Given that prolonged cognitive bias modification tasks are often experienced as boring or monotonous by participants (Brosan, Hoppitt, Shelfer, Sillence and Mackintosh, 2011), it is encouraging that this short, scenario-based interpretation training was successful in inducing a positive interpretation and judgmental bias.
Results are reported in Table 3 that demonstrate there was a significant increase towards a positive interpretation bias in the Positive group for target scenarios, irrespective of OC status.
In previous studies we have observed a positive association between spirituality/religiosity and a positive interpretation of disease in terms of reflection and change of life [ 19, 21, 22], which could explain the linkage between religious denomination and this positive disease interpretation.
The response rate we found was lower than in the initial phase 2 studies of this combination [ 7, 8] but nevertheless compatible with a positive interpretation, given that in the near future the proportion of metastatic breast cancer patients who are eligible for a treatment with trastuzumab, but have already received taxanes as adjuvant, will increase.
This word resolved the ambiguity of the scenario, leading to a positive interpretation for most trials in the positive condition, and a negative interpretation for most trials in the negative condition.
Robert O'Brien, a spinner for Walker, put a positive interpretation on Walker being ignored for much of the debate.
In its positive interpretation the clause serves as the legal foundation of much of the U.S. government's regulatory power.
In a 2010 study, we showed that if you help people to develop a more positive interpretation of situations – more like those used by the rest of the population – this reduces their tendency to worry".
However, decision-makers are interested in minimizing the risk of an unsupported positive interpretation as well as the risk of overlooking a true difference.
But Frances Curran (no relation), the former Scottish Socialist party MSP who stood against Margaret Curran in the 2008 byelection – both lost to the SNP's John Mason – offers a more positive interpretation.
