Positive Bias

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Positive bias refers to the human tendency to overestimate the possibility of positive (good) things happening in life or in research. In publication, it is the preference for publishing research that has a positive (eventful) outcome, than an uneventful or negative outcome.

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Question:  Proponents of evolutionary psychology suggest that it seeks to integrate psychology into the other _____________sciences, rooting it in the organizing theory of evolutionary theory, and thus starting to understand psychology as a branch of biology.


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