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Negativity In the News
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A recent study looking into the effects of negative and emotional words on news consumers found that while on average more positive and neutral words are used in news headlines than negative and emotional ones, negative words in headlines increased the consumption rate of the article to which they were attached, while positive word-bearing headlines did the opposite.
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