Lilach Nir
Lilach Nir appears on this site as co-author of the 2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper on psychophysiological reactions to news.
Who they are
The work of Lilach Nir reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Negativity Bias.
Key papers
Soroka, S., Fournier, P., & Nir, L. (2019). Cross-national evidence of a negativity bias in psychophysiological reactions to news. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(38), 18888-18892. What it reports: A 17-country experiment that recorded physiological responses to real news video found a negativity bias across countries, with considerable variation between individuals; some people reacted more strongly to positive news.
Key ideas
Negativity Bias: The tendency for negative information to carry more weight than equally strong positive information. This article follows it from the 2001 reviews to book sales and to the limits found in consumer settings.
Sources
- Soroka, S., Fournier, P., & Nir, L. (2019). Cross-national evidence of a negativity bias in psychophysiological reactions to news. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(38), 18888-18892.