Sentence examples for preference for order from inspiring English sources
It accompanied an essay by the Yale coach Walter Camp, the so-called Father of American Football, whose preference for order over chaos led to the primary differentiating element between the new sport and its parent, English rugby: a line of scrimmage, with discrete plays, or downs, instead of scrums.
In 1994, Kruglanski and Donna Webster introduced a standard way to measure the need for closure, or N.F.C.: a forty-two-item scale that looked at the five separate motivational facets that comprised our underlying tendency for clarity and resolution — namely, the preference for order, predictability, and decisiveness, discomfort with ambiguity, and closed-mindedness.
Gabriela likens her preference for order and neatness and a close link to her engineering field of study.
Participants with a strong preference for order were made more anxious by having to complete a difficult task in a disorganized environment.
It is suggested that compulsive ordering and a drive for symmetry are extreme manifestations of the common preference for order and symmetry.
In popular culture, it's become synonymous with tidiness, or a preference for order.
Three connected studies were conducted to examine this phenomenon: a self-report measure of this behaviour was developed and validated, participants were asked to engage in tasks designed to assess preferences for order, and to assess the interference of disorderly surroundings in the completion of a stressful activity.
However, no moderating effect of motivational orientation was found on the preference for webpage Order.
But there's a guiding principle that ties together Reid's preference for regular order, and the fact that so many found what Paul was doing yesterday compelling to witness, if not agree with.
Furthermore, the model predicts that there is a strong preference for the order of appearance of traits, a feature the authors have validated by measuring some previously undetermined trait values (a proxy being the abundance of transcripts by qPCR).
The risk of other traders obtaining the same information creates time pressure on informed traders (Glosten 1994, p. 1151), which leads to a preference for market orders or aggressively priced limit orders for exploiting private information (Harris 1998, pp. 1ff).
