Negativity Bias, Negativity Dominance, and Contagion

By P. Rozin, Edward B. Royzman. 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Temporal Distance and Moral Concerns: Future Morally Questionable Behavior is Perceived as More Wrong and Evokes Stronger Prosocial Intentions (2009, background): “Further, the finding that people reacted more negatively to distant-future morally questionable actions suggests that the observed temporal distance effect is unlikely to be explained in terms of ‘‘negativity bias’’ (see e.g., Rozin & Royzman, 2001).”
Consumer perceptions and purchase behavior toward imperfect fruits and vegetables in an immersive virtual reality grocery store (2019, positive): “The negativity bias is particularly well manifested in the domain of contagion and the law of contagion, according to which when entities get in contact, between them passes some "essence", which leaves a permanent trace (Rozin and Royzman.”
Sentiment Analysis: An Overview from Linguistics (2016, neutral): “Socher et al. (2013) labeled not documents or sentences but phrases, and their analysis in a parse tree.”
The forest and the trees: Examining the association of self-compassion and its positive and negative components with psychological functioning (2018, background): “Because of the brain’s negativity bias and the tendency for negative events to be more potent than positive events (Rozin & Royzman, 2001), we expected that reduced negative self-responding would have a stronger association with self-evaluations and negative emotions than the presence of positive…”
Sensemaking and emotion in organizations (2013, background): “…more attention to negative than positive events, as evidenced in streams of work identifying patterns of ‘‘bad is stronger than good’’ (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer, & Vohs, 2001; Labianca & Brass, 2006), negativity bias (Rozin & Royzman, 2001) and loss aversion (Tversky & Kahneman, 1992).”
Positive and negative word of mouth (WOM) are not necessarily opposites: A reappraisal using the dual factor theory (2020, background): “This negativity bias implies that individuals tend to value positive information less than negative information (Rozin and Royzman, 2001).”
Positive psychotherapy: A strength-based approach (2015, background): “The human mind defaults towards negativity such that it responds more strongly to negatives than to positives (Rozin & Royzman, 2001).”
Positive psychology: Past, present, and (possible) future (2006, background): “Indeed, the negative has a pervasive and immediate allure (Rozin & Royzman, 2001), and it is this that has shaped the questions of psychological inquiry typically to become those of ‘‘What is broken?’’”
Influence Maximization in Social Networks When Negative Opinions May Emerge and Propagate (2011, methodology): “The work was done when all authors were working at or visiting Microsoft Research Asia.”