Sentences with phrase «mood than a negative»

The effects are stronger when the participants are in a positive mood than a negative mood.

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Overall, the negative - mood group was better at detecting deception than the neutral or positive groups, correctly identifying the liars more often,» Newman writes of some of the relevant research.

The fact that there's a double negative in there meant that anything other than three points would likely have Max ripping off his overcoat and, as one could surmise, in a pretty grumpy mood.

When sleeping is not made a priority, parents typically experience: · Exhaustion · Irritability · Decreased productivity · A suffering quality of life · A negative mood · Declining physical health · Lack of focus With poor sleep and an increased irritable mood, our problems feel bigger than they really are and stress can become intensified.

Mothers who breastfeed have been found to report lower levels of perceived stress and negative mood, higher levels of maternal attachment, and tend to perceive their infants more positively than mothers who formula - feed.9, 19 - 21 There is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding mothers may also spend more time in emotional care and be more sensitive to infant emotional distress cues than bottle - feeding mothers.22, 23 Relatedly, a small fMRI study of 17 mothers in the first postpartum month, found that breastfeeding mothers showed greater activation in brain areas involved in empathy and bonding than formula - feeding mothers when listening to their own infant's cry.24 These brain areas included the superior frontal gyrus, insula, precuneus, striatum and amygdala.

Those that received a dose of sugar water beforehand then flew to a feeder about four times quicker than those that didn't, suggesting that sweet food can increase positive emotions and improve a negative mood in bees — just as it does in humans.

Previous research in North Carolina, where the growth of hog farms has been so staggering in the last 25 years that now there are more hogs than people, found that farm odor caused stress and negative mood states in neighboring residents, according to a 2009 study in the American Journal of Public Health.

Now, this is a bit of a generalization, but across a number of studies, we know that women generally smoked to regulate negative mood and stress, more so than men.

But participants who had been put in a negative mood spent significantly more time than others browsing the profiles of people who had been rated as unsuccessful and unattractive.

As computer screens and smartphones can have an added negative effect, keep all electronics out of the bedroom and rather than playing on one of these gadgets, relax yourself to sleep with a mindful meditation, which in itself has been shown to improve mood and outlook.

Thus, a disrupted sleep seems to have a stronger effect on dampening positive moods than it does on increasing negative emotions.

In fact, the first symptom I get of a gut bacterial imbalance is my mood starts to get negative (without a reason) and stress gets to me more than usual.

In a research article titled «Prosocial Behavior Helps Mitigate the Negative Effects of Stress in Everyday Life,» participants who engaged in «other - focused» behavior, such as holding a door, asking someone if they needed help, and lending a hand, reported better moods and lower daily stress levels than those who didn't engage in helping behavior.

Couples fall into dysfunctional patterns that breed chronic negative moods for both, and some of these negative patterns have been identified as much worse than others.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

Analyses of our own data (Hipwell et al. 2002) have shown that girls» conduct problems and depressed mood are stronger predictors of negative parenting practices than vice versa between ages 7 — 12 years.

Figure 9.15 shows that positive behaviour was more likely to be displayed during the interview than negative behaviour, and that where negative mood was in evidence, this was generally confined to a small number of brief displays.

Perhaps some mothers report on a situational depression based on the circumstances and setting, rather than a longer - lasting negative mood state.