"Our tendency is to press it more aggressively.
If the Bradley and McCain candidacies illustrate our tendency to misapply the term maverick, the G.O.P.'s single-digit trinity suggests our tendency to overrate it.
Because of our tendency to care passionately, even obsessively, about the things we love dearly.
Our tendency has been to become overly committed to one country or regime.
Our tendency to want to help other people – other sentient beings indeed".
One is "risk homeostasis" — our tendency, once we're safer, to take more risks.
Present bias describes our tendency to overvalue the present and discount the future.
Facing dense social complexity, our tendency is to oversimplify and diminish.
Therefore our tendency is to demonise figures such as McVeigh, Adolf Hitler or even Hermann Göring.
This, in effect, puts our tendency of contextual cueing to work in your favor.
I am worried about our tendency to adopt a fatalistic, pessimistic perception of history.
