Not All Emotions Are Created Equal: The Negativity Bias in Social-Emotional Development

There is ample empirical evidence for an asymmetry in the way that adults use positive versus negative information to make sense of their world; specifically, across an array of psychological situations and tasks, adults display a negativity bias, or the propensity to attend to, learn from, and use...

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Published in:	Psychological bulletin 2008-05, Vol.134 (3), p.383-403
Main Authors:	Vaish, Amrisha, Grossmann, Tobias, Woodward, Amanda
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Adaptive behavior Adults Affect Age Differences Bias Biological and medical sciences Child Development Cognition Cognition & reasoning Cognitive Development Concept Formation Developmental psychology Emotional Development Emotional Response Emotions Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Human Humans Infant Infants Information Negative Attitudes Negative information Negativism Newborn. Infant Older children Positivity bias Psychological Patterns Psychology Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Psychosocial Development Response Bias Self Social Behavior Social behaviour Social Cognition Social development Social Influences Social Perception Social psychology Social referencing Young Children
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