Aides wanted Congress to have full ownership of the memo in case it turned out to be, in the anxious prediction of one White House official, "a dud". So the president's advisers made a decision to create at least the perception of distance between the White House and the House Intelligence Committee, leaving the public cheerleading for the memo's release largely to Republican lawmakers.
With just a month left before the Bush tax cuts expire and automatic spending cuts begin to take hold, markets were anxious about predictions that falling off the "fiscal cliff" could trigger another recession.
On the basis of the common assumption that the goal-directed control of attention is impaired in trait-anxious individuals, different predictions have been put forward concerning the neural correlates of this impairment.
The GOP is now optimistic but anxious after its embarrassing predictions in 2012: Krauthammer says it'll be a "wave election... but if we can't win back the Senate, maybe the party should find another country" to run in.
Posttraumatic stress symptoms and cigarette deprivation in the prediction of anxious responding among trauma-exposed smokers: a laboratory test.
The present investigation examined the main and interactive effects of posttraumatic stress symptom severity and 12-hr cigarette deprivation (cf. smoking as usual) in the prediction of anxious responding during a 4-min 10% carbon dioxide (CO₂ -enriched air laboratory CO₂ -enriched
That might have been reasonable in some ancient world, but is hardly right for today's.Selling a precise prediction to an anxious investor is like offering water to a parched explorer lost in the SaharaThe reason is that predictions lead to increased risk taking, hence to the accumulation of fragile exposures in the "tails".
When August came around, Blitt ventured a prediction: "Like a lot of anxious people, I've been obsessively watching all the forecasts, predictions, and computer models, hoping for a break in this feverish political season.
"We thought the animals would be more anxious, but we were making our prediction based on all the bias in the field that social disruption is always negative," she said.
Both treatments were focused on helping clients to shift their beliefs, assumptions, and predictions from being negative, depressive, anxious, and dysfunctional to being more realistic, positive, and adaptive.
