Why does so much news seem negative? Human attention may be to blame
by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
Sep 06, 2019
2 minutes
Ever wonder why there's so much bad news out there? Maybe it's because people find bad news more interesting than good news.
A new study involving more than 1,000 people across 17 countries spanning every continent but Antarctica concludes that, on average, people pay more attention to negative news than to positive news.
The findings, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hint
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