| In the negativistic state rules of all kinds are experienced as restrictions and therefore, during the moments when one is in the negativistic state, opposed. |
| Very often the failure to swallow and anomalous habits of excretion seem to be negativistic in their nature. |
| Furthermore, the plausibility of a negativistic personality orientation with chronic discontentment set in an oppositional and resentful posture may be worth considering. |
| Structural models revealed that aesthetic, moralistic and negativistic attitudes were the stronger predictors of support. |
| He was mute, negativistic, and assumed various uncomfortable and constrained attitudes. |
| It is perhaps the belief that psychology has emancipatory potential that distinguishes the approach of these critics from a purely negativistic one. |
