Is the Negative Making a Bigger Impression on Us?

The idea that humans are fundamentally selfish is one of the oldest ideas in western culture. It goes back at least two thousand years, all the way back to the the ancient greeks or the early christian fathers. Psychologists talk about the negativety byas is that the negative just has a bigger impact on us than the positive. And and e, so we've invented this thing called the news, which is the main source of information about other people that around 90 % of people in the civilized world consume. They tell us that following the news is at an ou the duty of a good citizen, or something like that. But in reality, what it causes is what psychologists call