Moreover, Leithner et al. [ 6] reported that in their study, the investigated females tried to down-regulate their distress and fear by distraction or by thinking "agreeable thoughts".
In 1928 such a program was held to be counterproductive, and a more agreeable line of thought was called for.
"The picture I have seen drawn by enthusiastic newspaper hacks of the rich capitalist and the mechanic sitting here side by side in honorable community of thought is agreeable, but also entirely fanciful," he wrote.
Instead, he offers the agreeable frisson of the counterintuitive thought that seems plausible as long as you don't think too hard about it.
Conducting himself with as much shark-grinned spin before Morris's typically intimidating camera as he did when dodging questions about WMDs from the global media, Rumsfeld is an almost dismayingly agreeable interviewee, rarely pausing for thought as he rattles off canned, comfortable reflections on his political career.
Whatever is agreeable to all concerned, with a thought to the future when some might move.
On average, participants rated their fifteen minutes of contemplation slightly below the midpoint of "somewhat enjoyable," and those who zapped themselves did not rate being alone with their thoughts as significantly less agreeable than those who refrained.
Wearing a pair of cool, newish sneakers says to us I'm slightly mature and put thought into this, but not too much thought -- and since sneakers are comfortable, it's an agreeable choice of footwear for both parties.
It has, obviously, a form, an arrangement of sounds in relation to thoughts that somehow makes its agreeable nonsense closed, complete, and decisive.
