Negative things disproportionally affect our thinking and are easier to pay attention to and remember.

• The pain, loss, hurt stand out more than positive feelings. Related: Loss aversion
• 10 praise vs. 1 criticism. We focus more on negative rather than positive.
• This is probably bc survival favors focusing on threats because a missed threat cost more than a missed reward that said this strategy is increasingly less sensible in our modern safe environments
• Work-in-progress