Do you think prejudice and discrimination are innate or learned?
Was this discrimination the result of some universal, innate tendency or were preschoolers subtly learning about discrimination?
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In a functioning market, Hayek insisted, financial compensation depends not on someone's innate gifts or moral character.
Women are highly criticized when they exhibit what is typically considered their innate female traits or acquired male behavior.
What struck me as a little odd, though, is the semi-shocked and incredulous tone that pervades the article, the sort of tone that would accompany, say, a story about a clutch playoff performance by Tony Romo, a world series victory by the Baltimore Orioles, or Marc Zuckerberg and his innate likability and social grace.
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Yet despite what seems to be an innate preference for more or less literal representation of the visible world, the abstract idea remains to this day both seductive and perennially relevant.
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Companies use their innate ability to turn on or off journalists' access to privileged information to do this.
But it is still debated whether humans are born with an innate ability to process speech or whether this is something acquired through learning after birth.
While it might sound like this poor mom has what it takes to be the next Andrea Yates, it's important to understand that she's really just adjusting to the "fight or flight" stress hormones that for any new mom or mom-to-be are innate and incredibly powerful, Brizendine said.
Or has it moved beyond Reagan's innate optimism and into a party that wants to build fences and demand ideological purity?
He continues, such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent is not innate.
Headlights or room lights could be spectrally tuned to match the innate differences in day, night and peripheral vision, providing more comfort and safety.
South Asians, perhaps due to the unique environmental factors of the region, seem to have an innate predisposition to what we might call the jugaad, or frugal innovation, mentality.
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But humans wearing cameras would have an advantage over surveillance cameras: the innate ability to turn their heads to look at something important or interesting.
To be sure, there are some factors that are innate: Men from any culture may be attracted to wide hips or an hour-glass figure, since these could indicate good childbearing potential.
The hope is to flag borderline cases or high-risk patients not spotted by existing tests--like a lean, 40-year-old nonsmoker with an innate vulnerability to heart attack--and target these patients for drugs or lifestyle changes.
Outside of years of practice, is there an innate ability in some of us to just pick up a smartphone, laptop, tablet or home theater remote and know how to drive because we know what kind of processors and operating systems are between us and what needs to be done?
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