And consider the role perception plays in helping patients improve in ailments ranging from pain and depression to Parkinson's disease through a phenomenon known as the placebo effect.
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The researchers found that the girls with CD had less gray matter in an area of the brain called the amygdala, which not only governs our fear response, but it plays a role in our perception of whether others are experiencing fear or not.
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By attacking the US's strongest ally while making light of the actual conflicts plaguing the area, Rice showed that in the Horn of Africa her view of her role as chief US diplomat is no different from her perception of her role in the Middle East and Asia.
But most people in these communities had deep personal as well as economic adaptations to make, changes in self-perception, role, usefulness, fulfillment and potential.
And there's also an opportunity here, an extraordinary moment, really, for President Bush to change the perception of his role in the world.
He also writes passionately about the role of symmetry in human perception and the arts, and the fundamental importance of symmetry in the laws of physics.
Perception plays an important role in maintaining national resilience and public order.
Some witnesses before the committee suggested the police might play a role in assessing whether donors' perception that they may be under risk was based on reality.
Just like with depression or any other mental health disorder, public (and media) perception still plays a big role.
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The killing of Trayvon Martin, initially overlooked even in Florida, became a national sensation once activists persuaded the media that race played a role in the teenager's shooting (a perception deepened by NBC's misleading editing of George Zimmerman's 911 call).
Though individuals may of course beat the trend, there is also a generic valuation you can apply to commonly held titles, based on the mismatch between the self-perception and other-perception of the average senior executive in the role.
Brown noted that he had requested his staff at the Bureau of Export Administration to come up with strategies to change the "perception" that Commerce was playing a "secondary role" to the Departments of State and Defense on export controls.
Notably, the perception of economic improvement rather than actual economic health itself plays a key role in voting patterns, the research shows.
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But while fear of the charge of Islamophobia does play a role in Western kowtowing to Islamic supremacists, the West's aversion to the perception that it is oppressing those it once oppressed fails to provide an adequate explanation for its willingness to collaborate with Islamic supremacist attempts to blot out Jewish history.
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