Word: reflexively
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...conducting a study in 'reflex motivation,'" he said, and crossing his legs assumed his best professional look. "You know that people all over the country have gone Ivy--Oxford grey, back straps, and button-downs and so forth--and we want to find out what the Ivy League is going to do about...
...were probably wearing black work-shirts and dark navy sweaters. His interest was reawakened:--"Where do they get them? Some small specialty shop, I suppose. Quite often, a small store will come out with something which catches the buyer's eye; we mass-produce it, and every-one buys. Reflex motivation, you know...
...materialist] system," he said, "confronts disjointed man, driven about as he is by a compulsion to flee and hide from God ... in the guise of exact science ... In the name of science God is explained as a mere reflex of a primitive state of fear . . . Thus the system promises man deliverance from God and, simultaneously, deliverance from the anxiety deep down in himself. Suppose the flaming cherub were not really posted before the closed gate of Paradise at all? Suppose the gate were unlocked and all you need do is to enter, in mighty concert with progressive humanity . . .? Would...
What is pain? Everybody knows because everybody has suffered it, but nobody can tell anybody else. Dictionaries are hopeless.* The late Sir Charles Sherrington, who collected no fewer than 22 honorary doctorates for his brilliant researches in physiology, called pain "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." That may be fine for another physiologist, but it is no help to a man with a nail through his foot. Although pain is what drives most patients to a doctor, it is the symptom to which, all too often, doctors pay least attention. One good reason: it is the subject about...
...University of Oregon's Dr. Frederick P. Haugen reports that dogs raised from puppyhood in a solitary, restricted environment, so that they cannot hurt themselves or be hurt, do not act as though they feel pain when tested in early maturity. Even Sherrington's "imperative protective reflex" is missing-these animals have to learn to stay away from a hot stove, and it takes repeated burns to teach them. Dr. Haugen comments: "The influence of past experience and learning is evident in any group of patients as one observes the notable differences in their reactions to stress...