The movement spun off several subgenres of a similar political bent.

Suboptimal investment decisions have, for example, been linked to overconfidence in knowledge judgments, the tendency to over explain chance events, and the tendency to substitute affective valence for thought.

Differences in health outcomes are exacerbated further by women s tendency to use health care services more than men. Some of this additional use is due to women s needs for family planning or prenatal services, seeking either to prevent or promote reproduction.

This historical leap is possible only for people whose political irresponsibility is matched by their proclivity for lazy analogy.

This redistributed global income toward countries with a higher propensity to save the oil exporting countries.

And it is biased toward universal recipes model institutional arrangements, best practices, rules of thumb, and so forth.

Rising inequality is redistributing income to those with a high propensity to save (the rich and corporations), and is exacerbated by capital intensive, labor saving technological innovation.

So, no surprise, the energy of Libyan youth ran head on into Qaddafi s inclination toward brutality and, more importantly, into his paid mercenaries.

But all of them make an economy less productive and redistribute wealth to small, coordinated groups with vested interests and a strong inclination to lobby the government.

After all, as the columnist David Brooks recently observed, If there is one soft power gift that America does possess, it is the tendency to imagine new worlds.

But even if homosexuality were a choice and not an immutable characteristic, it would still not be excusable to pass legislation of this sort which seeks to criminalise consensual sexual behaviour between adults.

Likewise, the deterioration of international relations before World Wars I and II was marked by governments increased propensity to use economics as a tool of power politics.

With its penchant for constant experimentation and improvement, one might even hope that China will draw lessons and apply them to all of its developing country lending.

The closest thing, in some ways, to the China Model is nineteenth century Germany, with its industrial strength, its cultivated but politically neutered middle class, and its tendency toward aggressive nationalism.

As international bureaucracies with a penchant for best practices and common standards, these institutions are woefully unsuited to the task of seeking innovative, unique pathways suited to each country s particular circumstances.

Another frequent cause of companies blind spots is historic bias, or what psychologists call an anchoring bias the assumption that something that was true in the past will continue to be true in the future.

The proposed bill attracted support from moderate Muslim leaders, but its most vocal advocates were a collection of radical religious groups with a predilection for violence, led by the Islamic Defenders Front (known by its Indonesian acronym, FPI). This year alone, these self appointed moral vigilantes have ransacked bars and nightclubs, attacked the American and Danish embassies, and stoned the offices of Playboy after its first edition all with only occasional protests from the police.

But all the talk of wondrous returns could spur what psychologists call wishful thinking bias, leading people to believe that their personal accounts will be so valuable in the future that outside saving is unnecessary.

The proposed bill attracted support from moderate Muslim leaders, but its most vocal advocates were a collection of radical religious groups with a predilection for violence, led by the Islamic Defenders Front (known by its Indonesian acronym, FPI).

But Scotney has witnessed 700 years of tumultuous history from its cosy seat in Bewl River valley in Kent, now inspiration for a graphic novel written by Jamie Rhodes, a mop haired Yorkshireman with a penchant for historical documents.