Some people expected that there would be a relationship, either positive or negative, between their health and the occurrence of the eclipse.

A later study showed that people in close yet negative relationships are more likely to get heart disease.

They found no studies that documented a negative relationship between financial and environmental performance.

However, there is a negative relationship between age and intrinsic religious motivation.

If the prediction is correct then a negative relationship should be observed.

The assumption of a negative relationship is reasonable and intuitive.

In turn, this can lead to a negative relationship between the parent and child.

Yes, I suppose you could say there is a negative relationship.

Unless there was something in the child's background that would make it a positive or negative relationship, we just didn't ask.

He found only a weak negative relationship between the two variables.