Sentence examples for normal propensity from inspiring English sources

Perceptual confusion may arise because of the normal propensity of visual speech perception to evoke auditory percepts.

There are pitifully few examples of women on television, in films and in advertising who have "normal" sexual appetites and a "normal" propensity for romantic relationships -- and even then these images are often still problematic because of obvious connections with food or diets, self-hatred or depression, unrealistic representations, and so on.

To successfully avoid detection, the deceiver must calculate the odds of being detected, remember the previous responses given, inhibit the normal propensity towards truth-telling, and then choose an appropriate strategy prior to making a response.

In this postpartum sample, the responsibilities and lifestyle changes of caring for a new infant did not affect the mother's normal propensity to expose herself to light, whether outdoors, in areas of her home that receive natural light through windows, or under artificial lighting of an indoor environment.

If Dr Marsh is correct, psychopaths and extreme altruists may be the result of similar, rare combinations of genes underpinning the more normal human propensity to be moderately altruistic.

As the authors noted: "This research demonstrates why and how the prevalence of a disdained personality trait might be leveraged to generate net environmental gain, as a direct consequence of normal narcissists' propensity to engage, as expected, in highly self-absorbed consumption behaviour".

However, obesity when combined with other baseline lifestyle risk-factors (e.g., psychological distress, physical inactivity, and/or smoking) was associated with significant increased cumulative costs as compared with normal weight propensity-matched healthy controls (with no other lifestyle risk-factors present at baseline).

For this reason, BRCA is considered a tumor suppressor gene; the normal BRCA reduces the propensity for a cell to become cancerous.

Rather, our results suggest that variability exists among ovarian cancer patients with respect to the propensity of normal stroma to become activated.

What is not clear is whether the propensity for normal polymorphic variation in the CAG repeats of some of these genes also occurs in non-primates.

Although wild-type striata possesses this propensity, the normal HD CAG repeat does not actually expand because it does not present a sufficiently long target to be susceptible to the processes that mediate expansion.