Sentence examples for a more negative disposition from inspiring English sources

From clinical observation consistent with these findings [ 42, 43], we propose an alternative hypothesis for HEV that one hemisphere may have a more negative disposition and that the other may have one that is more positive, but that the side with the more negative HEV varies among subjects.

Lower scores indicated a more negative response.

The study concludes, for example, that a person with a negative disposition might read reviews before watching a movie, focus only on negative reviews, and end up not enjoying the movie either because they were influenced by the negative reviews or simply see themselves as contrary people.

A logical extension of the emotion regulation account is that those of a negative disposition will experience more state anger and therefore will reject a greater proportion of unfair offers.

Instead, the relationship between dispositional affect and rejection behaviour may be underpinned by perceived self worth, with those of a positive disposition believing that they are "worth more than that" and those of a negative disposition resigning themselves to "taking the crumbs from under the table".

England fans of a slightly negative disposition may focus on South Africa's opportunity to wrap up the series and claim the number one spot in the world rankings.

People used to ignore him or treat him with a "general negative disposition", but now they are far friendlier.

Positive numbers denote a positive disposition towards a person or group and negative numbers denote a negative disposition.

For them, there is no such thing as good news -- not when their mother or father is chronically ailing or, worse, in good health but with a bitter or negative disposition.

Facione (2002) [ 32] found scores ranging from 10 to 30 to indicate an increasingly negative disposition; scores ranging from 40 to 60 to indicate an increasingly positive disposition; scores between 30 and 40 to indicate ambivalence (i.e. expression of positive or negative disposition).

A higher score on the positive scale designates a more favourable disposition toward older adults and a higher score on the negative scale denotes a more unfavourable disposition toward older adults.