Negative Focus

Fluid Acceptance / De + Di

(-) Negating orientation

Presuming and foregrounding what is bad, wrong, and threatening.

Attention selects weaknesses, failures, and dangers - detecting difference.

Default anticipation expects unfavorable outcomes.

Initial stance is more closed and resistant.

Accumulation of problems along Nonacceptance functions. Instrumental problem-solving along Acceptance.

General Meaning

Negativity

Biological Level

Defensive-system predominance

Cognitive Level

Defect-first, critical cognition

Psychological Level

Lower hedonic baseline

Social Level

Harm prevention, wariness toward strangers