Positive in sentence

3166 examples of Positive in a sentence

We've asked, well, maybe older people are just trying to put a positive spin on an otherwise depressing existence.

And using this intense study of individuals, we find that it's not one particular generation that's doing better than the others, but the same individuals over time come to report relatively greater positive experience.

In our study, they are more positive.

And all things being equal, older people direct their cognitive resources, like attention and memory, to positive information more than negative.

If we show older, middle-aged, younger people images, like the ones you see on the screen, and we later ask them to recall all the images that they can, older people, but not younger people, remember more positive images than negative images.

We've said, well, maybe older people report more positive emotions because they're cognitively impaired.

We've said, could it be that positive emotions are simply easier to process than negative emotions, and so you switch to the positive emotions?

And under conditions where it really matters, older people do process the negative information just as well as the positive information.

And if there's a paradox of aging, it's that recognizing that we won't live forever changes our perspective on life in positive ways.

But here's the thing: traditionally, in the academic study of the methods of behaviorism, there have been comparisons of positive and negative stimuli.

In this setting, a commercial setting, there's a new kind of difference that has kind of evaded the academic world for a while, and that difference is that whether positive stimuli are more effective than negative ones in different circumstances, the negative ones are cheaper.

And using a method called functional MRI, we were able to identify regions in the brain that were responding to positive information.

I took the test and the result showed I was positive.

The nurse said to me, "Why should you people bcome pregnant when you know you are HIV positive?

Why are you pregnant when you are living positive?"

Because I am HIV positive.

There are many reasons for these positive developments, but one of the most remarkable is in the increase in the number of people around the world on anti-retroviral therapy, the medicines they need to keep their HIV in check.

Let me give you just one example of the way a legal environment can make a positive difference.

I think, at the end of these four days, that you'll come to conclude that the arc of history is a positive one, and it's towards openness.

All right, what we're just feeling there is plus-one emotional resilience, which means you have the ability to provoke powerful, positive emotions like curiosity or love, which we feel looking at baby animals, when you need them most.

If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion over the course of an hour, a day, a week, you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

And this is called the three-to-one positive emotion ratio.

If you are regularly achieving the three-to-one positive emotion ratio, if you are never sitting still for more than an hour at a time, if you are reaching out to one person you care about every single day, if you are tackling tiny goals to boost your willpower, you will live 10 years longer than everyone else, and here's where that math I showed you earlier comes in.

Let me give you a couple of examples of how this works in a positive way.

For example, very early on in the treatment, things are negative, the feedback, before things become positive.

A tabulation of positive and negative emotion words in news stories has shown that during the decades in which humanity has gotten healthier, wealthier, wiser, safer and happier, the "New York Times" has become increasingly morose and the world's broadcasts too have gotten steadily glummer.

So that evening, I just reached out on Facebook and asked a few of them, and by morning the response had been so overwhelming and so positive, I knew we had to give it a go.

They want positive actions they can engage in, and in their bones, they know it's time to take personal responsibility and invest in more kindness to each other and to the environment.

The stories that we want to know, and the stories that do exist about positive tales.

But he started the country on a path of a positive cycle.

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