Why does the news always report some bad news? It has something to do with your brain mechanism

Why does the news always report some bad news?

I feel that this world is full of sad and negative news. Maybe you will feel that you can occasionally see some positive and aggressive news, but this is certainly also the effect of human psychology.

Sorka and others from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, have conducted such practical experiences in seventeen countries around the world.

Performance participants were asked to view BBC news on their computers and measure their skin reactions and struggles at that time.

results found that the test participants had a greater response to negative news. Although there are also differences in nature, from the perspective of overall trends, people's consciousness is more likely to be attracted by negative news than those positive and positive news.

Regarding this study, Tiffany A. Ito of Ohio State University and others also pointed out that human brains are particularly prone to paying attention to negative information and have the tendency to process this information first.

This tendency to look at things is called "exhaustion bias", which means that the more negative the information is, the easier it is to attract our attention, and at the same time it will also make the brain more revitalized.

The reason for this mechanism is that handling bad news first helps avoid danger and improve survival chances, which is the instinct of all living things.

If you think about these research results, then in daily life, whether it is Internet or TV, it is more negative about news, because this kind of news can inspire more people to respond (the rate of view and the number of views on the web will increase).

From the perspective of reporting or creating news, the hot response will bring more benefits, so the media deliberately reports these information that is easy to touch the public's reaction.

In addition, when we saw this news, our business experience turned into "controls", and these controls further turned into the atmosphere of the entire world.

This tendency seems to be seen all over the world; whenever something major happens, the atmosphere of "no caution" and "self-control" always spreads around us, which may be a strong influence of the abolition of prejudice. Although this is an innate instinct for people, because of this, when feeling the strong pressure, the negative influence will be greater.

If reading news makes you feel frustrated or uncomfortable, please keep a distance from the media at this time.

Trying to do other things instead of watching news, such as reading hard to fill your time, or making up your mind to start working on things that I thought “just do it another day” before.

Just give yourself a little time or slightly distance like this, your brain can regain your coldness, allowing you to revisit everything, and then find that things are not as bad as you think.

How to UNTHINK

When you feel uncomfortable, just take away the negative information.

※ This article is excerpted from "The more complicated the world is, the more you need to think briefly."

"The more complicated the world is, the more you need to think simply"

Author: Hidego Horita

Translator: Liu Chenyu, Gao Zhanyan

Publisher: Dongbei, Taiwan

Publication date: 2021/01/26