article_snippet.sent: The researchers tested The researchers thesis by showing 82 college students 40 photographs -- some of highly pleasant images, such as children with kittens, and some of highly unpleasant images, such as children who were malnourished.
article_snippet.sent: The subjects were then asked to rate the photos according to how unpleasant or pleasant The subjects were.
article_snippet.sent: The researchers followed up by testing a group of 85 people to see whether this change in judgment applied just to emotions or whether the drug blunted people's evaluation of magnitude in general.
article_snippet.sent: a group of 85 people showed the same blunting of emotional reactions.
article_snippet.sent: But people who participated in A new study did not appear to know people who participated in the study were acting differently, said Baldwin Way, an assistant professor of psychology who was another of A new study's authors.
article_snippet.sent: But have no fear -- the study's authors plan to study that question, as well.