Good vs. Bad with Jehan Sparks
Opinion Science
English - April 20, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsSocial Sciences Science psychology social science opinion persuasion communication social psychology public opinion Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jehan Sparks studies how positive vs. negative information informs our opinions. One of the things she looks at is something called a "negativity bias" where negative events loom larger than positive events when we're forming a summary impression. We talk about the nature of good vs. bad, how the order in which we learn information matters, and how different people think about information differently.
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