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What evolution shows about the negativity bias

Paying attention to your surroundings is a typical human behavior exhibiting the will to survive. Being wary about the environment that you are in will make you more likely to survive and pass on your genes.

However, in the current era having negativity bias actually inhibits us to think rationally and make the right decisions.

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We make decisions based on the information that we have. However, we tend to be more reliant on the negative more than the positive. This causes two outcomes:

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