For example, nausea reduction in women could only be achieved when the placebo intervention was "enhanced" by conditioning, while men responded primarily to verbally suggested improvement.
Sallie Mae's lawyers verbally suggested working out a settlement, but it felt like a trap: the judge said that, if I missed a single payment, my balance would revert back to $77,000 and none of the payments I would've made in the interim would be counted against that balance.
He need only verbally suggest someone do something -- shoot themselves, leave their child on the sidewalk, toss hot coffee in their own face -- and they will do it without hesitation.
All of our staff members promise to make recurrent, familiar eye contact with you, non-verbally suggesting that you know each other from somewhere and that you're being rude by failing to remember where.
A first possibility is that a verb activates cerebral motor areas since it brings about a motor image of the verbally presented action — suggesting that activation of the motor system takes place at the post-lexical level.
Purdue was verbally badgered as he left the room after suggesting that the Visualizing Cultures Web site be placed back online without an apology but including a comments section for people to share their thoughts and ideas.
This finding seems to jibe with Dr. Brown's research, suggesting that the less men risk emoting verbally, the more appealing they appear.
But as well as verbally abusing Ellement, Fulton suggested in a police interview that the threesome had been a joke.
Conclusions: The results of the present study suggest that verbally induced expectations of increased pain engage cortical physiological defensive systems that in turn mediate the experience of increased pain.
Although the actress encouraged the actor verbally, her nonverbal behavior suggested the opposite (e.g., cramping, pushing the actor away during initial penetration).
