"People engage in a number of self-verification strategies. We selectively attend to and recall information that is consistent with (and therefore verifies) our self-views. People with negative self-views, for example, spend more time studying negative rather than positive feedback about themselves; they remember negative feedback better; and they prefer to interact with others who are likely to provide negative rather than positive feedback [emphasis is my own]."
--Social Psychology, pg. 96, by Gilovich, Keltner, Chen, and Nisbett
Which pretty much explains my whole life.
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