Marianne Stenger

Happy workers are more productive and engaged in their work, so it’s no surprise that job satisfaction has become increasingly important to both employers and employees.

Are you a brooder? Do you analyse otherwise insignificant interactions or situations over and over until you’ve extracted some sort of meaning from them? This tendency to look for the worst in situations that are neither positive nor negative is known as negative interpretation bias, and research has linked it to emotional and behavioural disorders like anxiety and depression.