A negative bias is the habit of noticing bad things more than good. A strong negative bias.
It is built in rather than learnt, since an ancestor who ignored a threat did not become an ancestor. A negative bias is why one criticism outweighs ten compliments in anybody's memory.
1nounnegative biasThe habit of noticing bad things more than good.
“A negative bias made every review feel worse than it read.”
negative bias is a bias.
Practised in Mental Health & Wellbeing