Sentence examples for mental traits from inspiring English sources

But we went further than chimpanzees did in attending to mental traits.

Miller, G, (2006) Mental traits as fitness indicators: expanding evolutionary psychology's adaptionism.

By Anthony Gottlieb Exactly how our mental traits became established makes no practical difference.

A. It's important to distinguish between the mental traits that I think really are handicaps from those that aren't.

To study something scientifically, you first have to measure it, and psychologists have developed tests for many mental traits.

Q. Let's talk about why early humans focused on the brain and mental traits when selecting their mates.

If there's one mental trait that's highly correlated with being an overachiever, it's anxiety.

Higher activity in all these areas showed a correlation with lower SAI-E insight in the patients and this was significant in the right middle frontal gyrus for mental illness traits and the left precuneus for positive traits.

While hypoactivation (in relation to mental illness traits) was noted, so too was bilateral inferior parietal (plus somatosensory cortex and ACC) hyper-activation in relation to physical illness terms which could plausibly be interpreted as correlating with 'somatic insight'.

There was a significant 3-way interaction between trait-type, evaluation and group on the proportions of 'Yes/A bit' responses made (F (2.1, 26.7) = 3.58, p < 0.05) with schizophrenia patients making higher proportions to self-evaluated mental illness traits than the healthy controls, as would be expected (although such terms eg 'crazy' were accepted quite frequently by controls [ 54]).

The work is a remarkable example of "a purely mental personality trait being correlated with a basic physical sensation," says Vilayanur Ramachandran, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, and a pioneer in the study of mirror neurons.