This focus on the negative matters for individual families, too.
You also have to focus on taking a negative, a failure, and turning it around, making it into a positive.
With this filter, we focus exclusively and magnify negative aspects of something while filtering out all the positive aspects of a situation.
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In 2003 she coined the term "the positivity effect, " a phenomenon that describes how people focus more on positive than negative information in old age.
With the UK economy and economies across Europe seeing weak or negative economic growth, Primark's focus on cheap clothing has proved to be popular among cash-strapped consumers.
Does your culture focus more on positive outcomes instead of negative outcomes?
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And his untainted-by-negative-experience eyes are much more likely to focus on how to do something he envisions than on all the reasons it might not work.
Rather than abandoning the new sources of energy, efforts should focus on finding ways to reduce the negative impact of fracking and on continuing the push for alternative energy.
In this negative real interest rate environment, it is best to focus on assets that will stand to benefit, such as dividend paying large cap equities.
When the researchers reminded the older cohort to focus on accuracy, they paid more attention to the negative options.
In other words, an area of focus offers all the advantages of a goal without the negative side effects.
Another sector very much in focus Wednesday was defense, with most names trading in negative territory including a 4.7% drop for Northrop Grumman and a 4.6% fall for Lockheed Martin.
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Earnings are also a focus so far today as both Wal-Mart (positive) and Hewlett-Packard (negative) results have crossed the tape.
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