If you google search positive term dictionaries vs negative term dictionaries you'll find the negative term dictionary is 5x - 10x larger. Point being, we have

If you google search positive term dictionaries vs negative term dictionaries you'll find the negative term dictionary is 5x - 10x larger. Point being, we have many more terms to describe negative events. Likely, this means we have a large biased towards negativity. As Kronopath mentioned, there is definitely research out there describing the exact opposite of this article.