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Researchers presented black and white subjects with images of two black and two white males. During the presentation of one of the black faces and one of the white faces, subjects were administered a mild shock. The shock was designed to condition the subject to fear the two faces. Fear responses were measured through increases in the activity of sweat glands, which offered researchers a window into subject’s emotional state...
Subjects were then presented all four faces a second time, without the administering of any shock. This time researchers found that the fear response—activation of the sweat glands—to “the face from the participant’s own race diminished, while the response to the face from the other race persisted,” Ebert said...
...cute 'n' sexy pop singer decides to become a movie actress, then realizes she is being stalked by a fan who loves her a leetle too much. An adult thriller inspired by the giallo suspensers of Italian director Dario Argento, Perfect Blue deftly translates the live-action shock style into lurid-luscious anime visuals while mulling the notion that celebrity is a stroke of good luck punishable by death. Have creepy fun with Perfect Blue; then move on to Kon's Millennium Actress, another, gentler mix of suspense and movie lore. It's an anime tribute to live-action Japanese...
...this realization was a direct result of living away from home. The biggest shock of living on the East Coast actually had nothing to do with the East Coast, it was the questions that I had to field about California. “What are the beaches like? What do you do in San Francisco? How many surfers do you know...
...Week magazine in India, "who has achieved more than a boy could." Kalpana decided she wanted to be a space engineer by the time she was 14 and was the only woman to study aeronautics at Punjab Engineering College. Still, the idea of going to America was a shock to the members of her traditional family, and they agreed only on the grounds that her brother Sanjay would come with her to settle her in. She became an astronaut in 1994 and flew her first shuttle mission in 1997. She couldn't get over the marvel of it. "You just...