Positive language leads to positive wellbeing

Positive language leads to positive wellbeing.

No one likes to be given bad news, and a diagnosis of dementia is devastating. How wonderful it would be though if the bad news and negative language stopped at that point. If someone tells you day after day that you’re suffering, you end up believing it. It has a negative impact on your wellbeing. The same would happen if you were told day after day that you are stupid—you end up thinking ther...

Positive Mental Wellbeing in Adolescents 1 Positive mental wellbeing in Australian adolescents: Evaluating the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale

While there is increasing recognition of the need to go beyond measures of mental ill health, there is a relative dearth of validated tools for assessing mental wellbeing among adolescents. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) is a promising tool for use in this context, and this study evaluated its use in an Australian context. The WEBWBS was completed by 829 Western Australia...

What leads to positive change in teaching practice?

Encoding details: positive emotion leads to memory broadening.

In the current experiment we tested the hypothesis that unlike negative arousal, which leads to memory narrowing effects whereby an increase in memory for the central details is accompanied by a decrease in memory for the peripheral details, positive arousing events might lead to a memory broadening effect such that positive arousal would increase memory for both central and peripheral details....

Positive Feedback in Hierarchical Connectionist Models: Applications to Language Production

Recent connectionist models of the perception and production of words make use of positive feedback from later to earlier levels of processing. This paper focuses on production and identifies several specific effects of phoneme-tomorpheme feedback. In addition. I orgue that there is support for the use of this kind of feedback in production from experimental and naturalistic studies of slips of...