Word: conscious
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Yeah, I'm so self-conscious. I'm a human being. I got this gap in my teeth that was supposed to be fixed when I had my braces. There are certain pictures you can see it really well...
...staged with iPodded friends before the headphones become soldered to their ears, or worse, they purchase those oh so hip belt clip accessories. These are tough but doable if one capitalizes on the small windows of time just prior to bedtime and after awakening when the afflicted are conscious and the evil little white machines should be recharging...
...perceived when she enters the socially conservative world of politics. She is worried that people will dismiss her. “‘She went to Harvard, yeah, but she studied women,’” she says in a mock jeer. Menendez is so conscious of her effect on people that she even makes a gesture toward acknowledging that she tends to polarize them. “I know myself and I know the way people perceive me well enough to know the effect of the awkward juxtapositions.” She, however, is comfortable with...
...study, conducted at Yale University, suggests that racial bias can be found in the amygdala, a region of the brain involved in emotional response, before it is censored by the frontal cortex and the conscious brain...
...that suggests that prejudice is inevitable, or that because people have these automatic responses, they’re not responsible for those responses,” said Cunningham. “But this shows that although the responses exist, people do have the ability to control them. Perhaps our conscious attitudes can limit our personal responses...