Judgments of salience may concern either negative or positive implications. In negative terms, a situation or feature that is more salient to an individual is one that he or she more strongly needs or wants to escape from or avoid. Salience for negative reasons can derive from a range of emphases-danger, boredom, lack of competence in the current activity, greater desirability of an alternative, and so on. It is obvious that a stimulus appraised as, say, dangerous is likely to have a stronger negative impact on subjective well-being than is the same stimulus when viewed as having no significance for the self. Although in general perceived level of danger tends to reflect the actual negativity of a stimulus, some differences between people in the personal salience of that stimulus can be expected.