Blinding beauty: When and how product attractiveness overpowers negative information

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gratiana Pol ◽  
C. W. Park ◽  
Andreas Eisingerich
Keyword(s):  
Negative Information ◽  
Product Attractiveness

Don’t Put Me in This Group

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Jort de Vreeze ◽  
Christina Matschke
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Negative Information ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Group Memberships

Abstract. Not all group memberships are self-chosen. The current research examines whether assignments to non-preferred groups influence our relationship with the group and our preference for information about the ingroup. It was expected and found that, when people are assigned to non-preferred groups, they perceive the group as different to the self, experience negative emotions about the assignment and in turn disidentify with the group. On the other hand, when people are assigned to preferred groups, they perceive the group as similar to the self, experience positive emotions about the assignment and in turn identify with the group. Finally, disidentification increases a preference for negative information about the ingroup.

Spillover of negative information on brand alliances

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole L. Votolato ◽  
H. Rao Unnava ◽  
Sekar Raju
Keyword(s):  
Negative Information ◽  
Brand Alliances

Do M&A Delistings Impact U.S. Capital Markets? Evidence of Negative Information Externalities for Industry Peer Firms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Bergman Brown ◽  
Donal Byard ◽  
Masako N. Darrough ◽  
Jangwon Suh
Keyword(s):  
Capital Markets ◽  
Negative Information ◽  
Peer Firms

Does Performing Other Audit Tasks Affect Going-Concern Judgments?

1999 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen E. Rau ◽  
Donald V. Moser
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Negative Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Information ◽  
Going Concern ◽  
Staff Members

This study examines whether personally performing other audit tasks can bias supervising seniors' going-concern judgments. During an audit, the senior performs some audit tasks him/herself and delegates other tasks to staff members. When personally performing an audit task, the senior would focus on the evidence related to that task. We predict that such evidence will have greater influence on the senior's subsequent going-concern judgment. The results of our experiment are consistent with our predictions. When provided with an identical set of information, seniors who performed another audit task for which the underlying facts of the case reflected positively (negatively) on the company's viability, subsequently made going-concern judgments that were relatively more positive (negative). Our results also demonstrate that the well-documented tendency of auditors to attend more to negative information does not always dominate auditors' information processing. Subjects who performed the task for which the underlying facts reflected positively on the company's viability directed their attention to such positive information and, consequently, both their memory and judgments were more positive than those of subjects in the other conditions. Recent findings indicating that biases in seniors' going-concern judgments may not be fully offset in the review process are discussed along with other potential implications of our results.

scholarly journals Bad World: The Negativity Bias in International Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic D.P. Johnson ◽  
Dominic Tierney
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Negative Information ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Negativity Bias ◽  
Positive Information ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Research

A major puzzle in international relations is why states privilege negative over positive information. States tend to inflate threats, exhibit loss aversion, and learn more from failures than from successes. Rationalist accounts fail to explain this phenomenon, because systematically overweighting bad over good may in fact undermine state interests. New research in psychology, however, offers an explanation. The “negativity bias” has emerged as a fundamental principle of the human mind, in which people's response to positive and negative information is asymmetric. Negative factors have greater effects than positive factors across a wide range of psychological phenomena, including cognition, motivation, emotion, information processing, decision-making, learning, and memory. Put simply, bad is stronger than good. Scholars have long pointed to the role of positive biases, such as overconfidence, in causing war, but negative biases are actually more pervasive and may represent a core explanation for patterns of conflict. Positive and negative dispositions apply in different contexts. People privilege negative information about the external environment and other actors, but positive information about themselves. The coexistence of biases can increase the potential for conflict. Decisionmakers simultaneously exaggerate the severity of threats and exhibit overconfidence about their capacity to deal with them. Overall, the negativity bias is a potent force in human judgment and decisionmaking, with important implications for international relations theory and practice.

A Method of Opinion Tendency Analyzing Based on Regular Expression

2013 ◽  
Vol 347-350 ◽  
pp. 2758-2762
Author(s):  
Zhi Juan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Regular Expression ◽  
Negative Information ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Internet Information ◽  
Information Bank ◽  
The Web

Negative Internet information is harmful for social stability and national unity. Opinion tendency analyzing can find the negative Internet information. Here, a method based on regular expression is introduces that neednt complex technologies about semantics. This method includes: building negative information bank, designing regular expression and the realization of program. The result gotten from this method verified it works perfect on judging the opinion of the web pages.

scholarly journals Unpacking Plastic: Investigating Plastic Related Ambivalence

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2186
Author(s):  
Lena Hahn ◽  
Benjamin Buttlar ◽  
Eva Walther
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Negative Information ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Simultaneous Existence

Many people are aware of the negative consequences of plastic use on the environment. Nevertheless, they use plastic due to its functionality. In the present paper, we hypothesized that this leads to the experience of ambivalence—the simultaneous existence of positive and negative evaluations of plastic. In two studies, we found that participants showed greater ambivalence toward plastic packed food than unpacked food. Moreover, they rated plastic packed food less favorably than unpacked food in response evaluations. In Study 2, we tested whether one-sided (only positive vs. only negative) information interventions could effectively influence ambivalence. Results showed that ambivalence is resistant to (social) influence. Directions for future research were discussed.

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