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1900 results for "News"

We were the victims of fake news

News
Brookings Institution | By Norm Eisen and Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), both fellows in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. "This week, we discovered that our real work is being used to promote 'fake news'. As Yahoo News has reported, an...

Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News
Journal Article
Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—for example, hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized...

Shooting the Messenger
Journal Article
Eleven experiments provide evidence that people have a tendency to “shoot the messenger,” deeming innocent bearers of bad news unlikeable. In a preregistered lab experiment, participants rated messengers who delivered bad news from a random drawing as...