Word: phenomenons
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...University of East London conference sponsored by the Hearing Voices Network (HVN), an organization that brings such people together to exchange personal stories and coping strategies. Drawing on research by Dutch psychiatrists indicating that up to one in 25 people hears voices, HVN seeks to recast the phenomenon as a normal experience, encouraging members to maintain a dialogue with their voices so they can live peacefully with and even appreciate their presence. Studies suggest that these auditory hallucinations emerge following traumas ranging from the death of a loved one to outright abuse, so HVN encourages members to address the phenomenon...
...Ledger’s death unexpectedly helps explain a seemingly unrelated phenomenon: the meteoric rise of Barack Obama’s popularity amongst my generation. Why is it that droves of young voters (and kids too young to vote) flock to Obama...
...unchosen alternatives evaporate," he says. According to Gilbert's earlier research, which he featured in his 2006 book, Stumbling on Happiness, when faced with an irrevocable decision, people are happier with the outcome than when they have the opportunity to change their minds. "It's a very powerful phenomenon," he says. "This is really the difference between dating and marriage...
Eating the chips slowly is an "experience that isn't engaging, so your mind is free to wander to all of the other things you could have been doing," Gilbert says. The same phenomenon occurs while driving, when you move into the right lane, only to have the traffic stall as the left lane speeds by. Suddenly, "it really hurts to be in the right lane," he says. "You're not driving, you're not engaged, you're not navigating. You're just sitting and your mind can wander and you can think about all the things you might have...
...commune living led to mere exhaustion," he says. "There simply was no energy left. People found it an isolating and cutoff way to live." Yankelovich too thinks the turn away from sexual adventuring is a byproduct of other change. It is, he says, "only one part of a larger phenomenon of society going through a sober, responsible phase...