Sentence examples for threatening interpretations from inspiring English sources

Concerning the secondary outcomes, the OVK program is expected to decrease anxiety, since the program contains cognitive and behavioural strategies that are hypothesized to be effective not only for depression, but also for anxiety (e.g., to recognize and challenge threatening interpretations of neutral events, to employ relaxation strategies [ 23]).

Specifically, we sought to determine: (a) whether it was possible to train healthier (defined as more benign/less threatening) interpretations regarding the significance of intrusive thoughts; and (b) whether there was a link between modifying negative interpretations and subsequent emotional vulnerability to an OC stressor.

Individuals high in the ICT belief domain were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: (a) a positive (n=38) condition in which scenarios about intrusive thoughts were repeatedly paired with benign interpretations; or (b) a control (n=39) condition in which scenarios about intrusive thoughts were paired with 50% benign and 50% threatening interpretations.

In a related study, ambiguous sentences were presented to individuals with GAD and non-clinical controls and in a later recognition test those with GAD endorsed more threatening interpretations than controls (Eysenck et al., 1991).

Thus when thinking about an uncertain future event, worry-prone individuals tend to make relatively threatening interpretations and direct their attention to potential negative outcomes, whereas others are likely to interpret the same situation in a more benign manner and be less likely to attend to negative outcomes.

The aforementioned study by Muris et al. (in press) further suggests that one should especially focus on the high anxious parents and employ some kind of cognitive intervention to teach them to make less threatening interpretations and to provide their children with more positive information about ambiguous stimuli and situations (see Lester et al. 2009).

The presence of such a social bias threatens the interpretation of citations as objectively awarded esteem, which is the justification for using citation-based measures as universal proxies of quality and success.

On such a controversial issue, we would not want the agency to act the way it did during the Obama Administration, threatening to enforce an interpretation of federal law without considering comments from the public.

Mr. Vanska, renowned for his Sibelius interpretations, had been threatening for months to resign if the Carnegie concerts — two programs of Sibelius — were lost, saying that they held special meaning for him.

Everyone seemed to be grasping for a definition of what kind of language may be clearly seen as threatening, either through intent or interpretation.

More important, there's a way in which his blanket interpretation threatens to extinguish "Pale Fire," stamping out the oxygen of elusiveness that fuels a reader's desire to return to a complex text.