But instead of our sweet-tooth, it's control of our psyches that's at stake, and that's what makes this a worrisome trend.
Those who study the psyches of criminals said Dorner's aggressive and self-aggrandizing rant indicates a classic case of malignant narcissist personality disorder.
Never in history have big corporations had more power, measured in both money and the amount of control that have on our psyches.
Obama and his crew talk of green shoots and signs of stability in the financial sector to try to apply balm to overwrought psyches.
It's the subtle touches that are actually the sweetest at holiday time, the quiet nuances that soothe our distracted psyches into moods of sharing and celebration.
The opening sequence, showing Mardi Gras revels in New Orleans through the frenzied chiaroscuro of streamers and wrought iron, evokes psyches already ratcheted to fever pitch.
Gruff and craggy, Hanssen consciously psyches out the younger man ("Your name is Clerk and you call me Sir or Boss, " he instructs an overly familiar Eric).
However, this fear was quickly dispelled as the verbal sword play that occurred in the first act mellowed and we were finally let into psyches of both characters.
For more than 50 years, he said, Dylan had "probed and prodded our psyches, recording and then changing our world and our lives through poetry made manifest in song".
We were asked about various unpleasant habits, interrogated about our personal lives and shrinks were called in to help the Stint folks correctly model the dark underbellies of our psyches.
The group dynamic often throws a monkey wrench into the psyches of headstrong competitors and places a premium on the kind of emotional grit that comes with age and experience.
Startups who snare giant paydays live on for decades in college classrooms, cramped Silicon Valley offices and the psyches of prodigy engineers toiling into the night for little or no salary.
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They are fighting to get good health care, to contribute to U.S. efforts at homeland security, to prepare the fire and police departments for potential attacks, and to help others repair their psyches after witnessing the worst possible.
They won't talk much, not to you, not to me, but they will talk to each other for years and they will understand the true cost of war to them, their bodies, their families, their psyches -- not necessarily damaged, but changed -- and to a nation that is also changed.
Finalists: "Rapture, Blister, Burn, " by Gina Gionfriddo, a searing comedy that examines the psyches of two women in midlife as they ruefully question the differing choices they have made, and "4000 Miles, " by Amy Herzog, a drama that shows acute understanding of human idiosyncrasy as a spiky 91-year-old locks horns with her rudderless 21-year-old grandson who shows up at her Greenwich Village apartment after a disastrous cross-country bike trip.
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