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How to use the word normative in a Sentence?

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It is likely that the experience of … shyness in response to a speech task is a relatively common, normative experience for children at this age, for a smaller group of temperamentally shy children, however, being the center of attention may be stressful across time and various contexts.

Kristie Poole

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most fertile idea of the Stoics, in my view, is their analysis of emotions as containing evaluative thoughts about what is most important for one’s well-being. That view I find basically correct, though in need of a lot of further work. Their normative analysis of the emotions seems wrong to me, namely that we should get rid of them all, but they are pretty on target in their critique of anger.

Martha Nussbaum

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

The advice that I would give to parents is that if they are worrying about their child having some sleep problems, they should consult a specialist, in many cases, these parental worries are indeed part of a normative developmental stage( such as, for example, their child waking up a few times during the night, or having problems falling asleep) but still it would be beneficial to know that, and parents could feel more relaxed ; but in other cases, these are indeed part of a developmental problem.

Jenny Radesky

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In many cases, these parental worries are indeed part of a normative developmental stage( such as, for example, their child waking up a few times during the night, or having problems falling asleep) but still it would be beneficial to know that, and parents could feel more relaxed ; but in other cases, these are indeed part of a developmental problem.

Jenny Radesky

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If this trend continues until Labor Day, Chicago might be on its way to a year with 500 or fewer homicides, which is closer to the normative number of murders in recent history, beginning in 2004 and factoring out 2016 and 2017 as aberrations.

Arthur Lurigio

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Advertising is thought to make product use seem more normative and acceptable, and to convey the impression that positive outcomes like having fun or feeling attractive will result from use, it’s possible, then, that exposure to e-cigarette ads promote thoughts that use is more prevalent and that using the product will result in positive outcomes.

William Shadel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's an incredibly ambitious project in which they put a lot of theory on normative influence to a road test.

Dave Nussbaum

Found on CNN
8 years ago

One size fits all wasn't fair, non-normative desires make people feel like freaks or alone.

Dan Savage

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It makes people with normative desires feel panicked the way it used to those with other desires.

Dan Savage

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Part of why I feel so passionately about this is because I want this to become normative.

Vicki Rox

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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