'I essentially missed the entire Obama and Trump administrations'.That is probaly the reason your views on political topics are informative and nuanced,you saved your sanity
Do you think it has something to do with "Bad news gets more attention than good news and they are just giving what we are asking them"? I think Hans Rosling's presentation below is also raising a similar point and debunks several myths about world development:
The researchers present their experiment as solid evidence of a so called "negativity bias", psychologists' term for our collective hunger to hear, and remember bad news.
The results of the experiment, as well as the stories that were read most, were somewhat depressing. Participants often chose stories with a negative tone – corruption, set-backs, hypocrisy and so on – rather than neutral or positive stories. People who were more interested in current affairs and politics were particularly likely to choose the bad news.
Yes, this is absolutely part of it. In fact, without this negativity bias none of the other factors would matter. It is important to remember, though, that some psychological temperaments are far more vulnerable to this kind of thinking than others.
It is sad when you think about it. The human brain did not evolve to give us happiness in a world of abundance. I hope that we as a society can figure out better ways for all of us to be happy in abundance.
Fortunately, most of us figure out a way to muddle through and still be reasonably happy.
'I essentially missed the entire Obama and Trump administrations'.That is probaly the reason your views on political topics are informative and nuanced,you saved your sanity
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You are probably correct!
Do you think it has something to do with "Bad news gets more attention than good news and they are just giving what we are asking them"? I think Hans Rosling's presentation below is also raising a similar point and debunks several myths about world development:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&app=desktop&t=25&v=hVimVzgtD6w&feature=youtu.be
As the article from BBC (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140728-why-is-all-the-news-bad) says here:
The researchers present their experiment as solid evidence of a so called "negativity bias", psychologists' term for our collective hunger to hear, and remember bad news.
The results of the experiment, as well as the stories that were read most, were somewhat depressing. Participants often chose stories with a negative tone – corruption, set-backs, hypocrisy and so on – rather than neutral or positive stories. People who were more interested in current affairs and politics were particularly likely to choose the bad news.
Thanks for the comment.
Yes, this is absolutely part of it. In fact, without this negativity bias none of the other factors would matter. It is important to remember, though, that some psychological temperaments are far more vulnerable to this kind of thinking than others.
It is sad when you think about it. The human brain did not evolve to give us happiness in a world of abundance. I hope that we as a society can figure out better ways for all of us to be happy in abundance.
Fortunately, most of us figure out a way to muddle through and still be reasonably happy.