I don't get people who think of themselves as underserving of happiness or love. What's the reinforcing mechanism? How is this evolutionary advantageous?
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the evolutionary advantage is you don't piss off your parents (or other possible sources of abuse) by disagreeing with them
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lots more to say, i won't be able to do justice to this question in a few tweets but i'll close with these screenshots from the coherence therapy manual about different kinds of purposes for maintaining low self-worth
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This is very informative, thank you for sharing!
If I'm interpreting this correctly, negative self perception seems a side effect of agreeableness where the people you have to agree with consider you negatively