Negativity is never a good thing for your brain and with the coming election there is a giant negative wave coming. Leading psychologists and media interpreters say that, just like personal negativity, media negativity weighs on a persons optimistic tendencies. People tend to become more pessimistic and there views on the world change to a much darker ideal. They become callous and in turn are callous to others. It is a never ending cycle of pessimism. So what can you do? Nothing really except turn it off. Stay away from media sites like Facebook and stay away from overly aggressive people.
Key Takeaways:
- Thanks not only to the battle for the presidency, but also to a seemingly endless series of crises and losses, we’ve been inundated with bad news in 2016.
- Cognitive shortcuts triggered by the news can also lead us to gradually see the world as a darker and darker place, chipping away at certain optimistic tendencies.
- But sadly, what’s true about personal negativity seems to be true about media negativity too — it strengthens our tendency to see the bad in the world and it makes easier and easier to be pessimistic.
“But sadly, what’s true about personal negativity seems to be true about media negativity too — it strengthens our tendency to see the bad in the world and it makes easier and easier to be pessimistic.”
