News, Politics, and Negativity
News, Politics, and Negativity
复制标题
DOI：
10.1080/10584609.2014.881942
复制
发表时间：
2015-01-02
影响因子：
7.5
通讯作者：
McAdams, Stephen
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Soroka, Stuart;McAdams, Stephen
政治传播方面的工作讨论了负面新闻的持续主导地位，但几乎没有提供令人信服的解释。然而，越来越多的文献表明，人类通常更关注负面信息，而不是正面信息。本文认为，我们应该将新闻内容的本质部分视为人类行为中观察到的这种不对称偏见的结果。一项捕捉观众对实际新闻内容反应的心理生理学实验表明，负面新闻比正面新闻引发的反应更强烈、更持久。讨论的结果，因为他们属于政治行为和沟通，政治和政治制度更普遍。
Work in political communication has discussed the ongoing predominance of negative news, but has offered few convincing accounts for this focus. A growing body of literature shows that humans regularly pay more attention to negative information than to positive information, however. This article argues that we should view the nature of news content in part as a consequence of this asymmetry bias observed in human behavior. A psychophysiological experiment capturing viewers' reactions to actual news content shows that negative news elicits stronger and more sustained reactions than does positive news. Results are discussed as they pertain to political behavior and communication, and to politics and political institutions more generally.