Negative Bias And Personalizing Problems

The tendency to automatically give more weightage, attention and meaning to the negative aspects of any event or situation is called Negative Bias.

A 2008 study by the American Psychological Association (APA) found that we tend to react towards or be curious about the ...

As a species we have an in-built ‘negativity bias': a propensity to remember, cling to, and learn from negative experiences more readily than positive ones, according to neurology research.

It made sense that our earliest ancestors should be risk averse, but nowadays t...

It's present when we tend to overestimate the length or intensity of happiness that major events will create. The Impact Bias is one example of affective forecasting, which is a social psychology phenomenon that refers to our generally terrible ability as humans to predict our future emoti...