The phrase "prone to think" is correct and can be used in written English.
The phrase is used to express a tendency to think a certain way. For example, "He was prone to think the worst of any situation".
We are prone to think in terms of individual actors whose doings set predictable chains of events in motion.
Savers are prone to think that the fixed flow of payments offered by debt is safer than it actually is.
Joseph Dwyer, a heroic medic in the early days of the invasion, when Americans were still prone to think of it as a triumphal, liberating war.
Even stereotypical leftie-liberals are often prone to think of the banks as a law-unto-themselves: present on the high street, but somehow immune to the actions of ordinary Joes.
Ms. Weld, who is half-Urugauyan and half-Venezuelan, said that her Latin American friends are prone to think that a connection to the chief executive of any company immediately offers preferential service at the highest levels.
We are prone to think that the world is more regular and predictable than it really is, because our memory automatically and continuously maintains a story about what is going on, and because the rules of memory tend to make that story as coherent as possible and to suppress alternatives.
Green told me that he had been prone to "obsessive thought spirals for as long as I could remember" — but he'd had good therapy, starting when he was a teen-ager, and felt that his emotions were "fairly well managed".
At Stock Spirits, Western Gate Private Investment's ("WGPI") complaints of "spiraling costs" and a board prone to "group-think" also resulted in the appointment of two NEDs following a shareholder vote.
Teams low in either trait were either too combative (if they were high in cognitive diversity and low in psychological safety) or too prone to group-think (if the reverse was true).
Nonvoters were less prone than likely voters to think the state budget is a problem, and far more likely to support school construction bonds.
Unfortunately, all that chance taking, speedy working, and positive thinking makes these individuals more prone to error, less likely to think things through, and usually unprepared with a plan B if things go wrong.
