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Psychologists call that tendency "confirmation bias."
And social media platforms supercharge that tendency, by allowing us to instantly and widely share information that accords with our viewpoints.
Our tendency to see ourselves as less biased than other people.
I think our tendency is to hope things will turn out the way we want them to much of the time, but we don't do the things that are necessary to make those things become reality.
But 1 or 2 k-levels is by no means a hard and fast rule— simply being conscious of this tendency can make people adjust their expectations.
And then we have this tendency, the career counselors and various people say things like, "Artists are not analytical.
If we say just small-scale production, as is the tendency here, to go back to local food means that a poor man like Hans Rosling cannot even eat oranges anymore because in Scandinavia we don't have oranges.
Big corporations have an in-built tendency to reinforce past success.
Fiona had a tendency not to use this hand very often, and she would cross the fingers on that hand.
The first cultural value shift we see is this tendency toward something we call "liquid life."
And our tendency is to judge these reactions and sort them into a hierarchy: better or worse, and then seek or avoid them.
But complacency does have a tendency to breed contempt.
The little one had a tendency to try to run off the track and that's a problem.
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.
So there seems to be a strange disproportionality at work, I think, in many areas of human problem solving, particularly those which involve human psychology, which is: The tendency of the organization or the institution is to deploy as much force as possible, as much compulsion as possible, whereas actually, the tendency of the person is to be almost influenced in absolute reverse proportion to the amount of force being applied.
That is, you decrease the amount of dopamine, and their tendency to see patterns like that decreases.
That is the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, intention and agency, often invisible beings from the top down.
But I must quickly add that this tendency to see a story as more than a story does not solely come from the West.
But it's a nice tendency.
And at a time of greater complexity, unprecedented technological, political and economic change, we are seeing how people's tendency is more and more to lock down into rigid responses to their emotions.
If you look at the iPhone with its touch and the Wii with its bodily activity, you can see the tendency; it's getting physical.
The research that my laboratory has been doing, that economists and psychologists around the country have been doing, has revealed something really quite startling to us, something we call the "impact bias," which is the tendency for the simulator to work badly, for the simulator to make you believe that different outcomes are more different than, in fact, they really are.
We have this tendency to think that only solid, material things are really things at all.
Quite possibly this was some latent voyeuristic tendency in me that wanted to see our hero get it on with his victim, or maybe fascination that they got funding to make, distribute, and show this film that kept me searching it for merit, or possibly some bizarre wish-fulfillment fantasy that there might be a point at the end of all the pain.
Directors of "The Messengers" Danny Pang and Oxide Pang are responsible for "The Eye" and its sequel and their premiere American picture plays like "The Grudge"-lite set in a farmhouse.A family of four move from Chicago to a run-down sunflower farm in rural North Dakota.Almost immediately their teenage daughter Jess starts seeing ghosts.Of course her parents and the police are skeptical.Admittedly the film is well-made and there are two or three effective scares,but relies too much on 'boo' effect.Still the plot is a carbon copy of many ghost stories and the ending is anti-climatic and stupefyingly awful.Scares are on the low side too with a tendency toward CGI.Overall,"The Messengers" is a pretty weak horror film that simply doesn't deliver.4
I would have to direct people (who have read this far) toward Branagh's version, if it weren't that I despise his tendency toward over-dramatization.
if this is your type of humor, i'd say you haven't really had much of a life... consider your appreciation of this film a symptom... and PLEASE don't EVER write another review...i have a tendency to believe them when they're unanimous.
There seems to be a strange tendency for Americans to classify their films as 'comedy' when they are funny peculiar rather than funny ha ha.
concentrated well on it but the result was disappointing.because the object of sex used too much on the film unnecessarily and it seemed to me that the director ignore ones who has tendency upon opposite sex.in my opinion the well prepared script couldn't be embodied.as
I know, it came out in the 80's following a tendency started by "Friday the 13th".
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