are you confident or insecure in a difficult situation
do you react positively or negatively
the answer may depend in part on whom you are around
a study found that the negative thinking can be contagious in some cases
for example the researchers studied 103 college roommates
they measured each roommates' tendency towards negative thinking
it was found that thinking patterns can be contagious
students with a negative thinking roommate became more depressd themselves
and students with more positive thinking roommates were more likely to become more positive as well