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Your brain prioritizes negative news over positive feedback.
Negativity bias dictates that, across a variety of domains, negative information is processed more deeply and remembered better than positive information.
In a 2001 study, it was found that bad impressions, bad feedback, and negative emotions have a stronger impact on the mind than equivalent good ones. This served an evolutionary purpose of detecting threats, but it now colors your modern interactions.
You have to work harder to register the positive than the negative.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Baumeister et al., 2001
- What the check found
- The paper 'Bad Is Stronger Than Good' (Baumeister et al., 2001) is a seminal work in psychology that supports the claim. The absence of the quote in the provided text is due to the limited reference material scope.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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