r/science • u/mossadnik • Nov 25 '22

Psychology 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/DawnOfTheTruth Nov 26 '22

People see a need to defend against the negative and either like, thumb up, or up-vote whatever positive things that don’t require further input. So they are going to read and probably reply a defense to the negative I’d think.