{"id":8640,"date":"2019-09-23T00:36:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T00:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2019-09-23T00:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T00:36:33","slug":"how-negative-news-distorts-our-thinking-psychology-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/09\/23\/how-negative-news-distorts-our-thinking-psychology-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How Negative News Distorts Our Thinking | Psychology Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Watch, read, or listen to the news, and you\u2019re likely to come away believing that the world is rapidly descending into disaster and chaos, even though many aspects of life have improved dramatically over the last few decades. Exposure to consistent, sensationalized pessimism and negativity has become the norm for those keeping up with the news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-modern-brain\/201909\/how-negative-news-distorts-our-thinking\">How Negative News Distorts Our Thinking | Psychology Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And their three key points:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1. Negativity <a class=\"inline-links topic-link\" title=\"Psychology Today looks at bias\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/bias\">bias<\/a> means that we can&#8217;t turn negative news off. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Availability bias means that after we see negativity, we overestimate its significance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. <a class=\"inline-links topic-link\" title=\"Psychology Today looks at Confirmation bias\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/motivated-reasoning\">Confirmation bias<\/a> means that we will find evidence to support negativity.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The conclusion is we need to turn off the news. It&#8217;s become mostly pointless entertainment, with speculation, fear, click-bait headlines &#8211; just a lot of noise that provides us with little of value &#8211; but does drive eyeballs to advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News focused on the negative, is overly dramatic, leads us to false conclusions about the world and is largely pointless speculation, fear and dlick-bait headlines designed primarily to attract eyeballs to advertisers. News is also largely a waste of our time, says Psychology Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31,34,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-mental-health","category-other","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}