It not only looks at Gladstone's life as a kind of exercise in stress management, but also views his considerable political achievements (and shortcomings) as byproducts of psychological predispositions.

Whether this represents a psychological predisposition or an early form of the illness is not clear.

Genes have an impact on cultural evolution via psychological predispositions on cultural learning.

Dieting is a common entry point and interest has focused on the contribution of environmental and social factors, psychological predisposition, low self-esteem, family dysfunction, abuse, biological factors, and genetics.

Attitudinal justifications and criticisms are not to be seen as epiphenomena, tacked onto some more basic psychological predisposition, but are integral to attitudes qua attitudes.

Through processes of bounded rationality, people are conditioned towards strong in-group identities and are easily swayed to fear outsiders, psychological predispositions that make possible sectarian violence, genocide, and terrorism.

They have ranged from humoral imbalances to religious possession to sluggish circulation of blood in the brain to psychological predisposition resulting from adverse childhood experience to abnormalities in chemical neurotransmitter function.

Criminologist James N. Gilbert writes: "Brown's deeds conform to contemporary definitions of terrorism, and his psychological predispositions are consistent with the terrorist model."

Addiction vulnerability is to the genetic, physiological, or psychological predisposition to engage in addictive behaviors.

Individual brain chemistry and psychological predisposition play a significant role in determining appropriate doses.