Sentence examples for pessimistic behaviour from inspiring English sources

In terms of the relationship between affective state and cognitive bias, these data suggest that negative affective states in rats and vulnerability to stress-induced anhedonia are associated with pessimistic behaviour in judgement bias tasks.

But until he tells me how to comfort a good teacher or a newly qualified one who is leaving the profession because of poor behaviour, I unfortunately remain pessimistic.

While working as a dining-car waiter, Jake encounters another point of view in Ray, a pessimistic college-educated Haitian immigrant who advocates behaviour based on racial pride.

The GPs indicated that they might opt to preserve the therapeutic alliance by strategically avoiding questions that could lead to conflict – especially if they were pessimistic of the likelihood of engendering patient behaviour change.

It is also possible that SRH is more susceptible to 'reporting behaviour' (ie, how optimistic or pessimistic people are about their health) 34 in a generally healthier population compared with subjective health ratings later on in the disease process.

Smokers held more pessimistic and avoidant beliefs about cancer, which could deter early-detection behaviour.

The observation that honeybees show pessimistic judgements in a go/no-go model raises some issues about how much this behaviour is related to any conscious experience of affective state (see Mendl et al., 2011 for a discussion).

This pessimistic but not inaccurate view explains much, from the excesses of absolute rulers like Caligula and Nero to the behaviour of pocket tyrants like the capots in Nazi concentration camps.

And, if people turn against them at the polls, they will never let go.Only one path to treadThe behaviour of Turkey's Islamists, to whom the Arab ones now look for inspiration, suggests this is too pessimistic.

That looks unduly pessimistic.

St Augustine was pessimistic.