What is positivity offset?

a. experiencing self-elation

b. experiencing a mildly positive mood at zero input

c. exhibiting a self-serving bias when there is negative input

d. experiencing the fundamental attribution error

e. having misperceptions of one's environment

Positivity offset is B. experiencing a mildly positive mood at zero input.

Explanation:

When nothing in particular is happening, that is, when a situation is neutral, people show a tendency to experience a mildly good mood. They tend to rate their lives as positive when at zero input. That phenomenon is known as positivity offset. In general, across most cultures, people tend to display such tendency. Groups of people who do not usually show positivity offset are those who suffer from depression or who find themselves in extreme poverty.

B. experiencing a mildly positive mood at zero input.

Explanation:

Positivity Offset has individuals interpreting neutral situations as mildly positive. The individuals experience mildly opposite mood at zero input.,

Individuals with paraplegia and spinal damage for instance, never become satisfied with their lives as they were before their disease but with time, say two years, They balance out and then judge themselves as fulfilled and not despondent. The individuals rate their lives as great and they are positive although they are individual with sorrow, individuals with compromising circumstance.

The Positivity Offset is the tendency of individuals to be in a moderately positive state of mind, it is the intercept value for positivity relative to negativity. which is good because it keeps the individual poised to pursue their well being.