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The study basically concludes that reading sad stuff makes one sad, which in turn makes one post stuff that is also sad. The unique thing about it is that one i
by ivv 12y ago
The study basically concludes that reading sad stuff makes one sad, which in turn makes one post stuff that is also sad. The unique thing about it is that one is both a reader and an author. Otherwise, movie and TV studios have been testing and tweaking movies for a particular emotional effect since forever.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoAlthough perhaps more importantly that constant exposure to emotional bias can put that bias in you. There was a much less credible study of whether or not watching Fox News made you more conservative (the unspoken threat there was that watching any consistently biased narrative would align you to that narrative) but the Facebook study has better statistics. So one wonders if all the kids programming is consistently biased towards some topic, will it bias that generation? Sort of a weird inception sort of hypothesis. For me it just confirmed my own experience that being around people who are sad makes me feel sad (not sure if I'm sad for them or me, but what ever) and so being optimistic around people might keep them going. But again not a lot of science there.