Have you ever noticed that when someone says something negative about you it carries much more weight than when someone says something positive about you? One psychological theory for why this happens is that, from an evolutionary perspective, when something negative happens this is a signal that something has changed in our environment and we may have to do something about it. When everything is status quo, or even positive, everything is status quo and we just go about our business.
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