Sentence examples for unpleasant study from inspiring English sources

Consider then a poor person who knows that his only way to gain access to an expensive life-saving drug is to participate in a risky or very unpleasant study where the drug is provided free of charge.

We tested whether participants would be motivated to increase unpleasant (Studies 1 3) or pleasant (Study 3) emotions in others, when they expected to benefit from doing so.

In two studies, participants recalled past pleasant and unpleasant experiences (Study 1) and competitive events in which there was a clear winner and loser (Study 2) and rated their temporal judgments of these experiences.

"The fatty acid part of taste is very unpleasant," said study author Richard Mattes, a Purdue nutrition science professor.

Only the unpleasant words, the study found, have predictive power.

Importantly, there were no differences in familiarity ratings for both the pleasant and unpleasant tunes in our study.

Human brain imaging studies have revealed new roles of cortical neuronal networks in chronic pain, including its unpleasant quality, and mouse studies have provided molecular and synaptic mechanisms underlying relevant cortical plasticity.

This concept can surface in unpleasant ways, such as one study in London that mapped the presence of coffee shops against fried chicken shops, looking for cheap areas that showed signs of being "'legitimately' up and coming".

Women in this study described their unpleasant feelings related to their inability to have intimate relationships with their husbands as a serious and painful experience: I cannot have sex with my husband.

Several studies reveal that unpleasant pictures elicit higher beta and gamma responses than pleasant and/or neutral pictures; however, the effect of stimulation design (block or random) has not been studied before.

Based on fMRI, studies have compared unpleasant and pleasant music [15], music in minor and major mode [42], or music and scrambled music [43].