Sentence examples for negative shade from inspiring English sources

In our original validation study we did find that some lighter shades of purple were positive but 'Purple 17' was consistently found to be a negative shade [ 3].

Of the 34 individuals who chose a positive color at 9.00 am, 24 remained positive, 9 changed to neutral and only 1 converted to a negative shade.

Our results demonstrated that by asking an individual to relate their mood to a color, the choice of a negative shade was linked to depression and, to a lesser extent, anxiety.

Of the 23 individuals who chose a positive color at 9.00 am, 16 remained positive, 4 converted to a neutral shade and only 3 changed to a negative shade.

Another notable point was that the number of patients choosing a positive shade to describe their mood increased from 13 to 53 patients following HT and the number of patients choosing a negative shade decreased from 38 to 8 patients following treatment.

In further studies we have also shown, that when patients are asked to relate their disease rather than their mood to a color, they associate it with a negative shade irrespective of whether it gets better or not, whereas their mood color becomes positive when symptoms improve [ 4].

Using this instrument we have been able to classify colors into positive, neutral and negative shades and this study aimed to assess their predictive role in hypnotherapy.

For clarity in the results, the colors are always grouped into positive, neutral and negative shades rather than by their numerical position on the MCW.

For the purpose of this investigation, we used a permutation from our previous study [ 3] which divided the colors from the MCW into approximately equal numbers of positive, neutral and negative shades.

When this was undertaken reproducibility reached extremely high values of 88% and 91% respectively for positive or negative shades suggesting that this approach may be much more robust than relying on individual color choice.

Validation in healthy individuals as well as those with affective disorders facilitated the categorisation of colors into positive, neutral and negative shades where it was found that the shade of a particular color, for instance light or dark, was just as important as the actual color itself in determining how an individual reacted to it.