Sentence examples for a pleasantness from inspiring English sources

In the study phase, 40 of the drawings, half of which were of items that would be found in a kitchen, were presented visually and participants were cued to make either a semantic judgment ("would this item be found in a kitchen?") or a pleasantness judgment ("do you find the image pleasant?").

On a pleasantness vs. unpleasantness scale, MB subjects evaluated laser stimuli consistently as more pleasant than control subjects indicating that painful stimulation is evaluated as positive even in a setting in which masochistic behaviour is usually not practiced (i.e outside a sexual context).

In an event-related design, participants viewed English sentences that appeared every 4.5 9 s, and to which they made a pleasantness judgment.

In the fMRI machine, the subjects looked at the photos and ranked them on a pleasantness scale.

For each trial within each study session, participants were cued to make either a pleasantness or a commonness judgment.

The study stimulus was replaced by a response prompt for a further 1000 ms, resulting in a stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) of 3500 ms. Participants were instructed to imagine the object depicted in the picture in the background color and make a pleasantness judgment for the colored object; this encouraged participants to engage in item-context associations.

Some may consider this view of innocence as a pristine pleasantness to be old-fashioned prudishness; perhaps it is.

Those 1970's smiley-face buttons (lately revived in Great Britain) were unsubtle symbols of a repressive pleasantness.

"But we try to make it a pleasant experience, and this takes the pleasantness level up a few notches".

And there is an overall pleasantness and serenity that pervades.

While they vary in color palette, form, and themes, the gentle drawings of Matthew Houston have an overarching pleasantness that keeps you scrolling through his Instagram feed.