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Answering too quickly with a negative statement of a positive assertion, such as "Did you wash those pots lazily?" answered by "No, I did not wash those pots lazily," as an attempt to avoid the impression of a delayed answer.[4].
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Conversely, those participants absolutely disagreeing with a "positive" statement or absolutely agreeing with a "negative" statement received scores of "1".
Karma Nabulsi, a lecturer in international relations who seconded the motion, urged the academics not to consider the motion as a negative statement, "but as an affirmation of who we are and the traditions we wish to preserve".
Participants absolutely agreeing with a "positive" statement, or absolutely disagreeing with a "negative" statement, were given scores of "7".
When there was neither a positive nor a negative statement about the outcome of cost assessment, it was assumed to be neutral for the purpose of the present analyses.
SD – standard deviation; DI – difficulty index; – items with a negative statement were recoded Extraction of the main components eigenvalue > 1); Varimax Rotation with Kaiser Normalization (rotation converged in 7 Iterations).
Mr. Negroponte noted that "Iraq made a pretty negative statement of their own, but even theirs was not as strident and vitriolic as the Cuban statement".
My own F.B.I. file includes a copy of a negative statement I made about the Vietnam War provided by an unnamed source.
Thus, a high score shows disagreement with a negative statement and is therefore suggestive of higher motivation.
People are much less likely to believe that a statement applies to them when it is a negative statement, such as "I often think of hurting people who do things I don't like". Thus, Barnum Effect reports primarily contain statements with mostly positive items, such as the items listed here.
The strong asymmetricalist position leads to the "paradox of negative judgment": if a positive statement refers or corresponds to a positive fact, to what state of affairs does a negative statement refer or correspond?
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