If positive emotions widen the sphere of what it is to be human, as positive psychology asserts, then positive psychology, at least as it is taught in the classroom, can seem to narrow it.
Experimental tests assert the positive effect of H2O2 addition and likewise the effect of aeration.
Motivated by theoretical arguments (see e.g. Romer (2010) and Mokyr (2008)) that assert a positive impact of institutions on R&D, this paper aims to provide some empirical analysis on the relationship between the two variables.
Our hypothesis is that the regional nature of structural and functional constraints will assert a positive autocorrelation on the evolutionary rates of neighboring sites, which, in a pairwise comparison of orthologous proteins, will manifest itself as the clustering of non-synonymous changes across the amino acid sequence.
America's birth charter, the Declaration of Independence, asserts a positive answer to the question, and in lieu of an argument offers another assertion: that our equality is self-evident.
The choice heartened senior Republicans, some of whom have worried that Mr. Romney's campaign has become mired in the often small back-and-forth with the Obama campaign without asserting a positive vision.
The Renaissance, and with it civic humanism, appears as a decisive turning point, asserting the positive values of modernity.
No matter how much initiative a single cafe can take, Bakker asserts, making positive changes in the environment also means changing individual habits.
The opposite seems to be true; the better income asserts a positive impact on the quality of life.
We describe the Hedonic Treadmill theory, which asserts that positive events only temporarily affect happiness since people quickly return to hedonic neutrality.
