Negativity bias and feedback
Receiving criticism will always have a greater impact than receiving praise.
And we remember criticism strongly but inaccurately. But although criticism is more likely to be remember incorrectly, we don’t often forget it - almost everyone remembers negative things more strongly and in more detail.
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