October 9, 2020
Negativity Bias
During times of transition it pays to be aware of the negativity bias. This bias causes us to give more emotional weight to something negative than to something good, even if rationally they would be equal. Like all cognitive biases knowing about it won’t change it. Just like optical illusions they work even when you know about it.
Since we can’t control the negativity bias directly, we have to change the inputs instead.
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