Sentences with phrase «emotional biases about»

«Rational arguments do not convince people who have emotional biases about something.

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Some of these seem to be linked by a shared emotional basis: the «endowment effect» (overvaluation of what we already have), «status quo bias» (an emotional preference for maintaining the status quo), and «loss aversion» (the tendency to attribute much more weight to potential losses than potential gains when assessing risk) are all related to an innate conservatism about what we feel we have already invested in.

In couples therapy, in addition to exploring these given biases, we work to create conversations about emotional labor that aren't blaming.

In a related vein, consistent with theories on emotional contagion according to which intimate partners are highly vulnerable to each other's emotions (Goodman and Shippy 2002), it is conceivable that mothers are biased toward negative emotions due to their partners» psychological difficulties, leading mothers to talk more about these emotions with their children.