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Monday, November 1, 2010
Negativity
(1) Negative Information Weighs More Heavily on the Brain:
The Negativity Bias in Evaluative Categorizations
http://www.wisebrain.org/papers/NegativityBias.pdf
The study explains why, for example,
political smear campaigns outpull positive ones.
Nastiness just makes a bigger impact on our brains.
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