Negativity captures attention and motivates people to read and share news. However, negative messaging can harm mental health, bias and distort memory, and discourage action to address a crisis. We tested an alternate route to increasing …
Well-informed individual and collective decision-making is aided by access to high-quality, factual information. What motivates people to share high-quality news and how can these motives be leveraged to promote news sharing? Based on the theory that …
Evidence on the harms and benefits of social media use is mixed, in part because the effects of social media on well-being depend on a variety of individual difference moderators. Here, we explored potential neural moderators of the link between time …
Information sharing within social networks can catalyze widespread attitudinal and behavioral change and the chance to share information with others has been characterized as inherently valuable to people. But what are the sources of value and how …