Why does the brain mostly remember tragic, bad or embarassing memories instead of the happy ones

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Why does the brain mostly remember tragic, bad or embarassing memories instead of the happy ones

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Answer 1

I would lean towards it being an effect of evolution. We are okay with happy situations. Maybe in negative situations our brain remembers them because we have things to learn from them. “You can take the brain out of a monkey, but you can’t take the monkey out of the brain”