But some individuals are more likely to be bored than others.

It leaves little room for interdependence or an acknowledgment of individual fallibility.

Many intellectuals disdain popular culture because of its crude commercialism.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

But the varying talents, foibles, and psychological predilections of men and women make this impossible.

Many countries have benefited from the entrepreneurialism of their Chinese or Jewish minorities.

Overcoming historic biases requires questioning an industry s taboos.

Some try to deal with basic human proclivities, and to modify behavior to make people better.

Some evidence suggests that there is a link between the level of dopamine, addiction, and greedy behavior.

Well that system is, I think, probably the system that kept us alive to this point, given our human tendencies.

Are there genes for alcoholism? Or genes that make you gay, religious, prone to divorce, or even genes that determine how you vote?

Or genes that make you gay, religious, prone to divorce, or even genes that determine how you vote?

Most southern European nations today display public finances that are Lutheran in their prudence.

To help measure this, researchers developed a Boredom Proneness Scale in the 1980s.

Jordan was close to his father as a child he had imitated his father's proclivity to stick out his tongue while absorbed in work.

Most economic relationships depend on good will, a basic inclination to do the right thing even if no one is checking.

Specifically, we must steel ourselves against our tendency to evade and shift responsibility.

Politico all over this story reported in May on advisers' penchants for strategically feeding dubious information to the president.

Fortunately, the Chilean public shows no inclination to follow the mistakes of several other South American countries, especially Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, and Argentina.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

Parents can then make contributions to their child s trust fund which can grow tax free, and can choose how to allocate the Fund among investments. The purpose of the gifts is to encourage parents and children to develop the saving habit and engage with financial institutions.

The purpose of the gifts is to encourage parents and children to develop the saving habit and engage with financial institutions.

After all, a psychological telling of the story of our moral development provides no basis for encouraging us to dampen one natural inclination and nurture another.

That we hear otherwise is an indication of the media s addiction to worst case stories, but that makes a poor foundation for smart policies.

Indian officials bemoan the fact that overseas Indians lack both the wealth and the propensity to invest back home.

Hence, the threat of a nuclear Iran might consist less in its propensity to start a nuclear war with Israel than in its capacity to project its regional power effectively.

In a recent study, Mariassunta Giannetti and Andrei Simonov of the Stockholm School of Economics show the magnitude of differences in levels of entrepreneurship across Swedish municipalities.

While there may be a biological component to men s propensity for risk taking (especially among young men), gender norms reinforce risky or unhealthy behaviors by associating them with masculinity.

Intelligence tests measure mental skills that have been studied for a long time, whereas psychologists have only recently had the tools to measure the tendencies toward rational and irrational thinking.

Yet, despite the fact that the United States accounts for roughly 25 of all man made global carbon emissions, Americans show little will or inclination to temper their manic consumption.

What Octavio Paz once called Mexico's labyrinth of solitude toward the world beyond its borders was built on a sense of inferiority and a propensity for passivity.

Chinese consumers do not have a greater propensity to save than Chinese in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan they all save about 30 of disposable income.

Syria s people may have no predilection for violence, but the birth of freedom, once witnessed, is not easily forgotten or trumped by state handouts and vacuous statements by a distant, self isolated leadership.

Often the choice depends less on a rational assessment of similarities and differences than on gut feelings, proclivities to optimism or pessimism, or political orientation.

But he said he did know that adolescence is a peak period for boredom, largely because children and teenagers are not given a lot of control over what they want to do.

But it retains the vocation and characteristics of a major power a rich culture and history, vast size, formidable nuclear capabilities, strong influence across Eurasia, and the capacity to be a spoiler in many conflicts.

Anecdotes about Francis from his propensity for making personal phone calls to those in distress to his decision to wash the feet of criminals, Muslims, and women (to the horror of some churchmen) ring true.