Sentences with phrase «less emotional response»

Given Barr's own observation elsewhere in the volume under review that «the theology of the Old Testament is not the same as the theology of the New,» one would have anticipated a more sympathetic and less emotional response to my posing the problem and suggesting a way forward.

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I haven't met an employee, except very highly compensated ones (and then only rarely), who did not have an deeply emotional response to the possibility of ratcheting downward in any given year (i.e., making less money).

This acknowledges that the child's response to the emotional trauma of her history is less a «disorder» and more an imperfect, self - isolating, and inefficient strategy.

In Damasio's view, such instinctual emotional responses result in behavior that seems more rational, not less so.

Relative to ordinary participants, the steely performers also showed less blood flow in a part of the brain that helps govern emotional responses, the anterior cingulate cortex.

They found that the depressed women had less activity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex — an area of the brain thought to pick up on emotional cues and mediate emotional responses — than the non-depressed women (The American Journal of Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1176 / appi.ajp.2010.09081235).

Because it is less invasive than other methods, it is especially useful when studying the emotional responses of young people for whom emotional well - being is critical to healthy development.

In a second study, Costa and colleagues directly compared responses on the footbridge (personal and thus emotional) and flip - switch (impersonal and, therefore, less emotional) dilemmas.

«Men with the gene variant that is linked to aggression may be less able to inhibit their emotional responses»

Knowing whether someone is less likely to be able to control their emotional responses could, however, have enormous potential for tailoring drug or behavioural treatments for people who suffer trauma at an early age, says Essi Viding of University College London, a psychologist who studies psychopathic violence.

Thus while both sexes may have heightened emotional responses, men with MAOA - L «are less able to inhibit their responses», says Meyer - Lindenberg.

Also, a depressed person is less likely to show severe mood swings, whereas someone with dementia shows a wider range of emotions and sometimes makes inappropriate emotional responses (e.g., laughing while others are sad).

Heat shock proteins (HSP) initiate an inflammatory response during times of acute emotional or physical stress, and those who are less physically fit are not as capable of producing HSPs.

Features: - key questions and learning outcomes - Starter place knowledge activity - differentiated activity on the causes of the earthquake - Worksheet on the effects and response to the earthquake - Plenary activities considering how Pakistan's less developed status may have impacted proceedings and also the emotional impact of the quake on people.

If you are looking to enroll your dog into a training class to «socialize» him to be less fearful, less anxious, or friendlier to other dogs or people, please be aware that he has a nearly or fully developed personality and at this point we need to take on an approach of intervention, teaching better behaviors, and perhaps modifying behaviors and emotional responses.

Music has a well - established cultural language; sound is much less clearly delineated — but you can get straight to someone's emotional responses with it — there's little time for the brain to analyse.

The landscapes — often bare, desolate, and even forbidding — are less about representing real views as about reflecting her emotional response to the experience of the encounter.

I am less concerned with crafting something for the sake of beauty - but to create a visual emotional connection and response of familiarity from within.

First he describes research by Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff and others that has shown how emotional responses to the world, — «fear factors,» as Ropeik calls them — make risks feel more or less frightening than science and statistics say would be rational.

We believe that great design should enhance the value of each place, make optimal utility of space, elicit an emotional response, and use less energy.

Other, less common emotional responses include:

Most of us were raised by human parents, with their human failings and they raised us with less than perfect emotional responses.

It improves 1) our emotional state; 2) our resilience and our acceptance of ourselves; 3) how we interpret situations or events, so that we see them as more manageable; 4) our motivation to overcome adversity and strive toward our goals; 5) the adaptiveness of our responses to specific situations, such as our coping strategies and our ability to learn from experience; 6) our relationships themselves in terms of closeness, trust, and feeling loved; 7) our physiological functioning, such as improved immune response; and 8) behaviors that comprise a healthier lifestyle, like better eating habits and self - care and less substance abuse.

And, your response, given in less than ten seconds and void of emotional charge, is «We just went our separate ways.»

The neurobiological mechanism underlying emotion regulation deficits (simply put: a more active emotional response system and less effective regulation of the emotional response) is both (1) the normative developmental imbalance during adolescence (reviewed above), and (2) a parallel process that underlies and further exacerbates risk for addiction and comorbid psychopathology more generally.

Further, substance abusers are more likely to have greater sensitization and dysfunctional limbic system responses to negative affect and also exhibit greater connectivity between the limbic and PFC regions during emotional processing, but lower levels of connectivity during cognitive reappraisal and regulation tasks, indicative of poorer regulation of negative emotional experiences and less effective cognitive control [70].

Further, maltreated girls expected less emotional support and more relational conflict from parents in response to sadness displays and from parents and peers in response to anger displays.

Less research has examined how the early processing of emotion - relevant stimuli may create divergent emotional response consequences.

But one super helpful thing we learned from our post-adoption counselor this week is that a child who is in an environment that feels predictable is far less likely to have negative physiological and emotional responses.