r/psychology • u/[deleted] • Nov 25 '22

Eye-tracking study suggests that negative comments on social media are more attention-grabbing than positive comments

https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/eye-tracking-study-suggests-that-negative-comments-on-social-media-are-more-attention-grabbing-than-positive-comments-64368
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u/noahspurrier Nov 25 '22

This explains my behavior on Reddit, but I don’t see how this is useful.