Probability is thought of as a physical propensity, or disposition, or tendency of a given type of physical situation to yield an outcome of a certain kind, or to yield a long run relative frequency of such an outcome.
The last term refers to the tendency of perceptual input to arouse physical action tendencies that in turn affect the way the perceptual input is interpreted.
Epigenetics means that our physical and mental tendencies were not set in stone during the Pleistocene age, as evolutionary psychology sometimes seems to claim.
A thought experiment: is the physical control and tendency toward actorly immobility in the classic Hollywood cinema an artistic invention or a reflection of society overall?
O'Neill has a physical tic, a tendency to turn his head to his left in profile in the middle of a conversation, when he wants a moment to himself to actually think.
At 1 dpi, the mice infected with APMV serotype 1 and 2 had a pronounced decrease in their physical activity, a tendency to huddle and very ruffled fur compared to control mice.
Regarding aspects such as family, social contact with peers and physical health, a tendency towards amelioration was documented which, however, did not reach any level of significance (see Table 3).
Perhaps contradictorily, to the seemingly consistent association between job dissatisfaction and increased physical exposures, the tendency of workers to report relatively better general health and less mental exhaustion with increased job physical exposures suggests that at least moderately strenuous jobs may somehow be beneficial to one's perceived well-being (if not job satisfaction).
So, there is this tendency in nature, in physics, for physical substances to go from simplicity to complexity.
These interesting tendencies in physical properties of the membranes are the consequence of the decrease in flexibility of chains due to an increase in intramolecular and intermolecular coordination between active sites of the polymer chains.
