Visual Core is one of the more pleasant ones, though — a custom system-on-a-chip (SoC) that's just been hanging out in the phone not really doing much of anything.
Patients are instinctively on their guard against hostile or uninterested doctors (and, studies show, more likely to sue them than more pleasant ones).
You may find that over time, the intensity of some moods decrease, while other sensations, hopefully the more pleasant ones,increase.
To illustrate this finding, we used a median split to divide participants into two groups: the more optimistic (n = 8) and the more pessimistic (n = 7), with pessimistic participants reporting significantly more pleasant relief (one-tailed t-test, p = 0.035).
The results confirmed that nasty pictures aroused Republicans more than pleasant ones did.
As I toweled dry, one brave doe came up and licked my hand -- a close encounter much more pleasant than the one with flirting barracuda.
Once again, I was in for a nice surprise -- if anything, my new room was prettier and more pleasant than the one at the Monge.
Researchers may not be amused by pictures of of chimps in T-shirts of business suits, but millions of other people are, and movie-star chimps may well have more pleasant lives than ones in zoos.
