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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"negativity bias"”.
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Effects of Motion on Infants' Negativity Bias in Emotion Perception
The negativity bias is a phenomenon that is characterized by infants being more influenced by, attending more to, and responding to more negative emotion information from the environment than positive emotion information. This study used a Tobii© T60 eye-tracking system to examine differences in 8- …
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Making sense of media emotions around traffic reduction schemes: Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and School Streets in news and social media
… within the context of underlying media logics, negativity bias, and societal structures. The research employed a mixed-methods design, leading with a Qualitative Content Analysis of local news articles and supplemented with an exploratory text mining study of Twitter data from 2018 to 2022. The …
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Neural Mechanisms Promoting Biased Social Memories in Intergenerational Childhood Abuse
… study investigates whether neural and cognitive biases in social processing – specifically, the encoding and recall of social feedback – serve as pathways linking childhood abuse histories to harsh parenting of the next generation. Using fMRI and a verifiable, ecologically valid social feedback …
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Diversifying digital media research
… a mixed-methodological account to highlight the negativity bias (risks versus benefits) in research investigating the psychological impact of smartphones. I compliment these results by conducting a qualitative study into the impact of digital inclusion versus digital exclusion in 32 rural, …
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Understanding Online Trolling Exposure's Impact on Purchase Intention: The Case of the Xbox Tax
… has become more polarized, with accusations of bias and favoritism – often called the “Xbox Tax” – influencing consumer perceptions before purchasing. Although similar patterns of incivility have been widely studied in politics, there is limited research on how exposure to toxic online …
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Children’s recognition of emotional tone-of-voice
… offering some support to action intention and negativity bias. Overall, passages were well-recognised but not necessarily better than shorter, sentence-stimuli. A third investigation considered whether practice/training could improve children’s emotion recognition. Children listened to an …
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Memory for Positive, Negative, and Comparison Ads: Studying Semantic Associations Between Candidates and Issues Using EEG
… relative to Positive Ads, according to the negativity bias (Hypothesis 1 and 2, respectively). However, recognizing that humans are motivated information processors, this dissertation tests for moderating effects between and among variables (in particular, Ad Type, Ad Sponsor, and …
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Social Influences on Children's Option Valuations
… These findings are discussed in the context of a negativity bias, and several explanations are considered to explain the gender difference. Together, the studies provide new insight into children's early economic reasoning, and highlight how peer preferences influence children's developing …