The Science Behind: Our Brain’s Negative Bias

By | Thrive Global Studios | thriveglobal.com

Neuroscience tells us our brains have a negative bias. We’re wired to focus on threats to our survival, and we react more strongly to stimuli that stir up negative feelings. This is in part due to our survival instincts and an innate evolutionary need to register negative memories in order to avoid them in the future. When our brain perceives a threat, it goes into alarm mode, and then returns to its usual baseline after the stressful event passes. 

But we can also find ourselves stuck in this alarm mode, leading us to operate from a place of fear instead of possibility.

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