Sentence examples for negative distortions from inspiring English sources

But it's also important to understand that if anxiety colours our perception of the world around us, these sorts of stereotypes may reinforce negative distortions and cause further suffering, regardless of whether or not it was meant as a joke.

"We were in the race for less than a month before she personally went on the attack and began airing these negative distortion ads," Mr. Lazio said.

"The view was expressed to us by several of those we interviewed, including current academic staff, that UCL's traditions had since come to be interpreted by some members of its community as 'anti-religious' rather than 'secular' and that this is a negative distortion of UCL's traditions," the report says.

When the channel capacity increases for a particular user, the I-heuristic first ranks all these frames in increasing order of their required transmission rates, and then breaks ties by a second ranking based on their increasing utility (negative distortion) to rate ratios.

As the barrier of false negative for distortion lesions is chiefly related to overlapped tissue, DBT was proved to be an expectant method to solve this problem [ 14].

This was evidenced by the fact that this MASQ-S AD-distortion negative correlation: was moderate and significant; was significantly greater than the non-significant correlations between distortion and other MASQ-S items; and was large and significant after partialling out scores on these other items.

Distortion, negative campaigning and mendacity seem to be run of the mill for Governor Romney.

STAI-T items assessing "depression" symptoms (Bieling et al., 1998) showed a moderate and significant negative correlation with distortion, r = −.42, P = .001, one-tailed.

There was also a significant negative relationship between distortion and MASQ-S, BDI-I and STAI-T total scores analysed individually, albeit with small effect sizes (Cohen, 1988), and a trend towards significance for STAI-S scores.

Consistent with predictions, there was a moderate and significant negative correlation between distortion and AD, r = −.41, P < .001, one-tailed, a small and non-significant correlation between distortion and GD, r = −.18, P = .19, and a trivial and non-significant correlation between distortion and AA, r = −.06, P = .66.66

We also discuss whether the REM sleep changes in depression may contribute themselves to the development of central symptoms of depression such as cognitive distortions including negative self-esteem and the overnight consolidation of negatively toned emotional memories.