Negativity Bias And Paper Tigers Analysis

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Rick Hanson, psychologist, best-selling author, and summa cumlaude of UCLA, wrote ”Negativity Bias and Paper Tigers” on October 3, 2010 in the Huffington Post. The article focuses on negativity biases and how to recognize negative thinking. He states that the brain is constantly looking for bad news. And that when the brain registers bad news that is what it focuses on, but, when it registers good news, it's a fleeting thought. The brain is like acrylic paint for bad news, but watercolor paint for good news. Acrylic is hard to get off skin, but watercolor washes right off. The reference to the paper tiger he states is that there are two kinds of mistakes in evolution. The first is when someone thinks there is a tiger in the bushes, but there

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