Why are we — as human beings — more prone to focus on the negative things around us (e.g. news) than the positive? Is it because we have some biologicially-wired utopian notion making us feel that things should be good anyway so we focus on the faults and bad more than the strengths and the good? Or is it a societal and environmental aspect. This ties into the nature and nurture debate (of which I have written a paper on), and the philosophies of logic, psychology, and nature.
Anyone hold any beliefs or have any takes on this question of how we view the negative more than the positive?
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Wednesday 27 September 2006
A philosophical question: human perception of positive and negative
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As for the news focusing on the negative more, pejorative news is a lot more interesting than ameliorative news. As of why, i can only speculate. Perhaps because we as humans are programmed to see what is going wrong rather than what is going right. I try to stray away from it because i believe it stunts progress, but one can only do so much. Probably not of much help, but i thought id write a comment anyways.
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