Of course, expecting this kind of information to have the desired impact is a tall order, because such information has to compete with the media's penchant for reporting on individual cases of abuse and with the individuals' penchant for motivated reasoning, i.e., for receiving and accepting only information that is in line with their biased preconceptions.
The 55-year-old, who has spent days with Kim on several visits to North Korea, has a very different attitude than many in the West about the missile-launching leader with a reported penchant for killing his enemies.
In January, political scientist Matthew MacWilliams reported findings that a penchant for authoritarianism – not income, education, gender, age or race –predicted Trump support.
The New York Post, which has a penchant for covering Mr. Strazzullo and his clients, reported that courthouse sources said Mr. De La Hoya "shelled out a whopping $20 million" to settle the suit.
This observation is consistent with previous reports demonstrating a penchant for inclusion bodies to be protective [12], [73], a fact which has called into question how visible protein aggregation can be associated with neuropathological abnormalities even though aggregates themselves are not universally predictive of neurodegeneration [3], [74].
The Catholic magazine La Famiglia Cristiana has described Berlusconi's penchant for beautiful women as "a disease, something uncontrollable," reports the Telegraph.
One N.F.L. team executive said a predraft report on Hernandez also included his penchant for hanging around an unsavory crowd from his hometown, Bristol, Conn.
Bin Laden also had a penchant for biographical content and had a 9/11 truther video on his computer, Gizmodo reported.
The paper's headline reported: "Exclusive – selfie queen's hell", a reference to Karen's penchant for posting slightly risqué photographs of herself on Twitter.
Shoppers with a penchant for meatballs and mattresses have helped flatpack furniture firm Ikea report a surge in UK sales.
