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Why The Negativity Effect Rules Your Life & What You Never Knew About Liquids

Something You Should Know

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The Power of Bad

The power of bad is the negativety effect, which is the universal tendency of bad events and bad emotions to affect us more strongly than good ones. When you hear a mix of complement and criticism, you obsess over the criticism instead of enjoying the praise. There must be a reason why we do this, why we're so drawn to the negative. I imagine it has thing to do with our survival as a species, or some sort of evolutionary thing,. It's adaptive, as evolutionary biologists call it, that it helped our ancestors survive.

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