Auntie Mei picked up Baby, his weight as insignificant as the emotions — sadness, anger, or dismay — that she should feel on his behalf.
Results also demonstrated that the correlation between agent instructional style and a learner's intrinsic motivation becomes insignificant when controlling for a learner's positive emotion, B = .17, t 70) = .2145, p = .1852, thus endorsing the role of positive emotion as a full mediator between an agent's instructional style and a learner's intrinsic motivation.
What I wanted to try and do with the book, in part, was not to treat what might seem to be irrational emotions and instinct as obviously meaningless or insignificant within public political debate.
"In recent years," Dr. Pennebaker and Mr. Lay wrote in their report, "an increasing number of studies have suggested that the seemingly insignificant words that people use are particularly telling about their emotions, motives and life circumstances".
Yet the way in which Walser then breathes life into them, in an act of complete assimilation and empathy, reveals how in the end emotions are perhaps most deeply felt when applied to the most insignificant things.
The Turkish Government is expected to fall this week, but the country is caught up in such an intense wave of emotion that even the fall of a Government seems almost insignificant.
The correlation between salivary cortisol levels and skindex-16 was also found statistically insignificant (global, r = −0.07, P = 0.70; symptoms, r = 0.09, P = 0.62; emotions, r = −0.38, P = 0.39; functioning, r = −0.20, P = 0.30).
Happy, romantic or sad emotions have shown to increase serum prolactin levels in women but only marginally and probably to a functionally insignificant level [ 4].
Emotion finally takes centre stage in the hard-won ending, the son cradled in his father's arms, everything else insignificant.
