What accounts for the prevalence of negative news content? One answer may lie in the
tendency for humans to react more strongly to negative than positive information.“Negativity …

Do algorithm-driven news sources have different effects on political behavior when
compared to non-algorithmic news sources? Media companies compete for our scarce time …

Canonical theories of opinion formation attribute an important role to affect. But how and for
whom affect matters is theoretically underdeveloped. We establish the circumplex model in …

Narratives are effective tools for evoking emotions, and physiological measurements provide
a means of objectively assessing emotional reactions–making them a potentially powerful …

Smartphones are expanding physical access to news and political information by making
access to the internet available to more people, at more times throughout the day, and in …

Literatures across the social sciences highlight the tendency for humans to be more attentive
to negative information than to positive information. We focus here on negativity biases in …

Opinion formation and information processing are affected by unconscious affective
responses to stimuli—particularly in politics. Yet we still know relatively little about such …

The smartphone is now an indispensable part of everyday life. Such mobile devices are
increasingly used to consume news. Newspapers have embraced the mobile devices to …

Background: Media affects the trajectory of many individuals' mental health—with media
news, individuals experience negative bias more than positive bias. However, there is also …

News avoidance, particularly among women, raises potential challenges for democracy.
While research shows audiences don't penalize women reporters or the outlets that employ …