Word: straightforwardly
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...that makes us go "Blechh." Sam Bowles, professor of human behavior at the Santa Fe Institute, describes research in which an unfair business deal produced a response in the same region. How did disgust get involved in the belief-and-disbelief business? Some think it started as a fairly straightforward adaptation to enable a suspicious taste, smell or appearance--like that of vermin--to trigger the impulse to eliminate the source. We may have then generalized that reaction to ideas. "When someone says something you disbelieve," Harris says, "it has a kind of emotional tone. Rejecting someone's statement...
...suffer more heart attacks than women, women are far more likely to suffer from anxiety, just as they're more likely to suffer from depression. Gender aside, there's no reason to believe that the link between anxiety and heart attacks is straightforward. "We're not saying depression's not important. We're not saying anger's not important," Shen says. "Different factors can be essentially different for different groups." Still, psychological problems are often related, which means that different problems can affect the body...
...that LGBT rights, such as the fight for equal marriage rights or the effort to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), deserve strong, unified support from the organization that can’t afford to be tempered. Smith makes a good point. To put her diplomatic language into straightforward terms, the BGLTSA just can’t agree. There are so many varied and sensitive opinions that, inevitably, someone is offended and someone else opposed. Unsurprisingly, this sort of disagreement among its members is a real impediment to any political activism.The BGLTSA’s current Co-Chair, Emily...
...Republican caucuses are straightforward: the candidate who receives the majority vote in each precinct wins all of that precinct's delegates...
...contrast to its trendy counterpart, Dicenso said Pinocchio’s prides itself on its straightforward menu of Italian selections...