The Power of Bad
Tierney, John / Baumeister, Roy F.![The Power of Bad](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/340/34099433/CHSBZCOP0334099433.jpg)
The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read."-Martin E. P. Seligman, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at that University of Pennsylvania and author of Learned Optimism Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when it's mixed with lavish praise? Because our brains are wired to focus on the bad. This negativity effect explains things great and small: why countries blunder into disa...