Word: affective
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...Just get the government out, it shouldn’t be involved,” Bolduc says. “At the end of the day, if it doesn’t adversely affect anyone, it’s your choice...
Students in the death-and-dying group, it turns out, had all gone to their happy place - at least in their unconscious. There was no difference in scores between the groups on the explicit tests of emotion and affect. But in the implicit tests of nonconscious emotion - the wordplay - researchers found that the students who were preoccupied with death tended to generate significantly more positive-emotion words and word matches than the dental-pain group. DeWall thinks this mental coping response kicks in immediately when confronted with a serious psychological threat. In subsequent research, he has analyzed the content...
...announcements came in response to a growing consensus that autism can be picked up very early in life and that early intervention holds the best promise for helping affected children. It is also an admission that, despite an explosion of news on autism in recent years, pediatricians are not currently doing an optimal job of identifying the spectrum of conditions now believed to affect as many as 1 in 150 children. A 2004 survey of primary care pediatricians found, for instance, that only 8% were routinely screening for autism, even though 44% said they saw at least 10 kids with...
...them as they physically died. The other half of the group was asked to think and write about dental pain - decidedly unpleasant, but not quite as threatening. The researchers then set about evaluating the volunteers' emotions: First, the students were given standard psychological questionnaires designed to measure explicit affect and mood. Then they were given assessments of nonconscious mood: in word tests, volunteers were asked to complete fragments such as jo_ or ang_ _ with letters of their choice. Some word stems were intended to prompt either neutral or emotionally positive responses, such as jog or joy; others could be filled...
...worked with and developed admiration for most of the Democrats currently in the race. But she argues that Edwards is the best candidate on "women's issues"--which she defines as including not just abortion but also poverty, low wages and access to health care, all of which affect women more acutely than men. "I know what it's like to be a woman who is marginalized," she says, citing her time as a single mother on welfare...