instinct's

Here we get a hint of the survivalist instinct's fundamental error.

The Fantasy of Survivalism Virginia Postrel 2011

He talked about summer, about an upcoming party: my mojo is off, my instinct's a little rusty, but I thought, perilously: I think he might be my next long term relationship.

blog: March 2009 2009

He talked about summer, about an upcoming party: my mojo is off, my instinct's a little rusty, but I thought, perilously: I think he might be my next long term relationship.

blog: Wistful thoughts on serial monogamy 2009

He also thought — and this is significant — that at the time of the instinct's

Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. SLUCKIN 1968

Instincts are the germs of habit, and when instinct would give rise to a reaction no longer useful, reason, abetted by new habit formation, in the normal mind, weakens instinct's force; and the habit is discarded and the instinct gradually declines.

Applied Psychology for Nurses Mary F. Porter

Imitation plays an important role in the development of the sex instinct, and love between the sexes as one of this instinct's derivatives, as it does with the development of most other instincts.

A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes Sanford Bell

If cleanliness is next to godliness, the average child is most ungodly by nature, for it loathes the means of cleanliness and otherwise observes instinct's health warnings only after experience has punished or after other motives from the outside have prompted action.

Civics and Health William H. Allen

But the evil is not corrected because it is not made anybody's business to execute instinct's mandates.

Civics and Health William H. Allen

No better example of this second mode of change of an instinct's functioning can be found than in the very existence of war itself.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

And the more important to the race the newer reference of the instinct's functioning turns out to be, the more certain is it to replace the original reference.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926