Are you doing that wrong?: The ancient, intriguing history of negativity bias

You may not have a baby, or own a stroller. But you can’t look away from a Reel on the best ways to fold one. Why? Well, it started out as a survival mechanism.

If the many Reels are to be believed, we’ve been wearing earphones wrong, brushing our teeth wrong, peeling off post-its incorrectly. There’s a better way to use a juice carton and apply sunscreen, do the breaststroke and hold one’s phone.

In real life, we’d sever all ties with someone who went on at us in this manner. Yet, online, we can’t seem to look away.

Knowingly and unknowingly social media content creators are tapping into an evolutionary trait called negativity