{"id":12676,"date":"2023-03-25T01:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T01:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12676"},"modified":"2023-04-25T01:47:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T01:47:10","slug":"sadverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/25\/sadverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadverse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click Here If You Want to Be Sad<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The internet loves bad news. And that\u2019s bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Derek Thompson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Illustration by Matt Chase \/ The Atlantic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last week, I saw a\u00a0new paper<\/a>\u00a0in the journal\u00a0Nature Human Behavior<\/em>\u00a0called \u201cNegativity Drives Online News Consumption.\u201d\u00a0That seems bad<\/em>, I thought. Naturally, I clicked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a randomized study of 105,000 headlines and 370 million impressions from a data set of articles published by the online news dispensary Upworthy, researchers concluded that each negative word increased the click-through rate by more than 2 percent. \u201cThe presence of positive words in a news headline significantly decreases the likelihood of a headline being clicked on,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you even remotely surprised by any of this? Probably not. Neither was New York University\u2019s Claire E. Robertson, a co-author of the paper. \u201cPeople have been saying \u2018If it bleeds, it leads\u2019 for decades,\u201d she told me. But what does that actually mean? Maybe substantively bad news naturally gets more attention, as it probably should. Or, maybe, even humdrum and unimportant stories can be juiced to attract eyes and ears if editors inject their headlines with a dose of sadness and catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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