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Why is it that negativity gets more attention than positivity?

Whenever someone says that they like something, most people just talk about it for a couple minutes (if that), brush it off, and move on to the next topic. But whenever someone says something wrong, everyone in the conversation has to tell that person that they're wrong, over and over again. I don't get it... heck, I'm kind of doing that right now, even! Shouldn't attention be directly proportional to positivity, not inversely? It just doesn't make sense to me. Then again, people would rather watch drama than peaceful times...

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that it's not "normal." Even though people do stuff wrong all the time, the expectation is that they will not, so it seems absurd when they don't, and it attracts attention. For some reason. I still don't get it.