A more parsimonious explanation for this finding is that the relatively higher activation observed for HWLs with suffering imagery was due to the presence of human faces in the stimuli (all 19 suffering HWLs contained human faces).
42 It is also important to note that some of the suffering images (4 of 19) portrayed visible body damage, and thus suffering imagery was not entirely distinct from graphic imagery used in the current experiment, and research based on self-reported ratings indicated that this combination produces the strongest ratings.
9 13 32 Results suggesting the greater impact of imagery of suffering than graphic imagery are not necessarily inconsistent with this research.
Elsewhere, say on "Winter is All Over You", they entwine backwoods imagery and romantic suffering as cannily as big American brothers like Midlake.
There is also simple human decency, and the difficult trade-off of not insulating comfortable western audiences from the world's horrors, while not needlessly causing a dead person's loved ones additional suffering by showing gratuitously violent imagery.
All Hannan asked of his readers was to follow his empirical tour d'horizon: globally, according to UN statistics, the number of people dying violently has fallen by 6% since 2000; there has been a drop of eight percentage points in the number of people suffering from malnutrition since 1990; satellite imagery suggests that green spaces have grown by 14% over the past three decades; and so on.
As with schizophrenia (Section 4.3), assessment of imagery in patients suffering from depression should also take into account the presence of generalised cognitive deficits (Castaneda, Tuulio-Henricksson, Marttunen, Suvisaari, & Lönnqvist, 2008).
Some experimental research has found the self-reported effectiveness of pictorial HWLs is highest when it contains graphic images that depict the physical effects of smoking, followed by imagery of personal suffering (usually including a face), and finally by symbolic representations of smoking effects that use abstract imagery or symbols to represent risk.
This dialectic would keep swinging back and forth, as the band's singer and songwriter, Mikael Akerfeldt, conjured his suffering, in English, with Proust-Poe imagery; his voice is sensitive, measured, accessible.
The primary finding from this study was that children suffering from RAP who learned guided imagery with progressive muscle relaxation were much more likely to improve and ultimately be healed than children learning breathing techniques alone.
Among the imagery used to depict the suffering of an AIDS patient is a scene of ants crawling on a crucifix.
