Your likes tell others more about you than your dislikes do. Positive and negative attitudes are not equivalent. Whereas people tend to like things for similar reasons, they often dislike them for different reasons. We predict and show consequences of this asymmetry for impression formation in minimal-information contexts involving everyday attitude objects: People perceive others' positive attitudes (likes) as more informative than their negative attitudes (dislikes) and infer greater knowledge about a person from their likes. Across six preregistered studies (total N = 1100), participants reported greater perceived knowledge about targets based on their positive attitudes than negative ones. This asymmetry held across diverse domains (e.g., music, movies, sports) and could not be attributed to attitudes' frequency or participants' own attitudes. Instead, participants judged dislikes as more ambiguous, reflecting the greater diversity and disjunctive nature of negativity. If one learns that somebody likes playing tennis, one may infer that playing tennis falls within that person's desirable range of physical exertion and rule complexity. However, if somebody dislikes playing tennis, one cannot make similarly informative inferences about that person. This greater diversity of negativity can be derived from the range principle and the Anna Karenina principle. [Range principle: Good things occupy a narrow intermediate (“just right”) range of continuous properties; bad things fall outside it in multiple directions (e.g., too hot or too cold). Anna Karenina principle: Good outcomes are alike because they require all key factors to be right at once; bad outcomes differ because failure can occur in many different ways, any single missing factor suffices]. Our findings help to explain why people experience stronger interpersonal attraction when they share a positive attitude than when they share a negative attitude.

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The reason postpartum depression is so prevalent in society is because women are brainwashed into believing their self worth comes from being sexually attractive, or a high powered executive, or they’re overworked trying to be it all. Aside from churches motherhood is no longer the highest of honors. It’s a side gig not worthy of praise. Thanks to libs.