Using a visual probe task, Mogg and Bradley (in press) found that, in comparison with nonfearful participants, individuals with high levels of spider-fear showed a greater attentional bias for briefly (200 ms) presented spider pictures, and that this bias in the high-fear group significantly reduced as the exposure duration increased, …

Within this introduction, I shall be using two somewhat obscure pieces of literary extemporania. I would like you to read each of the following two works, taking on one at a time.

For example, in “A Family Matter” he treats the interaction of character and personality within a family group of three brothers and their respective wives and children when the father - a most unpatriarchial patriarch - decides to settle down with one of them.

I have seen a medicine / That's able to breathe life into a stone