All 19 Uses of

negative
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell

On a technical level, she was measuring the amount of positive and negative emotion, because one of Gottman's findings is that for a marriage to survive, the ratio of positive to negative emotion in a given encounter has to be at least five to one.
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negative = bad or harmful

On a technical level, she was measuring the amount of positive and negative emotion, because one of Gottman's findings is that for a marriage to survive, the ratio of positive to negative emotion in a given encounter has to be at least five to one.
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His findings is that for a marriage to survive, the ratio of positive to negative emotion in a given encounter has to be at least five to one.
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Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative.
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Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative.
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In the negative sentiment override state, people draw lasting conclusions about each other.
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In negative sentiment override, I say, 'To hell with you, I'm not getting a chance to finish either.'
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What he does, he explains, is track the ups and downs of a couple's level of positive and negative emotion, and he's found that it doesn't take very long to figure out which way the line on the graph is going.
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But once they start going down, toward negative emotion, ninety-four percent will continue going down.
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In my head, I was frantically trying to determine the ratios of positive emotion to negative emotion.
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I knew from Susan and Bill that a lot of what looked positive was actually negative.
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I was overwhelmed by the task of counting negativity, because everywhere I looked, I saw negative emotions.
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negativity = harmful things

I was overwhelmed by the task of counting negativity, because everywhere I looked, I saw negative emotions.
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negative = bad or harmful

The big gender difference with negative emotions is that women are more critical, and men are more likely to stonewall.
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They think they are more forthcoming than they actually are, or more negative than they actually are.
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negative = critical

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement—and the number of items they got right was cut in half.
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negative = bad or harmful

But when we listened closely to their interaction and measured the ratio of positive to negative emotions, we got a different story.
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"Had The MTM been a mere pilot, such overwhelmingly negative comments would have buried it," Sally Bedell [Smith] writes in her biography of Silverman, Up the Tube.
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negative = critical

Definitions:

(1) (negative as in: had a negative effect)
bad or harmful
(2) (negative as in: negative feedback from customers)
to express criticism or disagreement, or (especially when talking over a radio or in a military setting) to say "no"
(3) (negative as in: a negative attitude)
pessimistic (emphasizing bad things) or disagreeable
(4) (negative as in: The test came back negative.)
did not find a condition or substance to be present
(5) (negative as in: a negative number)
less than zero
(6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

See a comprehensive dictionary for less common meanings of negative including some in the fields of electricity, physics, chemistry, medicine, photography, and grammar. Note that most non-technical senses of negative indicate that something is bad or lacking.