When they try, we tend not to take any notice.

we tend to forget that Britney is human like the rest of us.

There are exceptions, but we lean towards being a nation of bullies.

Too often, we yield to the temptation to offer weak formulas that are never implemented.

And one of the things we tend to do as adults, again, is we edit things.

Second, with transparency we tend to see more of humans at their worst.

We tend to be less demanding of China than of Russia, because we tend to see Russia as European (at least culturally).

But we tend to retain into adulthood the same views of God that we formed in childhood.

Why do we tend to underinvest in the resilience of our economies key systems?

We have a tendency to underestimate both the probabilities and consequences of what in the investment world are called left tailed events.

We tend to infer the normal function of something by what doesn't happen when we take it away, by the opposite of what we see when we take it away.

We tend to form clusters based on similarity, and then we produce stereotypes about other clusters of people.

Not trusting that officials will be candid about alarming information, we rely more on rumors.

His master said to him, We won't turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel but we will pass over to Gibeah.

And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel we will pass over to Gibeah.

We tend not to be bothered by people who are either vastly more successful or vastly less successful.

When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent and the servant said to his master, Please come and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.

And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.

Failed States or States under stress, as we tend to call them today are ideal safe havens for terrorist networks.

This is an exercise we in South Africa are not accustomed to undertaking, for as a people we tend to sell ourselves short.

In our market driven times, we tend to think about the price of everything and the value of nothing, as Oscar Wilde put it.

We tend to do any technology that we think is sufficiently important we'll typically do it twice. Once, we want to do it first.

And there's another cognitive bias I'll call confirmation bias, where we tend to accept data that confirms our beliefs and reject data that contradicts our beliefs.

And because of that fear, we tend to do one of two things We go into denial It's not me, it has nothing to do with me, it's never going to happen to me.

Unfortunately, when it comes to policies marketed as reining in global warming, protecting the environment, or creating green jobs, we have a tendency to make hasty decisions that don t pass the test.

Economists usually compute urban land value by subtracting the estimated construction cost of the home from the home price, so that land value is inferred as a residual.

If traffic is stalled for hours and no one else is making progress, we tend to relax and accept the situation resignedly.

Let me pass through your land we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard we will not drink of the water of the wells we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border.

Let me pass through thy land we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards we will not drink of the waters of the well but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.

All of this may seem obvious, but we tend not to think of oil prices as being determined by expectations of future prices.

The most fundamental problem is that, in examining stock market investments, we are selecting an economic activity because it was a consistent success in the past.

Mr. Dimanche Lissou said that, as human beings, we are inclined to generalize, characterize and categorize in order to help us to understand the world and our place in it.

We tend to think of diplomacy as something carried out in secret sometimes, however, it is better to hide in plain sight.

True, we tend to align ourselves these days more with Venus than Mars, something for which the rest of the world should be deeply grateful.

So we said, let's actually give the monkeys the same kinds of problems that humans tend to get wrong in certain kinds of economic challenges, or certain kinds of economic experiments.

One side note here is that I believe we tend too often, when considering the situation in Darfur and in the Sudan, to look at those problems separately.

All of us tend to make the same mistake repeatedly we think at the beginning of a revolution that freedom and justice have prevailed over dictatorship and cruelty.

Please let us pass through your land we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells we will go along the king's highway we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.

Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells we will go by the king's highway, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.

That leads to a second and more plausible explanation, which is psychological and behavioral in character. We have a tendency to underestimate both the probabilities and consequences of what in the investment world are called left tailed events.

As humans, we are highly evolved to adjust to our surroundings we tend to adapt to a culture, well conceived or not, and lose sight of its failings.

WASHINGTON, DC Because information technology (IT) has so quickly transformed people s daily lives, we tend to forget how much things have changed from the not so distant past.

And we tend to fall in love with somebody from the same socioeconomic background, the same general level of intelligence, the same general level of good looks, the same religious values.

Similarly, when we expect redistributive effects to even out in the long run, so that everyone eventually comes out ahead, we are more likely to overlook reshufflings of income.

Perhaps people respond more generously to the victims of natural disasters than they do to those in extreme poverty because, after a natural disaster, we tend not to blame the victims.