The Negativity Bias

Our brain has a natural tendency to give weight and to remember more clearly the unpleasant experiences compared to the pleasant ones or the positive ones. And it seems that we're hard wired this way. It's an evolutionary survival tactic. The important thing to understand here, with perceptions like sensations are like form, is that my sensations are not me. So now let's go into mental formations. This is where concepts, thoughts and beliefs start to form and develop.