Why do people focus more on the negative than the positive?
If 20 people give you a compliment but 1 person says something negative about you then you are more likely to focus on the one negative comment?
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SteelHands · 61-69, M
There's a theory. It goes such that condition is only present in people that operate their minds at a rudimentary, instinctive level.
This is something akin to basic animal instinct. As if pain avoidance holds the higher priority for the accumulation of reactive memory in those individuals.
Much the way a puppy will learn to hunker before a rolled up newspaper. Or smaller fish scurry into weed beds to protect themselves from larger predators.
The knee jerk, instinctive reaction is to have a highly focused attention span on things they consider faulty. Also sometimes act as notifiers of same. It's probably also a natural stage in the human maturation proces.
This is something akin to basic animal instinct. As if pain avoidance holds the higher priority for the accumulation of reactive memory in those individuals.
Much the way a puppy will learn to hunker before a rolled up newspaper. Or smaller fish scurry into weed beds to protect themselves from larger predators.
The knee jerk, instinctive reaction is to have a highly focused attention span on things they consider faulty. Also sometimes act as notifiers of same. It's probably also a natural stage in the human maturation proces.