Source: Persuasion
by Andrew Xu
“There is an old quip about mainstream journalism: ‘if it bleeds, it leads.’ Negative news gets more traction than positive news, for the same reasons that airplane passengers would prefer potato chips to baby carrots: human beings are attracted to the things that are bad for us because they are enticing in the heat of the moment.” (12/30/24)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/negativity-bias-isnt-going-away