MCQ Practice Single Best Answer Topic: Happiness

Q What is the term for the cognitive bias where people tend to overestimate the impact of negative events on their happiness and underestimate the impact of positive events?

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Happiness

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A Optimism bias ✔ ✖
B Pessimism bias ✔ ✖
C Negativity bias ✔ ✖
D Positivity bias ✔ ✖

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Negativity bias is the cognitive bias in which people tend to overestimate the impact of negative events on their happiness while underestimating the impact of positive events. This bias can lead to a tendency to focus on and remember negative experiences more vividly.

Q What is the term for the cognitive bias where people tend to overestimate the impact of negative events on their happiness and underestimate the impact of positive events?

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