Word: affective
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...assign values to those scents, recognizing that, say, putrefying flesh can carry disease and thus recoiling from its smell and that warm cookies carry the promise of vanilla, sugar and butter and thus being drawn to them. Other humans carry telltale smells of their own, and those can affect us in equally powerful ways...
According to Harley, complex zoning laws have in part caused middle and lower-class Egyptians to construct many “illegal” residences squeezed next to each other on arable land. The problems associated with sprawl affect all Cairenes, since these “suburbs” occupy land that could be used to feed Egypt’s swelling population. Cairo is Africa’s largest city...
...that the Core is a victim of changing times. The draft asserted that today’s Harvard students “will need to make their way in an environment complex in new and incompletely understood ways,” and “will lead lives that affect the lives of others,” as if such were not the case in 1978, when students apparently graduated into an uncomplicated and secluded world...
...PetroChina or Google and Yahoo!’s cooperation with the Chinese government’s investigation of political dissidents.But seniors, officials at the Office of Career Services (OCS), and recruiters contacted by The Crimson say that the recent publicity surrounding such firms hasn’t affected Harvard students’ willingness to work there.“Student outrage is important but selective and trendy,” says Sanford Kreisberg, an independent consultant who runs the widely-read business school admissions blog HBSGURU.com. “[Paychecks and name brands] are externalities that don?...
...straightforward. "We're not saying depression's not important. We're not saying anger's not important," Shen says. "Different factors can be essentially different for different groups." Still, psychological problems are often related, which means that different problems can affect the body in the same ways. The bottom line is that more study will be needed before we know how much sway our brains have over our heart function - and how much we can control what happens in the mind to prevent a heart attack...