Forest Whitaker

As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

American Actor

Vikram Patel

In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition which is profoundly influenced by our social and cultural environments. Depression is a global crisis not only because it is common and universal, but because the vast majority of affected people suffer in silence or receive inappropriate care.

Indian Scientist

Albert Claude

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.

Belgian Scientist

Richard Owen

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

English Scientist

Oliver Joseph Lodge

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

English Physicist

Asa Gray

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.

American Scientist

Eric Whitacre

I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.

American Composer

Wilhelm Wundt

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

German Psychologist

Leo Buscaglia

Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.

American Author

Sonia Sotomayor

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

American Judge

Often used in scientific contexts to describe body functions in a formal, academic tone.

Academic Tone

Used to explain the biological aspects of how living things work, not their psychology or personality.

Biological Context

It's a technical term so use it in contexts where technical precision about living organisms is needed.

Technical Term

Focuses on functions as they relate to health and wellness of a person, not plants or animals.

Health Focus

Often linked to daily habits and how they affect a person's physical health.

Personal Well-being

Refers to normal, healthy functioning, as opposed to diseases or medical conditions.

Not Pathological

 Anatomical structures, or physiological mechanisms, with no apparent purpose present challenges to evolutionary biologists. Do such structures serve some hidden function that hasn't yet been discovered? Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose

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 and wearables that monitor physiological signs, the big question is not how to collect enough data, but what we're going to do with it. There are plenty of beneficial uses for computerized emotion recognition. Robots using algorithms to identify facial expressions can help children learn

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 our bodies are on hyperalert. This response has evolved from the physiological mechanism designed to make sure we can survive in a crisis. Stress chemicals help mobilize energy and increase alertness. However, with chronic stress our bodies become flooded with these chemicals,

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 is more than noticing perfume or cologne. It's able to pick up on natural chemical signals known as pheromones. These not only convey important physical or genetic information about their source but are able to activate a physiological or behavioral response in the recipient.

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 Similar to a domino effect, one person's yawn triggers a yawn in a person nearby that has observed the act. Once this reflex is triggered, it must run its course. Have you ever tried to stop a yawn once it has begun? Basically impossible! Another physiological hypothesis

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 conceal the truth from a mysterious interrogator but can you beat a lie detector in real life lying is a stressful business the natural physiological reactions to telling a big fat whopper is that your pulse quickens you breathe faster and you start to

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 and a poorer quality of life. Basic levels of physiological function should be a part of our human rights. Every person should have the right to live life without disability if they so choose -- the right to live life without severe depression;

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 that our relationship with sound has become largely unconscious. There are four major ways sound is affecting you all the time, and I'd like to raise them in your consciousness today. The first is physiological. Sorry about that.

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 maintain the organs of the body and that opens the possibility to people being able to directly control their physiological functions for example regulating your own bill you're on blood pressure now this is research it's not

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 monogamous love no I would say no now if you mean the core of love which to me is about protection and is about the physiological machinery of love I don't see why we wouldn't call that love

Physiological