Negativity

Negativity

Negativity may refer to:

See also

  • Negative (disambiguation)
  • Negativism (disambiguation)

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  • Negativity effect — In psychology, the negativity effect is the tendency of people, when evaluating the causes of the behaviors of a person they dislike, to attribute their positive behaviors to the environment and their negative behaviors to the person s inherent… …   Wikipedia

  • negativity — noun see negative I …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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