Sentence examples for threat tendency from inspiring English sources

When it feels like something always or never happens, this is just your brain's natural threat tendency inflating the perceived frequency or severity of an event.

Next the patients took standardized psychological tests to measure their sensitivity to threat and their tendency to become anxious.

The results of several previous studies have indicated that the interaction between the overestimation of threat and the tendency to experience disgust increases the fear of contamination.

The integrity of genetic information is under constant threat by the tendency of DNA to engage in chemical reactions in its cellular environment.

Specifically, negative affective states such as anxiety are associated with increased expectation of punishment, greater attention to potential threats, and a tendency to interpret ambiguous stimuli as if they were threats (i.e., a "glass-half-empty" or pessimistic bias) [ 10, 11].

There's another problem with declaring "wars" on threats to human well-being: a tendency to conflate the threat and the victim of the threat.

The presence of heavy metals in the environment is of major concern because of their toxicity, bio-accumulating tendency and threat to human and animal life (Igwe et al. 2005).

The objectives of this study are: i) to identify and analyse threats to water and electricity supplies, the threats being of high tendency to be realised during floods and socio-technical disasters; and ii) to review existing disaster action plans and subsequently develop a comprehensive one for water and electricity supplies and to be referred together with existing hospital DAPs.

Over the course of training, participants learn to attend to the valence of stimuli that predict the location of the probe to which they have to respond; therefore, the attend-threat training encourages a negative attentional bias, whereas the avoid-threat training encourages a tendency to avert attention from negative stimuli.

As if to prove her point, the commentator Burak Bekdil received a death threat after he satirised this tendency to supremacism.

All three claims are contestable.On the first, northern English voters are in the same boat; and people in remote parts of Scotland fear the SNP's centralising tendency is a threat to the local government that works best there.