Your brain is wired for negative thoughts. Here's how to change it.

Theres a reason that insults stick with us longer than compliments and it may serve an evolutionary purpose. Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss any new videos: http://bit.ly/1fUWHyY Is the glass half full or half empty? Turns out, the way that you present a situation to people can really change how they feel about it our brains tend to fixate on the negative aspects over the positive ones.Alison Ledgerwood, a UC Davis professor of psychology, studies how people tend to get stuck in particular ways of thinking and what they can do to get unstuck. Learn more about Alisons research and how negative frames affect our opinions of politicians and policies: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/why-negative-campaigning-works-and-how-fight-it The research highlighted in this video was supported in part by the National Science Foundation. Why the teenage brain has an evolutionary advantage: https://youtu.be/P629TojpvDU 00:00 Intro00:37 Negative and positive frames1:54 Negatives really stick2:05 Why is that?2:37 Can we shift our way of thinking?------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1fUWHyYFig. 1 explores new ideas and research out of the University of California ranging from science, technology, art and humanities. Get inside the mind of a researcher. Find more research at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/fig1#insults #psychology #opinions