This study compared arousal ratings of unpleasant, neutral, pleasant, and threat stimuli from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS; Lang, P.J., Bradley, M.M., Cuthbert, B.N. 2008. International Affective Picture System (IAPS): Affective Ratings of Pictures and Instruction Manual (Technical Report A-8).
The start of spring brings blooming flowers, balmier temperatures and something else not so pleasant: the threat of tornadoes.
For the most part, though, Californians are a hardy bunch, willing to choose geographic splendor and pleasant weather over the threat of any old earthquake.
When you wake up in the morning, you will be glad that bird flu, swine flu, anthrax, climate change and the dead of winter remain, on this pleasant June day, only threats, and you will be especially glad that you are not spending your summer on the west coast of Greenland, even though the west coast of Greenland is one of the most interesting places in the world.
Biodiversity offsetting is a developers' charter that poses a significant threat to our green and pleasant land.
Yes, Cruz rocketed to prominence without warning, Hakeem Nicks is living up to his 2009 first-round draft pedigree, Mario Manningham was always a threat and Ballard has been a pleasant surprise.
He found Padua a more pleasant place to live than Venice, but the threat of war caused group to move to the University of Siena before the end of the year.
In general, the present results are in line with the data showing that attention does not only monitor and respond to signals of threat [4], [11], but also towards rewarding and pleasant events [9], [32], [34].
"It wasn't pleasant to have your reputation maligned on various websites – and reading about threats he made against me, that wasn't fun.
Mr. Shah said his interrogators used the threat of moving him to Guantánamo Bay to try to force cooperation, warning him conditions there would not be as pleasant.
But the row puts the Tory's claim to be the party of the countryside under serious threat, with MPs increasingly worried about the apparent indifference with which the leadership appears to view our green and pleasant land.
