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Attention is not truth.

Why we're drawn to controversy

Conflict does not make a claim true. But research helps explain why disagreement, negative information, and moral emotion capture attention and travel so quickly.

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Bad information weighs more

A major review found that negative events and information often have a stronger psychological impact than comparable positive ones.

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Negative news activates us

A cross-national experiment found an average physiological negativity bias in responses to television news, while also documenting meaningful individual differences.

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Moral emotion travels

In a large analysis of polarizing debates on social media, moral-emotional language was associated with wider sharing, especially within ideological groups.

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Feedback can amplify outrage

Research on social learning found that positive feedback for outrage predicted more outrage expression later, showing how platform rewards can shape behavior.

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