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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One may be inclined to think that there is nothing important left to be said.

Why do we have that belief?

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.

Four differences lead me to believe that maybe just maybe the euro will survive.

In fact, the name by which Zapotecs are known today results from this belief.

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

Michael Shermer on strange beliefs

Doubt, like belief, requires justification.

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.

The Prescript suggested elements of white supremacist belief.

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.

My inclination is to believe that the head will prevail but not completely.

Suspicious cases where there is cause to believe they should be frozen are currently under investigation.

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.

Of course, America has been encouraging Sunni leaders in this belief.

But there are good reasons to believe that we are experiencing a more persistent slump.

Nonetheless, there is no reason to believe that Obama was being disingenuous about his objectives.

Many of the reactions to my book tend to confirm that belief.

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.

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.

For example Bertrand Russell notes the paradox in his Analysis of Matter (1927) we appeal to ordinary perception to arrive at our physical theories, yet those same theories seem to undermine that everyday perception, which is rich in meaning.

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.

They see little reason to believe that current asset values and trade flows are not sustainable.

We should not allow the relative stability in our world to lure us into the belief that the need for total disarmament no longer exists.

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.