Little evidence exists that hormetic phenomena play a role in either defining human populations at elevated toxicity risk or in ameliorating or otherwise affecting heightened risk, particularly with prenatal or early postnatal exposures.
Rather than focusing on the ethics of land grabbing, the report makes the business case for working with local communities, arguing that failure to inform or fairly compensate affected locals heightens the risks to investors.
A flat or blunted affect is associated with schizophrenia, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder; heightened affect might suggest mania, and an overly dramatic or exaggerated affect might suggest certain personality disorders.
The intensity of the affect may be described as normal, blunted affect, exaggerated, flat, heightened or overly dramatic.
Or, as Dr. Dunbar and his colleagues write, "the sense of heightened affect in this context probably derives from the way laughter triggers endorphin uptake".
But the heightened affect on this occasion owes no small amount to the skill of writing that makes even the passing details count.
This could suggest that those participants who have a general propensity for experiencing positive affect showed a heightened negative response to more unexpected loss feedback.
It could, for example, acknowledge and describe various and specific states of helplessness, heightened affect, and hyper-vigilance into which people are rendered when they are targeted for being less than manly, or less than desirable to men.
Despite having no contact for years, Charice tells "Oprah: Where Are They Now?" that her father's death affected her greatly and heightened difficult personal issues she had been struggling with, like her sexuality and gender identity.
How do states' asymmetric interactions affect the heightening frictions in the SCS?
