Experiments in humans consisted in sniffing odorized vials and rating compound pleasantness, intensity and familiarity on a 9-point scale ("not at all" (1) to "extremely" (9) pleasant, intense or familiar).
Within the scanner, subjects reported all odorants as pleasant and intensity increasing with trigeminal concentration.
They danced at a pleasant low intensity, avoiding any new or tricky moves that might jostle the drinks in their right hands or stress their knees, the weakest part of them.... If, toward the end of a weekend party night, you spied one puking behind a hedge, he'd grin and salute you, then carry on heaving.
The movie has long stretches of pleasant, low-intensity narrative, with people going in and out of buildings and climbing stairs and reading letters, and so on, but it never develops the slightest urgency.
The results showed that with the inhalation of a pleasant odour, pain intensity was reduced in human subjects [ 30– 30].
For example, many unpleasant odorants tend to decrease in pleasantness sharply with increasing intensity, whereas as observed here, many pleasant odorants tend to have only a moderate increase in pleasantness until they reach a plateau (Doty 1975).
Like Fassel, Edwards has a passion and intensity underneath a pleasant personality.
It's a well-crafted, handsome period piece, and pleasant to watch, but the intensity of an obsessional style — something that matches Florentino's crazy single-mindedness — is beyond Newell's range.
Partial correlation analysis controlling for pain rating, pain evaluation (i.e. pleasant vs. unpleasant) and stimulation intensity revealed comparable results (controlling for pain rating: Rho = −0.731; controlling for pain evaluation: Rho = −0.799; controlling for stimulation intensity: Rho = −0.771).
Such increases correlated with the intensity of emotions of pleasant nature, characterized by tender and calm feelings, but also with Sadness that entails more negative feelings.
Subjects reported difficulty in rating the pleasantness as well as the intensity of the stimuli of this mixture; they reported that they were all mild and pleasant, as expressed by the large variances in the psychophysical attributes.
