Sentences with phrase «heightened vigilance»

If consumers have or predict a reason to distrust a source of product information (a «low trust cue»), boasting leads to heightened vigilance and perception of ulterior motives of the boastful source, making the consumer like the product even less than they would have otherwise.

Some of these «precursor outcomes» (e.g., heightened vigilance and preparedness for threats; enhanced inflammatory and humoral responses to infectious microorganisms) appear to be aimed at protection from immediate dangers; they may reflect «adaptive trade - offs» that balance short - term survival advantages under harsh rearing conditions against disadvantages manifested later in development.

Furthermore, it has been suggested that socially anxious individuals show heightened vigilance to threatening information when they are under a social stressor [27], [34] and that attentional biases are more evident when socially anxious individuals are in a feared social situation [25].

Literature suggests that perturbations in both «bottom up» attention mechanisms and «top down» executive control processes may play a central role in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety.22 These perturbations extend to both emotionally charged and affectively neutral stimuli, reflecting both preferential treatment of specific categories of stimuli (i.e., bias to threat cues) and heightened vigilance of one's own performance and behaviour (i.e., cognitive monitoring).

I don't doubt there is an overwhelming majority of SRLs who are SRLs only because they have little or no other choice, but the dangers presented by the few that seem to enjoy dragging out a dispute or treating litigation as a game are real and, in my view, warrant heightened vigilance by lawyers keen to avoid unnecessary costs and delays for their clients.

As the world we live in changes from a «deterrent state» to the heightened vigilance of today's «preventative state,» our construction, he argues, must also change.

These are the type of games you pause to catch a breath while you relax your heightened vigilance, so players beware.

This uncertainty, coupled with an insular distribution and genetic distinctness, warrants heightened vigilance for both populations of island spotted skunks.

If a cat is suffering from stress due to social conflict then play, deemed a leisure activity, will be avoided due to the need for heightened vigilance.

Numerous studies have shown that people who read on blue light - emitting devices took longer to fall asleep, reduced REM, and had heightened vigilance before going to sleep.

Nestlings farthest away experienced stunted growth as well (predators are more common at quieter sites, and heightened vigilance might reduce the birds» ability to feed their young).

He and a student, Joshua Halofsky, proceeded to measure elk behavior and found heightened vigilance in areas with escape impediments.

It highlights not only the importance of comprehensive evaluation and multidisciplinary management and counseling in such cases, but also the need for heightened vigilance in these patients.

Thus the heightened vigilance at Pinehurst.

The geopolitical situation today does not suggest immediate selling but it does suggest heightened vigilance.

Qantas is the first Australian company to respond to Beijing's heightened vigilance, though all firms exporting everything from iron ore to baby formula should be taking heed.

When those signals suggest that life is going to be hard, the network reacts by preparing for trouble: raising blood pressure, increasing the production of adrenaline, heightening vigilance.

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From the moment my baby was born, I entered a heightened state of vigilance.

We continue to see mild cases and full recovery in Canada, but our vigilance and efforts need to continue and our heightened surveillance will lead to more and more confirmed cases.

«They experience real and visceral reactions, like elevated heart rate and adrenaline — similar to what you would experience if you were in real combat, so they have that same heightened level of awareness and vigilance,» Chappelle told LiveScience.

With an understanding of trauma impacts, I might now recognize how that student has a heightened sense of vigilance around safety in her environment.

Some of the typical symptoms of shell shock, now referred to as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), are: hyper - vigilance, trouble sleeping, nightmares, irritability, irrational fears, heightened anxieties, flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, numbness, obsessiveness, emotional dysregulation, violence, suicide.

Serious cases can produce Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms, including: Haunting memories with accompanying emotional upheavals as if the traumatic event was being experienced again Overwhelming frustration in the form of feeling threatened, with a heightened sense of vigilance An urge to fight or run away from the traumatic memory Irrational thinking patterns and beliefs about yourself, others, and the world The traumatic event can be the experience of surviving a serious car accident,...