Bush presses for Social Security benefit changes

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Bush Clarifies Social Security, Energy Plans

Bush presses for Social Security benefit changes

... Public surveys show that public approval of Bush's handling of the Social Security issue has fallen amid the campaign-style blitz. ...

Bush Clarifies Social Security, Energy Plans

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Outside The Beltway : The Blink Presidency
... Bush's blinks come in two basic varieties: judgments about people and about
broad policy. Bush may be a master at judging people�though one wonders what ...
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Bush's Brain "Blinks" ... The problem with most of Bush's "blink" decisions is
that there is no evidence of this foundation. What we see, instead, ...
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The eyes may well be the window to the soul, but they also are indicators of the mind's condition. People who have watched the presidential and vice-presidential debates earlier this month and preparing for the final debate on Oct. 13 could gather clues to the candidates' state of mind by watching the candidates' eyes.

Take blinking, for instance. The eyes blink without our control when we are anxious, scared, bored, tired, following the learning or storing of information. We blink less frequently when we are attending to both visually and aurally presented information; thus, when reading, our blink rate may go down to four to five blinks per minute while we "normally" blink anywhere between 15 to 30 times per minute.

According to John Stern, Ph.D., professor emeritus of psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, and pioneer of blinking research, there is solid evidence that people blink frequently at points in time when they momentarily stop taking in and processing information.

"When people are apprehensive, they blink more frequently, as well as when they are tired," said Stern, a member of Washington University's Center for Security Technologies, an interdisciplinary think tank devoted to developing innovations to address our nation's security problems. "There are other gaze control measures that my collaborators and I study, including eye movements, changes in pupil diameter, and minor head movements.
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