Consistent with this hypothesis, in an undergraduate sample, increased risk for development of bipolar disorder, as indexed by elevated scores on the Hypomanic Personality Scale, was significantly associated with positive generalization, defined as the tendency to generalize from a good experience in one domain of life to broader aspects of life (Eisner et al., 2008; Carver & Johnson, 2009).
But for all his love of the real, the literal, the earnest — for all his desire, if you will, to live up to his given name — Frank does have a tendency to generalize, and to drive off into abstraction: "There are many different kinds of people on the planet — people who never let you forget a mistake, people who're happy to.
Last month, her tendency to generalize got her in trouble with a number of novelists, Zadie Smith (mother of two) and Jane Smiley (mother of three, stepmother of two, herself an only child) among them, when she wrote a piece for The Atlantic's Web site celebrating women writers like Joan Didion and Elizabeth Hardwick who had one child.
"There's always a tendency to generalize from the outlier," Hart said to an audience of policy and immigration experts at a 13 May presentation sponsored by Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration.
This way, we quantify the tendency to generalize positive and negative aspects of the biographies, with the purpose of testing if this generalization depends on the gender of the person being described.
One other complaint I have is that Rothkopf has a tendency to generalize.
Yet the tendency is to generalize and suppose that the information is similar in the two models.
This article reflects both uses, with a tendency to insert "generalized" in logical contexts, and drop it in linguistic contexts.
Fujiwara (2007) reported that altruistic behavior had a tendency to protect generalized anxiety disorder, but was harmful for major depression (MD).
Remember that human mind has a tendency to over-generalize, and even common sense can sometimes have fallacy in it.
Factors such as response bias and social desirability response tendencies make it difficult to generalize the findings.
