Sentence examples for our predisposition from inspiring English sources

Ide attributed some of the film's success to our predisposition towards nostalgia.

Does our love of a contest – in which you get to barrack, have a view, even bet – explain our predisposition for leadership contests in politics?

Lab-based taxonomy, she argues, yields counterintuitive results, whereas visual classifications logically express our predisposition to order the world in informal, sensible ways.

Our predisposition to laugh when others laugh was a behavioural trait exploited in live recorded US sitcoms where the audiences were often seeded with paid extras picked specifically for their infectious laughs.

"We are going to look at these waivers, especially on airplane spare parts, and our predisposition is going to be, view them favorably, as opposed to the prior administration's policy," said a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter.

According to Shermer, this mental process, which accounts for gaps in logic, is deeply related to our predisposition toward belief.

People are predisposed to be divided by morality, but if we have suddenly become more divided that can't be explained by our predispositions.

I'd like to think that we might be able to factor in our predispositions and bias when society chooses how to apportion scarce research dollars.

The fact is that, with horses as with everything else, we see what we are predisposed to see, and then we mould them, consciously and unconsciously, to fit in with our predispositions.

Whatever may be the case, the chairs to which we find ourselves attracted say something about our predispositions, particularly perhaps about our way of relating not only to chairs but to the people whose personalities they seem to reflect, the people we choose as friends.

Through Bina, research universities, pharmaceutical companies and clinicians can get access to data that focuses on the rare variants in our genetics — in other words, those that cause our predispositions to cancer, newborn disorders, down syndrom, sickle cell, and so on.