Category: N

Represent the propensity in Fredrickson’s broaden-and-build model for positive emotions to evoke a wide range of behavioral options.  

A type of social support in which the receiver perceives no criticism or judgment from the giver.  

A form of meditation like mindfulness meditation in which attention is kept broader along a continuum of stimuli.  

A problematic eating pattern often leading to weight gain in which a person eats very little in the morning but overeats at night.  

A proposed set of predictable interlocking negative events associated with neuroticism.  

One person directs a hostile, angry, or accusatory remark toward the other, which prompts a negative response in kind from the targeted person, leading to rounds of verbal attacks and counterattacks.  

A homeostatic mechanism for damping down responses.  

A tendency among depressed people in Beck’s model of depression to view the self, the world, and the future in a negative light.  

Unpleasant emotions such as sadness, anger, fear, and anxiety.  

Diseases that cannot be passed to another individual through casual contact.