While their new career plans may have been initially motivated by perceptions of a grim job market, many are also seeking alternatives that better suit their personal goals, lifestyle aspirations, interests, and values.
The majority of counseling and testing clients were motivated by perceptions of being at risk of HIV infection.
There was less in their heads to be scrubbed away, less capacity for skepticism and dissent, and they were motivated by the perception that submission to Party doctrine offered them an upward path.
Arguably, they are also motivated by the perception that the individual-centered modes of inquiry are at a disadvantage in discovering the facts.
Hobbes' conception of human beings as fundamentally motivated by their perception of what is in their own best interest implies the challenge, important for Enlightenment moral philosophy, to construct moral duties of justice and benevolence out of such limited materials.
She further articulated how this perception motivated her to shave her legs "if she was going to the gym" (Jo, 27 years), as "legs look sexier when they're hairless" (27 years).
According to John McDowell (1978), it can explain a virtuous person's action without the help of a related desire playing a causal role (although we can rightly attribute a desire to a person as a consequence of their being motivated by the perception of a reason).
Perhaps motivated by the perception of a public with less discretionary dollars to spend, almost every professional organization, from NASCAR to Major League Soccer, has undertaken community service as a regular activity for not just players but for staff and team officials as well.
Of 164 complaints analysed, 66% were motivated by the perception of a medical error (47% during the first time period vs. 73% during the second time period; p = 0.001).
Individuals' job acquirement strategies, in terms of which resources to mobilize and through which system, are motivated by their perceptions of the local employment environment.
