APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
The Sky Is Falling: Evidence of a Negativity Bias in the Social Transmission of Information
- Bebbington Keely
The University of Western Australia - Colin MacLeod
University of Western Australia - T. Ellison
Australian National University - Nicolas Fay
The University of Western Australia
Abstract
Using the method of serial reproduction, we explored the social transmission of emotional information. Results revealed a bias, favoring the selective transmission of negative information, and the negative resolution of ambiguous information, across successive transmission episodes. The role of anxiety in the expression of this bias was also explored.
Emotion
