What is the evolutionary reasoning behind negativity bias?
Negativity bias has evolutionary roots; our ancestors who paid more attention to threats were more likely to survive. This bias ensures that we encode negative events more thoroughly because missing a threat could be lethal, while missing an opportunity was simply suboptimal.
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