>And there is definitely survivorship bias. When you survey people about their psychological state, you only survey the ones who aren't too dead to respond Wh

>And there is definitely survivorship bias. When you survey people about their psychological state, you only survey the ones who aren't too dead to respond What is the correlation to outcomes? Are you saying a negative outlook correlates to higher survivability so we are primed to view everything through a more negative lens? That makes sense from an evolutionary psychology point of view, but doesn’t explain why we the well being wanes rather than just stays low from the onset.