Participants in the written presentation group trained to make negative interpretations actually interpreted ambiguous events less negatively and anticipated less negative consequences of these events compared with their baseline reports.
Both mental health-related quality of life and life satisfaction were negatively associated with the negative interpretations 'loss' and 'enemy', but also with 'call for help', while physical health did not correlate with any of the disease interpretations.
In particular, the study revealed that negative interpretations of social stimuli, increased self-focused attention, and negatively biased pre- and post-event processing differentiated high and low socially anxious adolescents.
"This relates very much to the way people with the disorder apply negative interpretations to apparently innocuous things.
For the moment, YouGov's first two post-budget polls leave us all dangling between the positive and negative interpretations of the chancellor's measures.
There is arguably an unintended mismatch between the positive and negative interpretations of Fletcher's behaviour, although also something heroic in the film's final apparent attempt to resolve this tension musically.
"On the back of the weary and ever more negative interpretations of my [interview with Xfm]," Smith wrote on the Cure's website, "I will try to explain a very simple chain of events as clearly and succinctly as I can, given … constraints like not wanting to name too many names or point too many fingers".
The findings imply that women may develop improved tolerance for menopausal flushing through challenging negative interpretations of the experience.
Results demonstrated that both the anxiety and disgust mood induction groups displayed higher levels of negative interpretations of the ambiguous threat scenarios than the neutral and happy groups.
In general, results provide some support for cognitive models of obsessions and suggest that negative interpretations of intrusive thoughts may be causally related to symptoms of OCD.
Nowadays most social choice theorists have moved beyond the early negative interpretations of Arrow's theorem and are interested in the trade-offs involved in finding satisfactory decision procedures.
