Represent to yourself, Sir, the situation of a family under these circumstances; surrounded as I am by Objects of distress; distracted with fear & grief; no words can express my feelings or paint the scene".
For obvious reasons, no one in Britain had much clout with Washington, so Asgill's mother, who was of French descent, wrote a melodramatic appeal to the French foreign minister, the Comte de Vergennes: "Surrounded as I am by objects of distress, distracted as I am by fear and grief, no words can express my feelings or paint the scene".Nonetheless, she had a go.
Consistent with a non-associative influence of UCS presentation on fear responses [30], [31], these findings indicate that B6 freezing is amplified by the experience of object distress regardless of its precise relationship to the CS.
The HR of B6 subjects then decelerated during repeated experiences of object distress.
First, the subject mice in the present experiments expressed minimal freezing behavior immediately after the induction of object distress.
Butler readily admitted that the psychological process that gives rise to compassion included both pleasure in the fact that we were not suffering the distress as well and awareness of our own susceptibility to the ills prompting distress in the object of our compassion.
By all accounts, before the FBI released the surveillance photos and asked for help identifying the suspects, the brothers acted normal, showing no signs of distress or intention to escape – until they became the objects of a manhunt.
Thus, for the experiments presented in Figure 4, freezing responses of subjects to object distress were evaluated within an enlarged observation compartment fitted to the size of the demonstration compartment (130×165×150 mm).
These are no longer sources of distress.
They tussle over gradations of distress.
