Sentence examples for mental stances from inspiring English sources

An underlying assumption in this literature is that students' mental stances or psychological attributes play a major role in their academic outcomes and that higher education professionals should support them by facilitating higher degrees of involvement and engagement to increase their prospects for success.

Bettelheim's "mental stance... reminds me of classical Greek sculpture, where gods and mythic heroes stand before us naked and natural," Raines writes, and even Bettelheim's suicide is judged "an act typical of him in its clarity, courage and rationality".

Disagreeing with your mental healthcare professional's stances on certain issues isn't always a big deal.

I heard that the Liberal Democrats are taking a strong stance on mental health services and that has definitely swayed my vote.

The Lib Dems' stance on mental health makes me more inclined to vote for them, but that's obviously not the only thing I'll be judging the parties on.

Under Insel's leadership, the NIMH took the stance that mental disorders and psychological problems could be understood as simple diseases of the brain.

These ideas are also applied to a causal analysis of rational action: by adopting an explanatory stance, one can characterize action through descriptions that refer to causal connections between mental states and actions.

If one takes an instrumentalist stance (Dennett 1987: Ch. 2), there is no obvious obstacle to the attribution of mental states and intentional agency to artificial systems.

The Top Gear presenter has been fiercely criticised by mental health charities for his stance, particularly in the wake of the death of footballer Gary Speed a week ago.

Descartes' work on visual perception is but one instance of his adopting a naturalistic stance toward conscious mental experience in seeking to explain aspects of such experience.

The story the west tells itself about racism is that it is always an external force, a pathological stance borne of ignorance, or mental instability.