Criticisms often have a greater impact than compliments, and bad news frequently draws more attention than good. The reason for this is that negative events have a greater impact on our brains than positive ones. Psychologists refer to this as the negative bias also called the negativity bias , and it can have a powerful effect on your behavior, your decisions, and even your relationships.
The negative bias is our tendency not only to register negative stimuli more readily but also to dwell on these events. Also known as positive-negative asymmetry, this negativity bias means that we feel the sting of a rebuke more powerfully than we feel the joy of praise. This psychological phenomenon explains why bad first impressions can be so difficult to overcome and why past traumas can have such long lingering effects.
In almost any interaction, we are more likely to notice negative things and later remember them more vividly. For example, you might be having a great day at work when a coworker makes an offhand comment that you find irritating.
You then find yourself stewing over his words for the rest of the workday. When you get home from work and someone asks you how your day was, you reply that it was terrible—even though it was overall quite good despite that one negative incident. This bias toward the negative leads you to pay much more attention to the bad things that happen, making them seem much more important than they really are.
Research has shown that across a wide array of psychological events, people tend to focus more on the negative as they try to make sense of the world. Psychological research suggests that the negative bias influences motivation to complete a task. People have less motivation when an incentive is framed as a means to gain something than when the same incentive will help them avoid the loss of something. This can play a role in your motivation to pursue a goal.
Rather than focusing on what you will gain if you keep working toward something, you're more likely to dwell on what you might have to give up in order to achieve that goal. Additionally, studies have shown that negative news is more likely to be perceived as truthful. Since negative information draws greater attention, it also may be seen as having greater validity. This might be why bad news seems to garner more attention. Differences in negativity bias have also been linked to political ideology.
Some research suggests that conservatives may have stronger psychological responses to negative information than liberals. Some evidence, for example, has found that people who consider themselves politically conservative are more likely to rate ambiguous stimuli as threatening. Such differences in the negativity bias might explain why some people are more likely to value things such as tradition and security while others are more open to embracing ambiguity and change.
The negative bias can have a variety of real-world effects on how people think and act. Do any of these situations and events seem familiar? Our tendency to pay more attention to bad things and overlook good things is likely a result of evolution. Earlier in human history, paying attention to bad, dangerous, and negative threats in the world was literally a matter of life and death. Those who were more attuned to danger and who paid more attention to the bad things around them were more likely to survive.
This meant they were also more likely to hand down the genes that made them more attentive to danger. The evolutionary perspective suggests that this tendency to dwell on the negative more than the positive is simply one way the brain tries to keep us safe. Research suggests that this negativity bias starts to emerge in infancy.
Very young infants tend to pay greater attention to positive facial expression and tone of voice, but this begins to shift as they near one year of age. Brain studies indicate that around this time, babies begin to experience greater brain responses to negative stimuli.
Every another day, you read the newspapers or scroll down on facebook to find out about the brutal crimes, the freaking accidents, the untimely demises, the deadly diseases, the uprooting poverty and many such incidents to affect you adversely for quite some time. It is good to be self-aware but yes, you may not always look beautiful when you see yourself in the mirror. Those elements are jealousy, comparison with others, pervert thoughts, materialistic addiction, self-harming thoughts and so on.
Interestingly, there is a sub-category in this aspect. And this category is negativity because of expectations. Always remember that expectations from people and of people, both infuses negativity. It is because sometimes the expectations are fulfilled and sometimes not.
If are not a victim of it yet, keep sailing the way you are. And if you have gone through it, not a problem either. The only thing is that you learned it the hard way. The good thing about these things happening to you is that it teaches you the best of life lessons, if you are ready to perceive it that way. The worst part…. When you cannot stop and change the wrong happenings, it leads to negativity. See, there are different kinds of people living on this planet. All are different and somewhere that is the cause of stability as well.
Or do we blame ourselves for continuing to feed into it? After being subjected to equal amounts of positive and negative information, many people have a tendency to only remember the negative. With this in mind, perhaps part of the problem is us.
Perhaps we are partially to blame, as we tend to only remember negative news since it affects us much more strongly than positive news. Locally speaking, we had a terrific year for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians in sports.
Our federal government has made some breakthroughs as well, as Canada now has its first gender-equal cabinet. India planted 50 million trees this year in order to help fight climate change and beat the world record set by Pakistan in — if only all wars were fought that way!
Clement Stone. But never let them be the limit of your success. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you. Bad habits are called 'bad' for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals.
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