Eliot's own research is in something called "neuroplasticity," the idea that our inborn tendencies and traits, gender-based or otherwise, are shaped by our experience.
The surprises that result when surgical instruments, gunshots, a clenched fist, a lit cigar, careening vehicles, a huge spider, a startled bird, and a falling body leap at a viewer's face actually detract from the story's intrinsic interest whether crime is a product of experience or of inborn tendencies.
On October 3rd, Boyd K. Packer, who, at eighty-six, is the second-highest leader in the Mormon Church, proclaimed, "Some suppose that they were born preset and cannot overcome what they feel are inborn tendencies toward the impure and unnatural".
The surprises that result when surgical instruments, gunshots, a clenched fist, a lit cigar, careening vehicles, a huge spider, a startled bird, and a falling body leap at a viewer's face actually detract from the story's intrinsic interest — whether crime is a product of experience or of inborn tendencies.
The concept of neuroplasticity tells us that inborn tendencies and traits, gender-based or otherwise, are also shaped by experience.
It is heartbreaking to watch her inborn tendencies towards empathy clash with the developmentally-appropriate Id of an almost-Kindergartner. Having a brother with a potpourri of special needs only complicates things further.
And they may also have an inborn tendency to put on weight.
All twining plants exhibit handedness, which scientists term chirality, but botanists believe it has nothing to do with which hemisphere they grow in, but rather is an inborn tendency that varies by species.
And if, even, we set Happiness in some ultimate Term pursued by inborn tendency, then on this head, too, we must allow it to animals from the moment of their attaining this Ultimate: the nature in them comes to a halt, having fulfilled its vital course from a beginning to an end.
An inborn tendency to share the feelings of others -- to feel joy at their joy, match suffering to their suffering (first labeled "Empathy" by psychologist and art theorist Theodor Lipps) -- probably forms the basis of our aversion to distress, and our willingness to help others.
In terms of circulation, PVD patients had an inborn tendency to respond differently to various stimuli such as cold [ 29].
