Negativity Drives Online News Consumption

Robertson, C. E., Pröllochs, N., Schwarzenegger, K., Pärnamets, P., Van Bavel, J. J., & Feuerriegel, S. (2023). Negativity Drives Online News Consumption. Nature Human Behaviour, 812-822.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2023

Pages

812-822

DOI

10.1038/s41562-023-01538-4

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01538-4

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Rage-Baiting
  • Research shows that moral-emotional language is associated with increased diffusion and that negative headline wording can causally increase click-through in tested news settings, though those findings establish enabling mechanisms rather than proving every provocative post is intentional rage bait.

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