Trump co-chair wants Michelle Obama to "return to being a male and 'let loose' in Zimbabwe to live

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20. Re: "is there not enough good people in this world..."

The microphone goes to the obnoxious, and sells more magazines. People like Paladino feed on the pain they cause others. It's their medicine.


Excerpt: “The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones.”

Paul Rozin and Edward Royzman showed in their research that the negative perspective is more contagious than the positive perspective. A study by John Cacioppo and his colleagues showed that our attitudes are more heavily influenced by bad news than good news. Other researchers analyzed language to study negativity bias. For example, there are more negative emotional words (62 percent) than positive words (32 percent) in the English dictionary.

In our brains, there are two different systems for negative and positive stimuli. The amygdala uses approximately two thirds of its neurons to detect negative experiences, and once the brain starts looking for bad news, it is stored into long-term memory quickly. Positive experiences have to be held in our awareness for more than 12 seconds in order for the transfer from short-term to long-term memory. Rick Hanson describes it in this way: “The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones.”

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201406/are-we-hardwired-be-positive-or-negative