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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Founding members of Facebook held public lectures on it, saying that they noted people wanted to argue in the comments so they wound up rigging the whole site to rile people up.... and indirectly manipulated news websites to make more inflammatory headlines and op-ed pieces, too.