Sentence examples for prefer negative from inspiring English sources
At some point, the neurotically wired begin to prefer negative certitudes -- or compartmentalized threats -- to ambiguity.
Even when you are screaming at the top of your lungs with no acknowledgment from them, you are engaging and in turn giving attention; and the alcoholic/addict would prefer negative attention to no attention at all.
In addition, an alternative explanation for the present findings might be that sensitizers "want" to avoid positive pictures and do not prefer negative pictures (as we hypothesized), resulting in the same results.
Research among adults has consistently shown that people holding negative self-views prefer negative over positive feedback.
A series of studies (e.g., Swann et al. 1992, 1992) has provided robust empirical support for self-verification theory's assertion that negative self-views consistently lead people to prefer negative over positive self-relevant feedback.
Or is the culprit the media, which prefers negative reports for their sensationalism?
Neurons that preferred negative valence had the opposite response profile.
Strikingly, PCSK5, the enzyme that prefers negative rather than positive expression correlation with its putative targets shares few genes with other PCSK enzymes.
As Dr. King said of those aforementioned white moderates, they prefer: "a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice".
Two studies using a comparable methodology with community samples (Borelli and Prinstein 2006; Cassidy et al. 2003a, b) indicated that the tendency for children higher in depression and lower in global self-worth to prefer more negative feedback extends to non-clinical samples.
The problems were not peculiar to the White Citizens Councils or the Ku Klux Klan, he said in a famous letter from the Birmingham prison; they also afflicted "the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace, which is the absence of tension, to a positive peace, which is the presence of justice".
