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Do emotional and social primers change the pessimism in collective future thinking? Testing the robustness of the collective negativity bias.
Tori Peña, Suparna Rajaram
Published: 202510.3758/s13423-025-02799-y
Abstract
People are not optimistic about the future of the USA. When reporting their thoughts about the future, people express more worries than excitement, a phenomenon known as the collective negativity bias, and widely replicated among people residing in t…
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