theorised

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These focused purely on studying behaviour and refrained from theorising about the inner workings of the mind.

Dr Robert Snelgrove from Imperial College London, among others, has theorised the notion of the so-called 'cytokine storm'.

He theorised that if the highest-frequency waves were stripped away, it might be possible to control the remainder.

In 1996, American psychologist Frank Sulloway theorised that these differences may be due to Darwin's theory of competition and survival.

They theorised that adding human-like eyes and facial expressions to robots conveys emotion where viewers do not expect emotion to be present.

They also theorised that if curiosity, rather than empathy, was the driving force, then the humming would cause dogs to engage with people.

They theorised that, in the absence of worms, the inflamed epithelial tissues in normal mice might instead identify the egg-white protein as an intruder.

The researchers theorised that eDNA might end up stuck to leaves and that it could subsequently be collected by swabbing them.

Much of this centred on Bohr's refusal to believe that photons, which Einstein had first theorised the existence of in 1905, were real.

In 1927, Adler theorised that birth order affected personality hugely because parents treated children differently according to whether they were the eldest or the youngest.