A new investigation helps shed light on how news stories about potential threats become more negative, inaccurate and hysterical when passed from person to person.
Researchers from the University of Warwick, discovered that even drawing the public’s attention to balanced, neutral facts does not calm this hysteria.
“The more people share information, the more negative it becomes, the further it gets from the facts, and the more resistant it becomes to correction,” said psychology...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/06/09/serial-sharing-of-threat-news-can-amplify-bias-fear/136014.html
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