Sentence examples for tendency to adapt from inspiring English sources

This works, in part, by decreasing "hedonic adaptation"—or the tendency to adapt to pleasurable experiences so that they provide less pleasure as time goes on which otherwise works against gratitude.

Richardson's fashion work still tends to be edgy - he has made Kate Moss, minus her knickers, look like a world-weary call girl in the latest issue of Pop - but he has shown an increasing tendency to adapt to meet the more mainstream demands of the client.

According to Piaget, children have a tendency to adapt new observations to old naïve beliefs and misconceptions (called assimilation by Piaget) rather than having a conceptual change to new concepts explaining the phenomenon better (called accommodation by Piaget).

Indeed, in spite of creationists' opposition to evolution as a biological process, the group's ideology has shown a marked tendency to adapt and evolve when their goals are thwarted by legislative or other obstacles to proliferation: apparently, this is one of life's little ironies.

So much of what surrounds us today is appearance-driven, and there's a natural tendency to adapt to our surroundings.

This seems to reflect a tendency to adapt one's own self-construal to the situation at hand, which again may explain why people experience a certain variation in their self-construal, in which the boundaries between oneself and others can change.

To the extent that we ignore our tendencies to adapt differently in different spheres, we will spend too much on conspicuous consumption, and too little on inconspicuous consumption".

"We just use the natural tendency of algae to adapt to any environment," said Berzin.

However, I'm not going to deny that sometimes there just seems to be a tendency for some groups to adapt better to capitalism.

Indeed, the tendency to modify models to adapt for new risk factors without prospective revalidation in an independent dataset is a problem and can lead to erroneous risk prediction.

As individuals struggling to attain full self-expression, there is a tendency to imitate and adapt to the socially accepted values of success, fame and sexual fulfillment.