Negative events feel more psychologically intense than positive ones, thanks to a cognitive tendency called the negativity bias. That’s true even when events are of equal weight.

Negativity bias exists for evolutionary reasons and is hard-wired into our brain chemistry. But understanding why these thought patterns exist doesn’t mean we have to let them rule our minds ...

How’s your week going? If you’re like us, there’s probably been some bright spots — the weather! Longer days! — and maybe some things that are, well, the complete opposite. (News cycle, we’re looking ...

it can evolve into confirmation bias, where you selectively notice things that reinforce negative beliefs about your partner while ignoring evidence to the contrary. For example, if you believe ...

Take, for example, the studies done by John ... Having the built-in brain apparatus supersensitive to negativity means that the same bad-news bias also is at work in every sphere of our lives ...

To understand why it works, it’s first important to know that humans have a negativity bias, meaning they’re more likely to put greater weight and focus on negative things than positive ones.

Though Yoon has not studied these kinds of activities herself, fostering other positive emotions and thoughts may also help people reduce their negativity bias. For example, gratitude and ...

The self-serving bias is a distorted view that protects your ego. Examples include taking credit for an accomplishment you had nothing to do with, discounting negative or constructive feedback ...

Humans, it turns out, have what social psychologists call a “negativity bias”: We tend to pay more attention to bad-seeming information than good-seeming information. That could be a root ...

Negativity bias is more likely to motivate our behavior. In the wake of October 7, the entire Jewish people has felt the grip of negativity bias. It is hard not to. We are alert. We are afraid.