Navigating Negativity for Healthier Relationships

John Tierney (@johntierneynyc) is an award-winning science columnist for The New York Times, and he's the co-author of The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.

[Featured photo by Jamie Meggas]

• What is negativity bias, and why does even a small dose of it have the power to overwhelm even our greatest reserves of positivity?
• How can we psychologically overcome this innate negativity bias?
• How we can watch the news (especially during an election year) without succumbing to deep despair at the state of the world by consuming what John calls a low-bad diet.
• Why the worst person at your workplace has the power to passively drag the whole team down beyond the abilities of the best person to bring it up.
• The negative golden rule -- it's what you do not do unto others that really matters.
• And much more...

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