Here are some links to studies and references to be laid out with like https://strenduro.com/strenduro-formula-456-faq/
This problem has been approached by perhaps thousands of researchers from as many directions, each coming from an approach vector unique to the lived experience of each researcher.
Some researchers felt as though the strength with which negative emotions are personally experienced by a person colored their interaction with the world more than anything else and so moves it into prominence. Other researchers, who were also running a business that wanted to entice clients, felt that focus on negative emotions in group environments helped nobody make a positive decision to tell a friend about their great new psychometric instrument– and so they left out the entire Neuroticism/Stability Dimension from their Inventory and Reporting.
Eysenck, Plutchik, Pervin, John, Johnson, Goldberg, Buss