Scientific Definition
Bad lands harder than good in the brain.
Plain-English Definition
Bad lands harder than good in the brain.
Feynman Explanation
One bad review erases ten good ones in your head.
Core Principle
Bad lands harder than good in the brain.
Mechanisms
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Bad lands harder than good in the brain.
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
One bad review erases ten good ones in your head.
Examples
- Five positive reviews don't offset one negative.
- Performance review design and culture decisions.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Symmetric celebration of wins. Multiple-source positive feedback.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Symmetric celebration of wins. Multiple-source positive feedback.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
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Threats to identity activate strong defensive responses.
Subjective feeling of not deserving one's success.
Brain region tracking internal state and gut feeling.
Loss processed more intensely than equivalent gain.
Most biases are efficient heuristics misapplied.
Brain weights existing state heavily.
Cumulative physiological wear from chronic stress.
Emotional override of rational processing.
Brain region tracking conflict, error, and effort.
We treat AI as more humanlike than it is.