negativity effect

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Psychological tendency to focus on negative information

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Mike CarruthersSomething You Should Know · SYSK TRENDING - How the Negativity Effect Rules Us · 2:47 · yesterday
…You've probably heard of something called negativity bias or the negativity effect, which is basically that we tend to pay attention to and are more motivated by negative things than by positive things.…
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Mike CarruthersSomething You Should Know · SYSK TRENDING - How the Negativity Effect Rules Us · 0:42 · yesterday
…It's called the negativity effect, our tendency to give bad experiences, bad news, and criticism more weight than equally positive things.…
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