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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SW-User

It’s instinct. If we only focused on the positive, we’d never be motivated to improve. In other words, we’d stagnate and die.