A negative stroke is one experienced as painful. If your neighbor had responded to your greetings by frowning at you instead of smiling, he would have given you a negative non – verbal stroke.

1. Negative strokes
Transactional Analysis

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Manu Melwin Joy
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3. Negative strokes
• A negative stroke is one
experienced as painful.
• If your neighbor had
responded to your
greetings by frowning at
you instead of smiling,
he would have given
you a negative non –
verbal stroke.

4. Negative strokes
• He could have given you a
more intense non verbal
by punching your in the
eye.
• To deal you a negative
verbal stroke, he might
have responded to you
cheerful “ Nice day” with
“huh” or even “ it was
until you come along”.

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