Sentences with phrase «strongly than positive»

It's vital to understand that, as one study found, negative social signals and experiences predict psychological behavior more strongly than positive ones.

It also retains negative experiences more strongly than positive ones.

Not exact matches

It has been a little stronger than the other currencies in the group, as international investors have been attracted to the currency by the prospect of strongly rising commodity prices and the positive interest rate differential.

Global Strategy Group found that Curran is «better known than her GOP rival and maintains strongly positive personal ratings,» and also that the Democrats have «advantages on key partisan metrics while Martins must contend with the extreme negativity surrounding the corruption connected to prominent Nassau County Republicans.»

The team discovered that the emotional aspects of religion and spirituality were more strongly associated with positive mental health than behavioral or cognitive aspects of religion and spirituality.

Those early results are very positive, and strongly indicate that the nanoparticles could be useful for assessing how effective a therapy is on a much shorter time scale than current treatments, which usually rely on observing the size of the tumor.

The study found that in a sample of 460 people aged between 22 and 35, people with more education, better physical endurance, above - average memory, and other «positive» traits seem to have more strongly - connected brains than people with «negative» traits such as smoking, aggressive behavior, or a history of drug use.

More than 80 percent of teachers and 87 percent of principals surveyed agreed or strongly agreed that the promotion standards had «focused the school's instructional efforts in positive ways.»

Graduates of the exemplary programs who became principals were significantly more likely than the comparison principals to hold positive beliefs about the principalship and feel more strongly committed to it.

Remember back to how grateful and positive you were 2 - 3 months ago when your account balance had probably risen strongly to a high value, but that was a lower value than it is right now.

@Matthew Marler (51)-- OHC since 1950, while subject to some uncertainty, is sufficiently characterized to know it's strongly positive, which excludes a more than minor role for internal contributions to the warming.

Other studies indicate that models with strongly positive low - cloud feedback are more consistent with observations than models with weakly positive or negative feedback (Qu et al. 2014, 2015b, Myers and Norris 2016).

It appears to me that the new «scientific evidence» is suggesting that water vapor feedback is not as strong as had been estimated by the models previously and that net cloud feedback may be neutral to slightly negative, rather than strongly positive, as predicted previously by the models.

Niche Modelling concludes from the Leviticus data that net total global radiative feedback from water vapor, etc. is negative, rather than strongly positive, as estimated by the models cited in IPCC AR4.

manacker December 19, 2012 at 8:00 pm said:» It appears to me that the new «scientific evidence» is suggesting that water vapor feedback is not as strong as had been estimated by the models previously and that net cloud feedback may be neutral to slightly negative, rather than strongly positive, as predicted previously by the models»

If there are multiverses that are in fact coupled — quantum bundles of universes, that sort of thing (which is the basis of my story, it being a bit boring to write about a world where the Lord of the Rings Universe really exists as a parallel Universe, only you can't get there from here or ever prove it — then perhaps we might one day be able to demonstrate this, but in the meantime the question is more science fiction or fantasy than something to believe or disbelieve in very strongly, with the usual rational default: Lack of belief pending positive evidence!

In fact, later in the book he argues for a long - term alpha value of about 3.0 W / m ^ 2 / °C, indicating a weak positive feedback, rather than a strongly negative one.

Trend increases by 0.159; except it's from really negative to slightly negative, rather than being from flat to strongly positive.

dude I don't think the observed reduction in relative humidity with rising temperature implies a negative water vapor feedback, just a less strongly positive water vapor feedback than has been otherwise postulated.

Actual physical observations have shown that net cloud feedback is very likely to be negative rather than strongly positive and that the net water vapor plus lapse rate feedback is around half of the amount estimated with assumed constant relative humidity.

If the feedbacks from higher carbon dioxide levels are strongly positive, then in past geological eras when CO2 levels were much higher than today there should have occurred the «runaway climate» that James Hansen fantasizes about.

As we both know, physical observations of CERES satellites since AR4 was published (Spencer + Braswell) have shown that the net cloud feedback over the tropics is strongly negative, rather than positive, as assumed by IPCC.

If these new findings can not be refuted, it appears that the net cloud feedback is very likely to be strongly negative rather than positive, as assumed by the IPCC models.

Notable among these are Wentz et al. (2007), who suggest that the IPCC has failed to allow for two - thirds of the cooling effect of evaporation in its evaluation of the water vapor - feedback; and Spencer (2007), who points out that the cloud - albedo feedback, regarded by the IPCC as second in magnitude only to the water - vapor feedback, should in fact be negative rather than strongly positive.

After the publication of AR4, a study by Spencer et al., using physical observations from CERES satellites over the tropics, showed that the net feedback from clouds is strongly negative, rather than positive, as assumed by the climate models.

Using the estimate of Wyant, this would point to a 2xCO2 climate sensitivity of 1.5 C (rather than 3.2 C, as estimated by IPCC using the strongly positive net feedback assumption for clouds).

But I also believe it is reasonable to conclude, based on all the recent data out there, that the net feedback from clouds (LW+SW) is very likely to be negative (rather than strongly positive, as assumed by all the models cited by IPCC), and that the 2xCO2 climate sensitivity is very likely to be below 1.5 C (probably closer to 1C).

People with the «short» version of the gene respond more strongly to positive and negative emotions than do people with the «long» version of the gene.

The first thing to realize is that people generally respond more strongly to negative events than positive ones.

Results show that (a) the quality of intergenerational relationships appears to be influenced by the structural circumstances of parents and adult children — especially as defined by divorced status, gender, and age; (b) the negative aspects of intergenerational relationships are more strongly associated with psychological distress of parents and adult children than are the positive aspects; and (c) the estimated effects of intergenerational relationships on distress levels sometimes depend on the structural circumstances of parents and children.

«The stronger association between adolescent outcomes and ties to nonresident mothers compared with ties to stepmothers stands in contrast to the results reported in prior research on resident mother families where close ties to resident stepfathers are more strongly associated with positive adolescent outcomes than ties to nonresident biological fathers (King, 2006; White & Gilbreth, 2001), suggesting important differences in the role of nonresident parents and stepparents by gender....

Previous studies have found a similar pattern of results, with parent scaffolding and positive parenting being more strongly associated with child externalizing problems than internalizing problems (Boonen et al. 2014; Hoffman et al. 2006; McCarty et al. 2005).

In Theraplay sessions, children are actively engaged in a friendly setting and encouraged to focus on the present rather than the past, while therapists and parents work to maintain a strongly positive attitude about the child's present and future prospects.