Sentence examples for human willingness from inspiring English sources

The third problem is that the pro-wealth cultural vision may be overly optimistic about human willingness to embrace the idea of responsibility.

There is evidence, however, that human willingness to pay (WTP) for conservation declines with distance a phenomenon we call "spatial value decay".

This is the darkest resonance of the Akeda: not as a story of Divine will and human willingness, but as a description of how close the brink really is.

The Persistence of False Beliefs from Brand Loyalty to Religion The impact of false gossip is just one example of the human willingness to believe what others in the community are saying, regardless of its relationship to the truth, from religious belief systems that contradict everyday experiences to confidence in fashionable brand names that is not backed up by the quality of the product.

An article explaining the experience sums it up quite neatly: "humans' willingness to shift behavior is directly correlated to our sense of control".

He acknowledges his colonial legacy, how it has moulded and changed his world, in good and bad ways, but his greatest quarrel with colonialism was its inability to see the colonised, to accept them as human; its willingness to falsify and deny others' history in order to justify its mission.

Experimental economics (EE) [2, 3] is a powerful tool for mechanism research and decision optimization, which considers the influences of human subjective willingness and gaming behaviors that are however absent in the traditional research in the economy and social science.

In such a climate, faith in the spread of human rights and willingness to give it a helping hand may not be a liberal illusion it may be realistic.

But the depth and breadth of human altruism, the willingness to forgo immediate personal gain for the long-term common good, far exceeds behaviors seen even in other large-brained highly social species like chimpanzees and dolphins, and it has as such been difficult to understand.

In this slim, surprisingly haunting book, Dolnick reminds us that part of being a healthy and functional human is a willingness to act a little bit selfish, a little cruel in our ability to walk away from the pain of others.

Carson then asks her readers, "By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being?" Her willingness to pose the moral question led "Silent Spring" to be compared with Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," written nearly a century earlier.