The term "negative assumption" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a belief or idea that is pessimistic or unfavorable. Example: "Jake made negative assumptions about the new project, thinking it would be a failure before it even started."
I'm trying to obey the rules with the arched eyebrow of possibility and not the furrowed brow of cynical negative assumption.
She challenges nearly every negative assumption about adoption and argues persuasively that the assumptions may themselves be the chief causes of the bad results they predict.
It means that a person will make a negative assumption when it is actually not supported by any facts.
By its orientation, it also does not have an overly negative assumption about human nature and consequently is not obsessed with crime and punishment.
The participants' negative assumption that most of their team members harboured disapproving attitudes about guidelines may be explained by a discrepancy between what was articulated among the nursing personnel, for assumed reasons of social acceptance, and what each participant actually believed, as the overall attitude among participants was mainly positive.
Continue asking them negative assumption questions until they agree to the sale.
There are all these negative assumptions.
"Because of her negative assumptions, she was convinced that she would be unlucky," Fallon said.
What women alone appear to encounter is a powerful set of negative assumptions associated with motherhood.
It provides a lot of the raw material that feeds their negative assumptions about politicians.
Maytree's support was clearly crucial in saving Robinson's life: listening without judgment, challenging negative assumptions and helping to create optimism for the future.
