Researchers studied people’s physiological reactions to positive and negative news content across 17 countries and 6 continents.
On average, people are more physiologically activated by negative news than positive news.
Negative events generally have more impact on our mental + physical states than positive events.
See the full study here :
Soroka, S., Fournier, P., & Nir, L. (2019). Cross-national evidence of a negativity bias in psychophysiological reactions to news. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(38), 18888-18892.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908369116
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