If covering one's face arouses suspicion, the ability to cover one's face without arousing suspicion would seem to favour the deceiver.
Sometimes they can be a positive method of promoting language use (Aaltonen & Laakso, 2010; Bauer & Kulke, 2004) and, in other instances, a behaviour that engenders a threat to face, arouses frustration and even distress (Burch et al., 2002; Lock et al., 2001).
They face an aroused public, a unified Congress and an international alliance that is eager to help -- at least on the surface.
Regional leaders, who for years had successfully ignored the faceless flood of North Korean refugees, suddenly found themselves facing an aroused public opinion.
Although both South Asian and White participants found White infant faces more arousing than South Asian infant faces, the pattern of data differed for adult faces: Both South Asian and White participants found other-race adult faces more arousing than own-race adult faces.
Given that the S/L monkeys found images of high status male faces more arousing, as measured by pupil diameter, in the free-viewing task, we expected that image-primed gambling would also vary as a function of 5-HTTLPR genotype.
Gerda's helplessness in the face of heartbreak arouses Briony's protective instincts, and she and a waitress end up discussing the tawdry and cliché nature of such a predicament.
The only other sort of visual stimulus that aroused those face tracing neurons, Dr. Tsao said, were round objects — clocks, apples and the like.
Vanity Fair's article begins inside an upmarket bar in Manhattan's financial district in which everyone is Tindering; their rapt, aroused faces illuminated by the lights of their phones.
Similarly, in facing situations that arouse anger, a virtuous agent must determine what action (if any) to take in response to an insult, and although this is not itself a quantitative question, his attempt to answer it properly requires him to have the right degree of concern for his standing as a member of the community.
These adult challenges are the source of most adult emotional conflicts, because facing them can arouse tremendous fear, denial or escapism.
