Sentence examples for much human behavior from inspiring English sources

Homo Emoticus types look at wars, aid workers or suicide bombers, and they insist that incentives fail to account for much human behavior.

It is hard to underestimate how much human behavior is driven by aversion to inconsistency.

For theorists accustomed to the panoply of existing cognitive constructs, which admittedly do a good job of predicting much human behavior, the value of this analysis may be obscure.

Behavioral ecologists also believe that much of human behavior can be explained by appealing to evolution while rejecting the idea held by evolutionary psychologists that one period of our evolutionary history in the source of all our important psychological adaptations (Irons 1998).

And if so much of the fly's behavior is under tight genetic control, how much of human behavior is also framed by the genes?

There seems to be a general feeling, as a Hastings Center working group put it, that "behavioral genetics will never explain as much of human behavior as was once promised".

So comparing the dogs of today with wolves of today (as much of the science is based) is like looking at chimps and then extrapolating much of human behavior from them.

In this case, it probably doesn't provide much about human behavior that many older children haven't discerned already.

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery.

(David Linden, "The Compass of Pleasure") That would be the "medial forebrain pleasure circuit," which, according to Linden, inspires much of human behavior and is "the anatomical region most closely governed by laws, religious prohibitions, and social mores".

The female lust for meat, Dr. Shlain suggests, is responsible for the evolution of much of human behavior, including intimate relations between men and women, foresight and puzzle solving, complex social interactions, different psychological moods between men and women, and any number of human traits that we now see in the best and worst of us.