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yeah, 1 negative comment sticks in your head more than 100 positive ones. Not sure what the actual psychological explanation for that is but it's true in my experience


I don't remember if it has a name, but the theory is that there's more of an evolutionary advantage to remembering and avoiding bad things, because one significant enough bad event takes you out of the gene pool.




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