Negativity bias

Bad sticks. Good slides off. One rude comment outweighs five kind ones, and your brain treats that as a feature, not a bug.

Definition

The tendency for negative events, emotions, or information to have a stronger effect on psychological state and memory than equally intense positive events.

Step 1

Predict first

In one or two sentences, what do you think this concept means? Wrong is fine; the small struggle is what makes the answer stick.