positivity

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not hopeful
a road to nowhereidiom
be in a funkidiom
be on a hiding to nothingidiom
be on the road to nowhereidiom
bleakly
bleakness
dispiritedly
dispiritedness
dispiritingly
doom and gloom
doomed
downcast
hiding
hope
hopeless
hopelessly
hopelessness
undone
unhopeful
what are you going to do?idiom

Examples of negativity

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In contrast, (bottom) the conjoint effects of negativity and peripheral serotonin accounted for 64% of the variance in self-injury.
Couples who engaged in high levels of hostile - withdrawn coparenting exhibited negativity toward each other in the form of tension, anger, irritation, or frustration.
The same hierarchical regression model was performed for maternal negativity.
At the same time, they showed a powerful negativity bias contrasting with the positivity biases of other girls.
In previous studies on adults, the anterior negativity was interpreted as signaling rule-based morphological processing.
The classifier violation led solely to a late left distributed negativity with an anterior focus.
In a narrower set of studies of syntactic anomaly an anterior negativity has been observed in the 300 - 500 ms latency range.
Intervention effects for these two aspects of child functioning were observed only among children characterized by negativity in infancy.
However, with regard to teenage motherhood, this negativity has not generally been evident.
Focusing on this 'negativity of movement' is crucial to recognise the translocal limitations of many of the discourses dancers confront and conciliate in their dance.
In contrast, the deaf subjects failed to show the early left anterior negativity for closed-class words.
The views of secondary pupils about their education may be complicated by the negativity that can arise during adolescence.
And, on the basis of several recent studies, we more specifically hypothesized that infants high in negativity would prove most susceptible to rearing influence.
This group of children displayed an unspecific broad negativity and no positivity in response to over-regularizations.
The studies include an assessment of positivity and negativity bias, cognitive complexity, and affective splitting across domains with attention to exposure to different maltreatment contexts.
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