We have previously hypothesized that obsessive-compulsive (OC) tendencies are associated with a general lack of subjective conviction regarding internal states, which leads to compensatory seeking of and reliance on more discernible substitutes (proxies) for these states (Lazarov, A., Dar, R., Oded, Y., & Liberman, N. (2010).
Instead of scrutiny of the true nature of the evidence, a conviction regarding a "large and compelling literature" seems to have developed from a relatively small number of meta-analyses over a cumulative trail of secondary citations (Furnham, 2008, p. 204).
Subjects' conviction regarding the effectiveness of laser acupuncture or the history of having received acupuncture treatments before did not correlate with the frequency or intensity of sensations reported.
MIT has a very strong conviction regarding the importance of undergraduates having experience in research," he said.
Nick has conviction regarding laptops on stage.
You see, our 1-year-old new church plant was kicked out of our parent denomination because of our convictions regarding including the LGBTQ community.
His interest in the economic advancement of his parishioners for example, through the introduction of newer methods of agriculture and his political convictions regarding the oppression of the people by the Spanish authorities caused the latter to regard him with suspicion.
Under Mr. Blunt's proposal, they said in a letter to lawmakers, "a small employer or health plan could ban maternity care for women due to religious convictions regarding out-of-wedlock pregnancies".
If I can be sure of one thing about the moneyed mess that college sports in this country have become, it is that I don't feel sorry for the schools that have willingly made basketball and football coaches the highest-paid public employees in thirty-nine oft ofiftyty states while maintaining their showy convictions regarding the sanctity of amateurism.
In February , 1947 Truman's Secretary of State, George Marshall, visited Princeton University on the occasion of Washington's birthday and declared, "I doubt seriously whether a man can think with full wisdom and with deep convictions regarding some of the basic international issues today who has not at least reviewed in his mind the period of the Peloponnesian War and the Fall of Athens".
