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Ask the people around you: is the world better or worse than it was fifty years ago? Most people answer “worse.” Yet almost all the available objective data points in the opposite direction. This paradox is not an accident: it is wired into our biology. A bias written into evolution The negativity bias is a universal tendency of the...

Do you clearly remember your first day at school? The exact taste of a dish your grandmother used to make? A precise conversation you had ten years ago? If you answer yes with confidence, there is a good chance you are wrong — at least in part. Not because you have a bad memory, but because no one has a good memory in the sense we usually mean. ...