The study has important implications for understanding conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Bad experiences can cause people to strongly remember the negative content itself but only ...

The old adage, if it bleeds, it leads, underscores the reality of the prevalence of bad news ... is and why it is there is a powerful first step. We can then begin to process our negative thoughts ...

There are several reasons why these sorts of comments have such an outsized impact on your psyche. Negative comments engage avoidance motivation. When you’re motivated to avoid something bad ...

Why negative moods have this effect on memory may be linked to the reason negative moods also give people a fairer sense of judgement: As Forgas showed in 2011, people in a bad mood are less ...