Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your nervous system. If you want to play the labelling game you can call some of these changes dangerous and others beneficial. You can label some artificial and others natural. Compare this to the written word. Can the written word be dangerous? Is the written word natural? Are nonverbal stimuli such as the sacred mushroom of Mexico artificial? Is the chemical essence of the mushroom dangerous...
...most effect on urban populations that have been predisposed to the actions of pollen by such stimuli as auto exhaust fumes, chimney smoke and smog...
...emulation existed among delinquents than among non-delinquents. In the new work it was discovered that the impact of this emotional deprivation, on which much of the building of character depends, is heavier among boys who are characterized by the traits of stub- Stubborness, uninhibited meter responses the stimuli, and acquisitiveness...
...Stimuli. The market's lackluster performance was all the more baffling in the light of last week's spate of encouraging economic news. Personal income in March, the Commerce Department reported, rose $2 billion above the February figure to a record annual rate of $435 billion. More important, the consumers were spending their fat paychecks: even allowing for the effects of a later Easter this year, department-store sales for the second week in April were up 6% over 1961. and auto sales were running a whopping 48% above last year. The only important indicator that...
...suppose a man trained to "respond instantly to stimuli, such as a command" (to bow and yell "Airborne" to a shout of "Hit it") is already partially dead...