The human brain has what psychologists call a negativity bias, it gives more weight to potential threats than to neutral or positive information. This bias evolved to keep us alert to danger (lions, cliffs, rival tribes). So, our ancestors who could anticipate danger, even if they sometimes got it wrong,
were more likely to survive. Today, that same mechanism gets triggered by uncertainty, ambiguous social cues, social media, fear of failure, navigating
relationships, doing something new and so much more.
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