Negativity Bias

Examples

• A person receives 10 positive comments and 1 criticism in a performance review, but obsesses over the single negative point and ignores the praise.
• People typically overweight potential losses compared to equivalent gains, often requiring potential gains to be twice as large as potential losses to make a risk seem worthwhile.
• Speakers tend to remember the few audience members who looked bored or disapproving rather than the majority who appeared engaged and interested.

All cognitive biases

• Confirmation Bias
• Availability Heuristic
• Dunning-Kruger Effect
• Anchoring Bias
• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Negativity Bias
• Hindsight Bias
• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• In-Group Bias
• Optimism Bias
• Framing Effect
• Self-Serving Bias
• Halo Effect
• Recency Bias
• Survivorship Bias
• Implicit Bias