Sentence examples for preferred negative from inspiring English sources

Neurons that preferred negative valence had the opposite response profile.

Plots depict length (in degrees of visual angle) of first saccades toward the preferred (negative x-axis) and non-preferred (positive x-axis) features relative to central fixation (0 degrees).

At some point, the neurotically wired begin to prefer negative certitudes -- or compartmentalized threats -- to ambiguity.

Or is the culprit the media, which prefers negative reports for their sensationalism?

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.

Strikingly, PCSK5, the enzyme that prefers negative rather than positive expression correlation with its putative targets shares few genes with other PCSK enzymes.

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.

Truck drivers reported that they would like to receive more feedback and that positive feedback was preferred over negative feedback.

Because of a strong overdispersion in the outcome variable, we preferred the negative binomial model over the Poisson model.