Why we (as a whole) respond that way makes sense from what I know about experimental psych. If news is optimized for clicks / views, negative stories are more

Why we (as a whole) respond that way makes sense from what I know about experimental psych. If news is optimized for clicks / views, negative stories are more engaging, and the availability heuristic is accurate (aka we assign greater importance to things we can immediately recall), then viewing profit-on-engagement news fundamentally reshapes our opinion of the world.