What is "expectancies"

Usage examples of "expectancies".

Yet without a rich set of socially appropriate durational expectancies, no individual could function successfully.

It is these durational expectancies, different in each society but learned early and deeply ingrained, that are shaken up when the pace of life is altered.

Unless an individual has adjusted his durational expectancies to take account of continuing acceleration, he is likely to suppose that two situations, similar in other respects, will also be similar in duration.

Anticipating that situations will endure less long, he is less frequently caught off guard and jolted than the person whose durational expectancies are frozen, the person who does not routinely anticipate a frequent shortening in the duration of situations.

Armed with a culturally conditioned set of durational expectancies, we have all learned to invest with emotional content those relationships that appear to us to be "permanent" or relatively long-lasting, while withholding emotion, as much as possible, from short-term relationships.

Roughly in order of descending durational expectancies, these are relationships with friends, neighbors, job associates, and co-members of churches, clubs and other voluntary organizations.

Transience necessarily affects the durational expectancies with which persons approach new situations.

They got food to eat, clothes to wear, shoes on their feet, their life expectancies were better in the Cantard than at home, and they even got paid.

One that could have overcome the seemingly insurmountable problem of sending individuals, even with their biologically extended life expectancies, on journeys lasting hundreds or thousands of years.

Snipers were the reason that infantry platoon leaders had one of the shortest life expectancies of any position in combat.