Negativity bias

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Negativity bias

Quality:

Negativity bias - psychological phenomenon by which humans have a greater recall of unpleasant memories compared with positive memories. Article “Negativity bias” in English Wikipedia has 66.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 91 references and 12 sections.

This article has the best quality in Indonesian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Negativity bias” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Negativity bias”, its content was written by 109 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 157 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 301 times in English Wikipedia and cited 788 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #9956 in October 2012
  • Global: #55011 in January 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #30810 in November 2013
  • Global: #60452 in November 2009

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Indonesian (id)
Bias negatif
75.9345
2English (en)
Negativity bias
66.8363
3Slovak (sk)
Negativity bias
59.2056
4Hebrew (he)
הטיית השליליות
33.0685
5Arabic (ar)
انحياز للسلبية
32.2282
6French (fr)
Biais de négativité
24.2473
7Chinese (zh)
負面偏誤
22.1803
8Ukrainian (uk)
Упередження негативу
21.929
9Finnish (fi)
Kielteisyysvinouma
21.337
10Spanish (es)
Sesgo de negatividad
21.1988
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Negativity bias" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Negativity bias
1 338 049
2Spanish (es)
Sesgo de negatividad
53 999
3French (fr)
Biais de négativité
17 586
4Chinese (zh)
負面偏誤
11 385
5Arabic (ar)
انحياز للسلبية
9 122
6Persian (fa)
منفی‌نگری
6 398
7Indonesian (id)
Bias negatif
3 215
8Ukrainian (uk)
Упередження негативу
2 874
9Slovak (sk)
Negativity bias
1 933
10Finnish (fi)
Kielteisyysvinouma
1 490
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Negativity bias" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Negativity bias
6 334
2French (fr)
Biais de négativité
628
3Chinese (zh)
負面偏誤
213
4Spanish (es)
Sesgo de negatividad
190
5Hebrew (he)
הטיית השליליות
72
6Persian (fa)
منفی‌نگری
66
7Arabic (ar)
انحياز للسلبية
58
8Indonesian (id)
Bias negatif
42
9Ukrainian (uk)
Упередження негативу
33
10Slovak (sk)
Negativity bias
32
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Negativity bias" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Negativity bias
109
2French (fr)
Biais de négativité
15
3Spanish (es)
Sesgo de negatividad
7
4Hebrew (he)
הטיית השליליות
5
5Indonesian (id)
Bias negatif
5
6Persian (fa)
منفی‌نگری
4
7Arabic (ar)
انحياز للسلبية
3
8Slovak (sk)
Negativity bias
3
9Ukrainian (uk)
Упередження негативу
3
10Finnish (fi)
Kielteisyysvinouma
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Negativity bias" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Negativity bias
1
2Indonesian (id)
Bias negatif
1
3Arabic (ar)
انحياز للسلبية
0
4Spanish (es)
Sesgo de negatividad
0
5Persian (fa)
منفی‌نگری
0
6Finnish (fi)
Kielteisyysvinouma
0
7French (fr)
Biais de négativité
0
8Hebrew (he)
הטיית השליליות
0
9Slovak (sk)
Negativity bias
0
10Ukrainian (uk)
Упередження негативу
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Negativity bias" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Negativity bias
301
2Chinese (zh)
負面偏誤
225
3Arabic (ar)
انحياز للسلبية
85
4French (fr)
Biais de négativité
73
5Ukrainian (uk)
Упередження негативу
57
6Persian (fa)
منفی‌نگری
25
7Spanish (es)
Sesgo de negatividad
7
8Finnish (fi)
Kielteisyysvinouma
7
9Indonesian (id)
Bias negatif
4
10Hebrew (he)
הטיית השליליות
2
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
انحياز للسلبية
enEnglish
Negativity bias
esSpanish
Sesgo de negatividad
faPersian
منفی‌نگری
fiFinnish
Kielteisyysvinouma
frFrench
Biais de négativité
heHebrew
הטיית השליליות
idIndonesian
Bias negatif
skSlovak
Negativity bias
ukUkrainian
Упередження негативу
zhChinese
負面偏誤

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#30810
11.2013
Global:
#60452
11.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#9956
10.2012
Global:
#55011
01.2025

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Negativity bias from Wikipedia articles about Doomscrolling, Borderline personality disorder, Cognitive bias, List of psychological effects and List of cognitive biases. Whereas reading the article about Negativity bias people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Pollyanna principle, Cognitive bias, List of cognitive biases, Fading affect bias and Impression formation.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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