Impulsivity

Impulsivity and insensitivity are NOT conducive to family values or governing.

Think Progress » Glenn Beck welcomes Scott Brown to Washington: ‘This one could end with a dead intern.’ 2010

Impulsivity and insensitivity are NOT conducive to family values or governing.

Think Progress » Glenn Beck welcomes Scott Brown to Washington: ‘This one could end with a dead intern.’ 2010

Criterion 4: Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially harmful to self

Master Skywalker | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

And since youthful wagering often precedes compulsive gambling — which leads to poor health, criminality, and substance abuse — it could “easily unravel into a public health issue.” — “Predicting Gambling Behavior in Sixth Grade From Kindergarten Impulsivity,” Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

Quick Study 2009

And since youthful wagering often precedes compulsive gambling — which leads to poor health, criminality, and substance abuse — it could “easily unravel into a public health issue.” — “Predicting Gambling Behavior in Sixth Grade From Kindergarten Impulsivity,” Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

Quick Study 2009

Impulsivity was strongly linked to BMI, too: The subjects in the top 10% of impulsivity weighed, on average, 24 pounds more than those in the lowest 10%.

Is Your Personality Making You Put on Pounds? Melinda Beck 2012

Impulsivity has been tied to an array of health problems, including addictions and other risky behavior.

Wray Herbert: New Meditation Research: Putting the 'Om' in 'Chromosome' Wray Herbert 2010

The symptoms include: Failure to conform to social norms; Deceitfulness, Impulsivity; Irritabilityor aggressiveness; Reckless disregard for safety of others and self; Constant irresponsibility and Lack of Remorse as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated or stolen from another~as witnessedour illegal attack, ocupation and economic rape of Iraq which has resulted in the death and displacementof hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

George W Bush / Sociopath 2009

Impulsivity, an utter lack of reflectiveness and lack of basic knowledge combines with driving and unconsidered ambition to create a youthful, thoughtless grandiosity in reaction to the overwhelming whirl.

Polls: Ohio Again Tied; Palin Approval Plunges 2009

Impulsivity is one of those areas of human behavior where we are predictably irrational, to use a common term and book title.

Timothy A. Pychyl - Why are you so impulsive? William Harryman 2009