Research by the psychologist Jonathan Haidt, for instance, suggests that disgust is a powerful trigger for moral condemnation — being grossed out makes us mean — even if we are disgusted for reasons that have nothing to do with the person or act we are judging.
This suggested to the researchers that kisspeptin is a powerful trigger for the chemical cascade that drives puberty.
"In our culture, we're tough on sadness, but it's a powerful trigger for seeking comfort and bonding," Keltner says.
As is well known, TNFα is a powerful trigger of reactive changes in astrocytes [ 19].
Detection of hypoxia is important because hypoxia is a powerful trigger for gene expression and thus clonal selection of a more aggressive phenotype, for example, diminished apoptotic potential (Gräber et al, 1996; Koong et al, 2000).
For British film fans, the Oscars are a powerful nostalgia trigger.
While calcium is a powerful 'death trigger' [ 35], magnesium is not [ 34]: magnesium inhibits calcium-induced cell death [ 36].
Smell, as Marcel Proust knew and recent research confirms, can be a peculiarly powerful trigger for memories.
Jealousy in men is primarily triggered by sexual infidelity, whereas emotional infidelity is a more powerful trigger for women.
Soman, an irreversible cholinesterase inhibitor, is a powerful warfare neurotoxicant triggering epileptic seizures leading to neuronal cell death and subsequent glial activation [29].
