Individuals highly sensitive to rewards tend to experience more food cravings and are more likely to be overweight or develop eating disorders than other people. Researchers recruited healthy volunteers and scored their reward sensitivity using a questionnaire. The subjects were then presented with images of appetizing foods while their brain activity was measured using functional MRI. Reward sensitivity was found to correlate with brain activity in response to the images. Identify the explanatory and response variables in this study.

But on an april morning in 1959, i heard a mother of four, having coffee with four other mothers in a suburban development fifteen miles from new york, say in a tone of quiet desperation, “the problem.” and the others knew, without words, that she was not talking about a problem with her husband, or her children, or her home. suddenly they realized they all shared the same problem, the problem that has no name. which best describes the connotation of the word “desperation”? negative, because the woman is feeling confused negative, because the woman is expressing hopelessness positive, because the woman is expressing herself positive, because the woman and the mothers are in agreement

According to thorstein veblen, a successful businessman would be most likely to demonstrate his worth to others by:

The social contact theory states that