He then instructed participants to imagine how she feels, or, to imagine how they would feel in her situation, and found that both conditions produced feelings of empathy.
Social psychologist Daniel Wegner and his colleagues first studied thought suppression in a laboratory setting in 1987 by instructing participants to avoid all thoughts of a white bear.
She will instruct participants of how to maximize Chi, or "breath of life," in their own landscaping.
McCanne & Anderson (1987) instructed participants to suppress or increase the zygomatic or corrugator muscle while imagining pleasant or unpleasant scenes.
A third cue, instructing participants to attend to neither left nor right, served as a control, non-spatial condition.
The course instructs participants in the practical skills necessary to recognize, avoid, and respond to potential terrorist threat situations.
The eight-hour family-friendly programs are led by institute naturalists who instruct participants on how to use spotting scopes and binoculars.
But after news of the case hit Tokyo Joe's Web site on Wednesday, the chat room's operators sent a message instructing participants to limit discussions to stocks.
In between takes, while the cameramen debated angles and producers instructed Soviet participants how to play their roles, the same chords periodically floated through the room.