The sky is falling: evidence of a negativity bias in the social transmission of information
Abstract
The method of serial reproduction has revealed that the social transmission of information is characterized by the gradual transformation of the original message. This transformation results from the preferential survival of certain types of information and the resolution of ambiguity. Here we present evidence of a bias favoring the social transmission of negatively-valenced information across multiple transmission episodes. Ninety-two,...
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Title
The sky is falling: evidence of a negativity bias in the social transmission of information
Published Date
Jan 1, 2017
Journal
Volume
38
Issue
1
Pages
92 - 101
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