TIL negative differentiation, suggesting that negativity is conceptualized in a more elaborate and complex way than positivity. Studies show that negative vocabulary is more richly descriptive of the affective experience and there appear to be more terms to express negative feelings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
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