“As a result, we are wired for a “negativity bias”—a tendency to react to negative stimuli more intensely than positive experiences. This is true even when we don’t face the same life-threatening scenarios. Our life-threatening situations come in the form… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
“our tendency to react to negative stimuli more intensely than positive. Negative stimuli produce more neural activity than do equally intense (e.g., loud, bright) positive ones.” — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image