Bees exposed to vigorous shaking designed to simulate a dangerous event judge ambiguous stimuli as predicting a negative outcome — a 'pessimistic' cognitive bias that is characteristic of anxious or depressed humans and other vertebrates in putative negative emotional states.
Research has indicated that 'threat conclusion' is indeed characteristic of anxious young people (Barrett et al. 1996; Bell-Dolan 1995; Bögels and Zigterman 2000; Creswell et al. 2005; Hadwin et al. 2006; Muris et al. 2000) as is an 'underestimation of the ability to cope' (Bögels and Zigterman 2000; Weems et al. 2007).
The negative, distorted image of oneself that is characteristic of socially anxious individuals [ 14] may include the stereotypes about the social groups to which they belong.
When one of these specimens which I wanted to photograph was coaxed into the open it became very angry, hissing, and striking the air each time the shutter clicked; I was trying to obtain a view of the vertical, rather than horizontal, pupil which is one of their distinguishing characteristics, but it was anxious to retreat to the privacy of the undergrowth.
A first step to clarifying the nature of this construct may be to derive empirically the criteria for the anxiety symptoms characteristic of late-life anxious depression.
Adjustment disorders with depressive, anxious, or mixed characteristics were diagnosed in less than 10% of the population.
A similar but broader research aim is to identify subtypes of late-life depression and to define the characteristics of these subtypes (eg, anxious depression may be one subtype of late-life MDD).
An anonymous questionnaire was used to obtain information about medical consultation in the past 14 days, hospitalisation in the past 12 months, drinking alcohol, smoking, illicit drug use, physical activity, secondhand smoke exposure, feeling depressed, feeling anxious and sociodemographic characteristics.
During the period of FDG uptake, NEC-induced freezing and ALN-induced cooing were assessed as increased BI, and decreased spontaneous vocalizations that are characteristic features of children with anxious temperament.
Sensory kids are sometimes rigid, anxious or distracted kids, characteristics that are not exclusive to the diagnoses of Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, Autism Spectrum, Anxiety Disorder or a host of other diagnoses that often have a sensory component.
The move - a simultaneous thwarting and reinvesting of the reader's anxious curiosity - is characteristic of the novel as a whole, which approaches its episodes not only as scenes to be vividly realised in their own right, but also as layers of meaning through which subsequent scenes will be refracted and interpreted.
