I assume by “irrationally” you mean relative to the risk a quarrel posed in the ancestral environment? That would apply to all attention direction of modern humans. If so we should call this the modern society attention misapplication bias.
That would apply to all attention direction of modern humans.
Sure, we’re biased in many ways, but we’re especially biased about quarrels. A political argument in the EEA could be a matter of life or death; in the modern world it has almost no importance whatsoever.
It is a bias in your attention allocation system, which irrationally overestimates the value of thinking about quarrel-related issues.
I assume by “irrationally” you mean relative to the risk a quarrel posed in the ancestral environment? That would apply to all attention direction of modern humans. If so we should call this the modern society attention misapplication bias.
Sure, we’re biased in many ways, but we’re especially biased about quarrels. A political argument in the EEA could be a matter of life or death; in the modern world it has almost no importance whatsoever.