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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress is a 2018 book written by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker.It argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have brought progress, and that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness have tended to rise worldwide.
The term Social Information Processing Theory was originally titled by Salancik and Pfeffer in 1978. [4] They stated that individual perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors are shaped by information cues, such as values, work requirements, and expectations from the social environment, beyond the influence of individual dispositions and traits. [5]
The negativity bias, [1] also known as the negativity effect, is a cognitive bias that, even when positive or neutral things of equal intensity occur, things of a more negative nature (e.g. unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than neutral or positive things.
Born into the dawn of the HIV/AIDS crisis, the millennials of the LGBTQ community grew up with television broadcasts about death, police harassment and protests in the background.
Michael Whatley, chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), said Sunday that his party will roll out an “overwhelmingly positive” vision for America at the convention in a few weeks.
Nearly half of the Illinois Senator's stories were positive (46%), vs. just 8% that were negative. But both Clinton and Edwards ended up with more negative than positive coverage overall. So while coverage for Democrats overall was a bit more positive than negative, that was almost all due to extremely favorable coverage for Obama." [193]
NEW ORLEANS – The phrase Tom Brady repeated to describe his first season as FOX’s No. 1 game analyst: learning curve. “I understand I’m a long ways from being a finished product as a ...
In other cases (e.g. 80% positive reception), we can use the more tame terms "generally positive" or just "positive". "Rave" should never be used, as it is informal and lacks concrete definition. Similarly, "universal" shouldn't be used either unless something was REALLY, literally universally hailed, like the invention of sliced bread.