Losing Florida could begin the type of downward spiral for Romney that would lead to even less pleasant consequences.
Specifically, when these individuals receive body signals, they cannot easily differentiate between those, which are associated with potential aversive (or pleasant) consequences versus those, which are part of constantly ongoing and fluctuating interceptive afferents.
Despite being overlooked for years, because parent mentoring, student tutoring and good old-fashioned hard work aren't sexy, his phones have been ringing these days as a result of pleasant, unintended consequences.
"That is the most pleasant part of consequences," Oliver joked.
Presumably, agreeable people engage easily in using considerate behaviours, and as a consequence, produce pleasant affective responses in others (Moskowitz & Côté, 1995).
Rewarding yourself after you've faced a challenge is an example of "operant conditioning," or presenting a pleasant reward as a consequence of an action, and it's very effective in changing your behavior.
It made sense in the short term, but there were consequences, both pleasant and unpleasant.
Should Bush be reëlected, the likely consequences aren't pleasant to contemplate, though one can debate just how dire they'll be.
Some are concerned that when machines eventually acquire a basic sense of their own existence, the consequences will not be pleasant.
