But we also see here something that pessimism does allow, and other negative states of mind do not: humour.
Though reflexive and sometimes unavoidable, negative states like disappointment, obligation, and jealousy are not particularly useful during gift exchanges.
But for others, the feelings in their bodies are interpreted as "terror" or other similarly negative states".
He seems to have specialised in creating extremely smooth marble sculptures depicting people in negative states of mind, from smugness to agony.
Her dissertation used behavioral and neuroscience methods to examined how negative states like fear and aversion influence thinking and decision-making.
First we learn how to identify our different positive and negative mental states, and then we apply methods for eliminating negative states and cultivating positive ones.
For years, research has shown that reducing depression, stress, anxiety, and other negative states decreases the risk of heart disease and other maladies.
Over the last few decades numerous studies have shown negative states, such as depression, anger, anxiety, and hostility, to be detrimental to cardiovascular health.
He argued that actions that support survival are good and yield pleasure, while actions that are destructive, which he called "countersurvival actions," perpetuate negative states.
A challenge in the structure-based design of specificity is modeling the negative states, i.e., the complexes that you do not want to form.
For example, people in negative states attend to threats, retrieve negative memories, and make negative judgements about ambiguous stimuli more than happier people.
