissipates with extended treatment.

Moreover, sympatric females were more likely to have aggressive encounters with males than allopatric females, suggesting a heightened tendency to recognize males as competitors.

But she has only once played a grand slam semi-final, and the 20-year-old's lack of experience, heightening a tendency to get over-tense on big occasions, may weigh against her.

Mr. Tracy heightens the Mexican tendency to be intensely decorative and he is unabashedly frank, sometimes to the point of ghoulishness.

At first, his problems had been fairly subtle, not much different from the reimmersion issues other Alpha Company soldiers were dealing with: a reluctance to be in crowded places, a heightened startle reflex, a tendency to watch the side of the road for anything unusual, as if even in rural western Pennsylvania a roadside bomb were still a possibility.

It can be summarized thus: misconceptions and myths about the threat of radiation led to heightened anxiety and the tendency to associate every observed health effect with Chernobyl.

Al Gore was criticized during the 2000 campaign for a tendency to heighten the truth, but it was innocent compared with the vile exaggeration that W. and Cheney employed to trick the country into going along with an invasion of Iraq.

Social media has a tendency to heighten any event or occasion.

The colours were rich and saturated, an effect heightened by the lens's tendency to darken the corners of the frame to create a tunnel-like vignetting effect, and there were dramatic contrasts between light and dark.

This " tendency to doubt" was heightened by the unlimited growth of the published literature which is very difficult to access and select.