Not all emotions are created equal: the negativity bias in social-emotional development.

By Amrisha Vaish, T. Grossmann, A. Woodward. Psychological bulletin, 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The Emergence and Stability of the Attentional Bias to Fearful Faces in Infancy (2013, background): “Vaish et al. (2008) even argued for the existence of a “positivity bias” during the first six months as there are findings of longer looking times to happy than fearful expressions in newborns (Farroni, Menon, Rigato, & Johnson, 2007) and happy compared to angry expressions in 4- to 6-month- ld…”
• Three-month-olds show a negativity bias in their social evaluations. (2010, background): “Due to the theorized adaptive value of biasing negative social information (Cacioppo, Gardner & Berntson, 1997; Vaish et al., 2008), it would be telling to find evidence for a negativity bias in very young infants.”
• To Provide or Protect: Motivational Bases of Political Liberalism and Conservatism (2009, background): “Temperament may provide a unique starting point for some, as self-regulation research on infant anxiety and reactivity suggests (see, eg, Vaish, Grossmann, & Woodward, 2008 ).”