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Negativity Bias: Why We Fixate on the Bad—and How to Overcome It

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You’re out on a walk. The sun is out, the birds are chirping, and a pleasant, hazy view is on the horizon. Until, wait a second—is that a piece of trash? It’s a speck of ick amidst a vista of pleasantness, all you’d have to do to ignore it is shift your gaze up a bit. But you likely actually can’t help but focus on that piece of trash for a biological reason called the “negativity bias.” It’s the same reason we’ll tend to gripe about a frustrati…

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