Psychologically speaking, why do people pay more attention to negative news?

I believe many people have heard that one sentence can ruin a child's life. This sentence mainly reflects the horror of language violence. Because children rely on parents, teachers and other authorities, they are only negative words of emotional venting, but they have the power to destroy children's self.

Only children will be affected by it?

Have you ever thought that you have grown up, received a good education, and even thought you have absolute free will, but you are as helpless as a child when you are attacked by negative information? The difference is that when you were young, you were influenced by it because you had no choice. When you grow up, you are influenced by it because you have a choice.

Let's do a little experiment first and give you a minute to think about the topic you are concerned about recently. How much is positive news and how much is negative news?

Time is up. Let's take a look at the topics that Bian Xiao has recently collected and discussed a lot:

Bao Yu Ming incident

Show Lo multiplayer sports events

Hive charging event

Papi sauce children take their father's surname.

Big-headed doll milk powder incident

If you recall the opposite nature of these events, congratulations, your brain may have evolved to get rid of the shackles of human development. If the events you recall are similar in nature, congratulations, you can feel the traces of human evolution.

Many psychological experiments show that people are more sensitive to negative information, showing great concern for it and faster response to negative words. Evolutionary psychology believes that paying attention to negative information is helpful to human survival, and the possible cost of ignoring negative information is often far greater than ignoring positive information.

As far as early humans are concerned, ignoring the information of fruit trees a few kilometers away is the hungriest, but ignoring the negative information of wild animals nearby may be fatal at any time. Therefore, we instinctively pay more attention to negative information, and this setting still controls our attention.

As far as the epidemic situation in COVID-19 is concerned, you may not know how many people are cured every day, but you are likely to click on the number of new infections that pop up in the mobile phone push bar. Even during the epidemic, many people will suffer from insomnia, fear and despair because they pay too much attention to infection data.

Of course, this is not only a concern, but also news push from the perspective of traffic is constantly catering to this feature. In order to create a topic, various news media will also give priority to reporting negative news, and the same event is also more inclined to report negative content.

Just like the setting of the topic of this tweet, if it is written as: How easy it is to make progress, one sentence may be enough. You probably won't even click in.

The combination of the two causes us to pay attention to mostly negative information, which also leads to sales anxiety, and the content that creates fear is widely spread, which may affect our judgment of events in many cases.

At present, people are generally not particularly comfortable in the environment, and this mismatch between the brain setting mode and the modern lifestyle really needs attention.

First of all, I want to write this topic because Bian Xiao recently found that the proportion of negative information and positive information in the events within the scope of the topic is seriously mismatched. Then, after thinking of the last tweet, some readers reflected the problem of not curing the propaganda class. Suddenly, they found that it didn't seem right, so they gave up the original topic and shared this phenomenon with everyone.

It can be seen that Bian Xiao also unconsciously pays attention to more negative information, and at the same time consciously spreads negative information. Although our voice is not loud, it also reflects the problem.

As I said just now, this preference is not a bad thing. It has played a vital role in the process of human development, so that it has been written into our genes and become an automatic program of the brain.

Now, for most people, they no longer live in many dangers, and their excessive preference for negative news may adversely affect their lives. If you find yourself particularly vulnerable to the negative information around you and affect your attitude and state of life, it is necessary to be alert to this situation.

This is especially true in the following situations.