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And sure enough, this worked, in the sense that the first group of subjects were much more likely to disclose than the second.
That’s likely because they activate receptors in a broad range of brain areas, including the cortical regions for all the senses.
While serotonin’s role in the brain is complex and poorly understood, it likely plays an important part in integrating information from the eyes, nose, ears, and other sensory organs.
As we learn more, we’ll likely come to appreciate just how subjective and individual each person’s island universe of perception really is.
Our calculation shows that quantum tunneling of the Higgs field is not likely to occur in the next 10 to the 100 years, and this is a very long time.
Implicitly or explicitly, there is a narrative that all the people who are dying were somehow involved in the drug trade, and we infer this because they were either tortured or executed in a professional manner, or, most likely, both.
The two most likely largest inventions of our generation are the Internet and the mobile phone.
Hence our older people are likely to end up living distant from their children and the friends of their youth.
For example, only Americans now in their 70s or older today can remember the experience of living through a great depression, the experience of living through a world war, and agonizing whether or not dropping atomic bombs would be more horrible than the likely consequences of not dropping atomic bombs.
Those who had been asked to think about being dead were afterwards twice as likely to express faith in God and Jesus.
Twice as likely.
We firmly believe it's likely to be a leftover archaeological remnant from the process of the birth of another planetary system, some celestial driftwood.
Depression is the result of a genetic vulnerability, which is presumably evenly distributed in the population, and triggering circumstances, which are likely to be more severe for people who are impoverished.
(Game piece smacks board) We were more likely to see signs of dominance and nonverbal signs, displays of power and celebration among the rich players.
In surveys, we've found that it's actually wealthier individuals who are more likely to moralize greed being good, and that the pursuit of self-interest is favorable and moral.
And we were really interested in who's more likely to offer help to another person: someone who's rich or someone who's poor.
We've had people play games to see who's more or less likely to cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize.
We've run other studies, finding that wealthier individuals are more likely to lie in negotiations, to endorse unethical behavior at work, like stealing cash from the cash register, taking bribes, lying to customers.
But what we're finding is that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to pursue a vision of personal success, of achievement and accomplishment, to the detriment of others around you.
And if it's the case, as we've been finding, that the wealthier you are, the more entitled you feel to that wealth, and the more likely you are to prioritize your own interests above the interests of other people, and be willing to do things to serve that self-interest, well, then, there's no reason to think that those patterns will change.
And it's quite likely that they'd have a quite simple mobile phone as a phone kiosk.
The interesting thing is that intuitive eaters are less likely to be overweight, and they spend less time thinking about food.
And a small indulgence, like eating one scoop of ice cream, is more likely to lead to a food binge in controlled eaters.
Several long-term studies have shown that girls who diet in their early teenage years are three times more likely to become overweight five years later, even if they started at a normal weight, and all of these studies found that the same factors that predicted weight gain also predicted the development of eating disorders.
And as you'd expect, the healthier the lifestyle, the less likely people were to die during the study.
If you think about this, the typical outcome of dieting is that you're more likely to gain weight in the long run than to lose it.
Today, we know that women are 70 percent more likely to experience depression over their lifetimes compared with men.
Now we know that women are more likely to experience the symptoms of fatigue, sleep disturbance, pain and anxiety compared with men.
Today, what we know is that women who are nonsmokers are three times more likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer than are men who are nonsmokers.
Now, this is a profound question because the answer is likely yes, but your doctor may not know the answer, at least not yet.
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