In this way, they can understand the need to be alert and vigilant for the tendency of this way of thinking.
What good is its tendency to warn or to consider alternative ways of thinking and doing?...And what good is all this to Black people?
Humor allows you to release tension and to show up the repressive tendencies of extremist thinking.
Feminist care-focused ethicists are quick to notice instances of female subordination and the tendencies of patriarchal societies not to properly esteem women's ways of thinking, writing, working, and loving.
The current study investigated whether tendencies to respond to mild changes in mood with depressogenic patterns of thinking mediate the relation between neuroticism and current symptoms of depression in individuals with and without a previous history of depression.
The standard approach to relative risk analysis, and the strong tendency towards individualistic reductionism in behavioral research, is so ingrained that this way of thinking is very difficult to change.
(That's the tendency to interpret any new development or evidence as an affirmation of an existing belief or way of thinking).
Moreover, this human tendency to regard particular things as sacred persisted, albeit often in less obvious ways, in modern, scientific modes of thinking.
A follower of Mises and Hayek, American economist Israel Kirzner developed this line of thinking into a unique Austrian theory of entrepreneurship (involving spontaneous learning and decision making at the individual level) that emphasized a tendency toward economic equilibrium.
