Sentence examples for negative items from inspiring English sources

The negative items thought to negatively influence walking included physical disorder, broken windows, and graffiti.

With respect to syntactic position, we find that negative items in subject or adverbial position contribute more negativity than negative items in direct object position.

It was filled with negative items paid for by McCain's campaign.

(A) Contextual memory for hits was selectively preserved for negative items in the sleep group.

The results contrast with similar research, which has previously observed improved memory for only negative items.

Specifically, sleep led to less negative ratings of negative items for old (t(45) = 3.0, P = 0.004), but not new (t(45) = 0.2, P = 0.84) items, suggesting that sleep reduces the emotionality of previously memorized negative items.

Total as well as separate scores for positive and negative items were computed by summing scores of individual items.

As predicted, we observed a selective preservation of contextual memory across 12 h for negative items in the sleep group (Fig. 2A).

For negative items, this effect was specific to previously seen items, suggesting a sleep-mediated emotional depotentiation of existing negative memories.

Further analyses indicated that these effects did not depend importantly on whether negative items had been presented to the left or right during encoding (Supplementary Information).

On a neural level, we found that cortisol reduced amygdala reactivity related to the retrieval of these same consolidated, negative items.