These involuntary shifts of attention may be linked to overall alertness and arousal levels (Kahneman, 1973) such that when underaroused and bored, less attention is devoted to remaining engaged in the current task, and thus more easily captured by potent distractors (Lenartowicz, Simpson, & Cohen, 2013).
A more recent history is explored by "BEAUTIFUL LOSERS: CONTEMPORARY ART AND STREET CULTURE," a group show devoted to creative rebels engaged in the youthful subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk and hip-hop while knocking on the door of high art.
In what sense, for example, is the practitioner of rational psychology (the branch of special metaphysics devoted to the soul) engaged in a study of being?
We pay with the time and attention that we have to devote to being engaged in using the search platform.
Much effort was devoted to using cultural cues to engage these patients, and the Union was used as a common, trusted institution to enhance reach.
Author, reader, devoted to her piano, deeply engaged friend to so many.
The film is devoted to the only truths worth engaging, about love, sex and death, all questions unasked in the neutered, cutesy world of, say, "Napoleon Dynamite" and the like.
This lucid biography presents a warmer and more socially engaged Thoreau, devoted to his friends and family and fond of belting out sea shanties at parties.
One of them is the head of the Islamic Propagation Organisation, charged with everything from assigning clerics to mosques to determining the sermons delivered at Friday prayers in central Tehran.These clerics, with a common past devoted to perpetuating revolutionary ideals, are engaged in an all-consuming battle over the meaning of "freedom".
It is rampant everywhere on television -- not only on broadcast networks, but also on cable outlets like TLC, where "Love U.," a show devoted to testing just how ready engaged couples are for the rigors of marriage, is scheduled to have its premiere next week.
