Some people were simply more drawn to certain topics than to others: you either loved physics or didn't much care for it, and, while a good teacher could perhaps pique your interest, she couldn't change your underlying disposition in the long run.
The subjective data in the present study were based upon self-report, and any significant association could reflect an underlying disposition of negative affectivity, which in turn could lead to an overestimation of the true association between different self-reported outcomes [37].
Catholic guides to examining one's conscience also contained warnings against morbid scrupulosity and lack of trust in divine forgiveness and, especially in recent decades, against focusing narrowly on specific acts rather than underlying dispositions.
Sincere avowal of desires also counts as evidence for underlying dispositions, though the connection is not as tight.
The lack of engagement may be, in reality, one of the consequences of the underlying dispositions about ownership and control of health research.
By rewording the ads to appeal to the respondents' underlying psychological disposition, the researchers were able to influence and change their opinions.
We also find, after controlling for the underlying ethical disposition of managers, that the different audit procedures and attitudes conveyed to management affect managers' perceptions of the ethicality of anticipated earnings management.
Consequently, at some point in the heating process the matter receives a new substantial form that is compatible with the matter's new underlying qualitative disposition, namely, the matter receives the form of air.
So, for example, when water, which again is associated with a cold-wet combination, is sufficiently heated, the underlying qualitative disposition is no longer suited to the substantial form of water.
At that moment, the divided substance's underlying qualitative disposition becomes altered so as no longer to be suitable to its elemental form, and the matter receives a new substantial form.
Jaspers borrowed from Nietzsche a psychologistic approach to philosophical perspectives, and, like Nietzsche, he tended to view philosophical claims, not as formally verifiable postulates, but as expressions of underlying mental dispositions.
