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University of Michigan: News Consumers Differ Widely in Their Preferences for Negative or Positive Content
September 04, 2019
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Sept. 4 [TNSsociologyresearch] -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:

Research regularly finds that Americans respond more strongly to negative news content, but a recent study suggests it's a global occurrence.

According to a University of Michigan study across 17 countries on six continents, the average person is more physiologically activated by negative content than by positive content.

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