Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2024/Negativity bias

Initial suggestions
Thanks for tackling this topic. Some initial suggestions: Let me know if I can do anything else as you go along. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:50, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Check out other related chapters and see how you can build on, link to, and integrate with that work:
 * Category:Motivation and emotion/Book/Bias
 * Category:Motivation and emotion/Book/Negative emotion
 * What psychological theories can help to understand? What is the main research in this area?

Hi there, I enjoyed your topic selection. A theory you can talk to about to help overcome negativity bias is Neuroplasticity. I hope the link below can help with that. Price, R. B., & Duman, R. (2020). Neuroplasticity in cognitive and psychological mechanisms of depression: an integrative model. Molecular psychiatry, 25(3), 530-543. --Fatima2617 (discuss • contribs) 22:48, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

In your book chapter, you explore the potential causes of negativity bias. While you provide a good overview of different theories, perhaps you should seek to examine evolutionary explanations for why humans have a negativity bias. In other words, were there adaptive reasons in the ancestral past for why humans were biased to interpret phenomena through a negative lens or were more sensitive to negative events? Did this bias confer a survival benefit? Here's a study that can help: Lazarus, J. (2021). Negativity bias: An evolutionary hypothesis and an empirical programme. Learning and Motivation, 75, 101731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2021.101731 --MT200107 (discuss • contribs) 09:26, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:14, 23 September 2023 (UTC)