And, I'm happier. *Facepalm* It's NOT arson.It was a just theory proposed by a woman on a Facebook post, and I can't believe people fell for it. Better yet, try a news fast for a week and see how you feel. Better than 99.9% of people, esp reporters. It’s one thing to be informed, but quite another to expose yourself to sensationalized negativity for hours a day. If anything they're making things worse. First, due to the negativity bias, we preferentially consume negative content. Again, lefties and righties. We have it better than pretty well any generation in history. This needs to be higher than anything related to Trump. Good News in a Bad News World. These Three Microbes May Manipulate Our Thoughts, How COVID-19 Hijacks a Psychological Vulnerability. The criminal will soon (or is already) be suffering in jail, with the security and other prisoners doing the same thing that he did to the baby, just to see how he likes it! I was in Chicago the day after the riot at the Democratic convention. Unfortunately, along with this good news about journalistic freedom from the UK, there’s bad news from parts of the world, including China which recorded the highest number of … Someone in the group opened fire on the vehicle, killing the 8 year old. It seems like bad news is the only kind of news coming from that region of the world these days. Almost caused WW3. The writer is … R.I.P. “I was ... Disabled army veteran conquers the Matterhorn. The idea is that if you store new information in a more objective manner, it will give you a more balanced perspective when you later use it as a reference. The bending & narrowing of thought been a $price point$ from all of those that report (what we should think) , and project. Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. All lives matter is not understanding the full picture, to write off this all together. I live in Melbourne, which wasn't damaged that much, but I kept seeing smoke everywhere and the sky was burning. And missed nothing. Imran Jan January 13, 2021. It showed the world what can be achieved if people rally for a common cause. In a straight forward explanation, Molly McKew explains in Did Russia Affect the 2016 Election Its Now Undeniable how the Russian information warfare unit plays on our natural biases to force us into an intractable political divide. I think humans will go extinct in the next 500 years or less and the earth will eventually recover from us. Why Your Abusive Narcissistic Mate Claims to Be the Victim, We Have Neanderthals to Thank for These Genetic Traits, Psychology Today © 2021 Sussex Publishers, LLC. Many of us struggle with the barrage of increased news stories. I am sick of having to wear a mask when I go outside my home. More people die from police brutality than will in these riots. Most of the passengers on this flight were visiting their family members for Eid but little did they know that Karachi wasn't their actual destination. Now the deadliest gun shooting in 2020 & the deadliest single man made incident this year after the Ukrainian plane attack in Iran that killed 176. Go … This (FAKE) election was so messed up and shady, that many people have decided that they are never going to vote again, because they feel as though their voices don't matter, because democrats will just rig the election with Mail in voting. Most people are, and they're going to be rudely awakened shortly after the ice caps melt in the early 2030s, because the final moderating force on weather will be gone, making large-scale agriculture and animal husbandry a thing of the past, and mass starvation a thing of the present. So not only are we seeking out the negative, but media outlets are actively trying to give us more of it. Secoriea Turner was shot in the area of University Ave while riding in a vehicle with her mother and an adult friend. One powerful way to start lowering the effects of confirmation bias is to question your beliefs periodically. Spot on. The media overreacting to every little thing about this cold to make money off of it. To help mitigate the risks of availability bias, try to put negative information into context. Bad news for Donald Trump. I understand some stuff, like disabling comments, but why can't I put the videos on miniplayer? People are tired of all the lies, finger-pointing, and complete ...more. With covid, Floyd could have been erased from memory, after some light protests. I remeber when lychings were part of the news. Posted Sep 02, 2011 All school shootings are awful in their own right. I wasn't enraged, or threatened or scared. Now we are going to have no economy left. “The PGA of America Board of … If you’re constantly watching negative news, the availability bias means your brain may be more likely to remember horrible events and then believe that these relatively infrequent occurrences actually represent the general state of things. The only instance where you will react is that it is very contagious. Try to get at least a half hour of exercise per day. It's part of our routine. People who lose track of the difference can go mad. Worse still, people are trying to use the pandemic for selfish or political gains. There was more bad news on Tuesday for cruise fans hoping to return to the high seas when cruise giant Royal Caribbean said it would delay its restart in most of the world by another two months.. Yeah, I was glad that I had bought a new 3ds right before this happened, as MUCH I would like to rant on about how amazing this is, THERE ARE WORST THINGS ON THE PLANET! People have always fought over water and food supplies, but there's less fighting for it in modern times because of scientific break throughs. Biden’s trans rights agenda is bad news for women and girls The Spectator 14:46 21-Jan-21 St George’s hospital reports 24 new Covid deaths in the last week London News Online 14:37 21-Jan-21 Why Boris Johnson is wrong to blame record Covid deaths on the new variant Yahoo! Or hating on 'the other'. And I mean left and right, but IMHO the left dominates and lefties consume more "news". George Floyd becomes another forgotten name, like Breonna Taylor. They are on alert 24/7 for the latest attack from "them". The world is unsafe because our hearts are rotten. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. One thing this election made me realize is that I live in one of the pockets of deep deep blue, and that most of the country does not. An old friend is so angry (he's conservative) that he's alienating his wife (who agrees with him politically.). Being black myself makes me sad because I've seen too many stuff like this happen. have proven how big of a deal SARS-CoV-2 is to the world. But instead of asking for it, they take all their depression and anger out on other humans and that's wrong. I'm still immensely well-informed. Here’s the Bad News. Bad news for Justin Thomas. Get the latest BBC News from the Middle East: breaking news, features, analysis and debate plus audio and video coverage from across the Middle East. Thought creates. Pastor Don Jones. What’s becoming of this world? If he doesn't back down, World War 3 could start at any time! Here are four ways we can look at all the bad things happening in the world, and still have peace of mind. Jake, you are certainly aware of the incidents of mass hysteria in the past. Already dismissed by experts, there's NO truth or proof. News outlets in the rest of the world, too, became gloomier and gloomier from the late 1970s to the present day. For a commie, you're OK.....  ; ). Kind of an insult to anyone affected by the fires.Shameful, instead of assisting those in need of help, people come up with nonsensical theories and gossip about it. I kinda agree, not every single person is dying from the virus and plenty of people have been recovered from it, but does this need it’s own item on here?Also, take a look at the numbers of infections, recoveries and deaths. I'm glad 2020 had a happy ending for now. Can't the U.S. realize that Donald Dump has silently murdered over 200,000 people due to his negligence towards COVID-19!? I'm sure. But sometimes bad news can be unintentionally hilarious. To paraphrase that old '60's witticism, "What if the media threw a culture war and no one came?" I agree with Jake, there are bigger problems than our feeling negativity that are melting right now, we have a leader that cannot be trusted and yet he has the nuclear codes and is damaging this country for years into the future. Make the media afraid of demonizing that man, like in the UK with Mark Duggan, due to intolerance normalized by Farage. This matters, because research shows us that what we see on the news can significantly impact our mental health. My liberal Jewish female atty friend truly thinks Trump is gonna bring back the ovens. Puerto Rico is having a very terrible time from the past three years. It’s a very unhappy new year for Japan’s political and economic leaders — and maybe for the rest of us. You'll see the world differently. Understanding how you are being made angry and sad by news that is not happening to is a mental health technique. One of the best things I've read. Instead what we have is evermore anger, shrillness and demonization. The one thing I have noticed is more societal depression and anger than I have ever seen and I'm old. Along the way, the four horsemen of the apocalypse are galloping through the world. People are constantly on war footing mentally. Most Depressing Stories – Current News summaries, breaking stories, photos and information about Most Depressing Stories. THAT WAS 1 OR 2 WEEKS AFTER !Seriously does everyone littarly think that he's the God of the blacks (Not trying to be racist) and people are harassing the government and trying to break in to the white house because of a single death this has gotta be the most overrated event of the 21st century . A 9 month old infant was beaten up to death by a man in Chicago. An 11 year old.Then again, in 2000, a 6 year old shot a fellow classmate. You won't be any less a good citizen. Compiled by Bored Panda, the list serves as a helpful reminder of why something as simple as a layout could turn even the saddest stories into something you can't help but laugh about. People got injured and died because of this. Screw all the numbnut politicians and people in our government that try to make the coronavirus look like a scary thing when it's really not, they are just trying to control the population with fear and sadly it seems to be working for them. This was shocking as it was in Canada of all places. I knew of everything mentioned in this article, but still, The Cold War's fears of nukes never came to be. People, despite their political divisions, are nowhere near the scale of hate and vitriol of the 60s. The only thing I cannot tell you is the latest "outrage" (by Trump or Obama or Hillary or a Kardashian...)....and that's a wonderful thing because in a week that "outrage" will be forgotten and replaced by the next one. This should be above the YouTube update which isn't something that would take or ruin peoples lives. Lebanon has gone through so much already. When Kobe and Gigi passed away I screamed and felt like my world was over which in my eyes it was I miss them like crazy but I know they are in The Kingdom of Heaven with God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit and the many others who passed away they are Angels now making game winners in Heaven. It simply makes us less happy and more emotionally distant. All the anti-American and anti-Trump sentiment was honestly crazy. The fears of Climate Chane and rising violence have already happened, we already had the Syrian Civil-War. Climate change has to stop for this to end. I am sick of turning on the TV and seeing Boris Johnson giving daily briefings and the usual crap, "You must stay at home, because that is the only way that we are going to... blah blah blah". To start reducing the detrimental effects of negativity bias, limit your consumption of negativity at the source. The most honest question you can ask, is "Can I be wrong?". Watch, read, or listen to the news, and you’re likely to come away believing that the world is rapidly descending into disaster and chaos, even though many aspects of life have improved dramatically over the last few decades. There’s good and bad news for immigrants waiting to take steps toward naturalization Miami Herald Sat., January 2, 2021 3:23 p.m. | Saturday, January 2, 2021 3:23 p.m. But in the modern world, our preference for the negative has been harnessed to keep our attention. - SpectralOwl. The whole explosion turned Beirut into a rubble making it look like a warzone. JUST an 11 year old did all THAT? Either consomme or question. As a teen, I went through Detroit on an escorted bus while it was still burning and the National Guard, arms drawn, enforced a curfew. Trump does his usual antics. We feel part of something bigger reading/seeing/listening to a certain flavor of product,er, news. YouTube was violated $170M by the FTC about its age target, so changes were made, therefore content made for kids would have meany common features (like comments & sharing) disabled & while the features were used in the videos not made for kids. Protests are what's needed, not riots. tom. In reality tho, it's not news;  people are just getting their indignation fix; moral superiority fix; feeling part of a tribe fix; NPR-makes-me-feel-erudite fix; whatever. Sitting behind a keyboard and liking or even sharing things is not doing much, but rather people need to act, and act with purpose and principle and realize that outcomes our largely out of our hands relatively when compared to the efforts and intentions behind those efforts that we are in control of and which can lead to change as just as negative news and realities impact people, so does positive. All of these are direct results of a lack of national strategic planning by Trump and his administration. We help where we can, but there are things you can change and things you cannot. As a more general intervention, asking, “How could I be wrong?” is a fantastic way to build this questioning tactic into your daily routine. THE EVIDENCE IS EVERYWHERE AND YOU DO NOT NEED TELEVISION NEWS BUT ACTUAL ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTS. It basically felt like hell. It will not happen without the fallout of several more people contracting the disease and spreading it to others. Yes, Dr. Perlmutter, thank you for your thought provoking article. Ready To Love: Last Resort is a famous dating TV series that is recently in the news for its latest teaser that appeared at the end of the last episode. I’m not saying people shouldn’t worry, but not everyone who is affected is considered to die. Similar advice as the author. For in Christ, “God was reconciling the world to himself,” making all things new again (2 Corinthians 5:17). A report … As long as there are humans, there will be problems and strife, but the world doesn't stop. It is not fair. The KKK is emboldened and on the rise. Work with what you gots. Accept that there are things you can't and be wise enough to know the difference. 12 Common Biases That Affect How We Make Everyday Decisions. Menopause or Aging? For sure in Florida, and probably elsewhere as well. Their jones became ours. Only the headlined alarmist rhetoric can make it seem worse. These riots have gone too far. I wish people could just stop doing thing like this and before they do, think what would you do. It sucks when you're trying to find cursed commercials to save to a playlist but you can't save kids videos to a playlist, also, some YTP videos get marked as for kids so when you're watching ytp youtube starts recommending Peppa pig videos instead of YTP. That the only competing voices are those becoming ever-shriller in order to stand out and advance. Kobe and Gianna’s passing affected me so much Kobe was always my 2nd favorite basketball player even though I never really knew it. Not being able to return back to your job(s)? You know when the aftermath of a man's death is higher than the man's death himself, you know the man's family got a huge impact.One man's death is another man's riot. I believe mostly older people and people who are more sensitive than other people for viruses have a higher chance to die by it. Apparently better than COPPA and Trump being acquitted. Sports are not "essential". We have the fire and now flooding and people don’t know what to do. The way bad news is piling up, greater easing looks the most appropriate route. Bad news is bad. Or Rush Limbaugh. RIP George Floyd and I deeply hope that his family makes it through this rough period in their lives. I think this coronavirus has been about controlling the people all along. Your 'break the cycle' only seems to be asking people to ignore and little is offered in terms of our to meaningfully counter the negative narrative. This should be much higher. Everything Coppa is just a headache. Don't worry. These examples are, of course, influenced by whatever you were most recently paying attention to, as well as the things you pay attention to the most. He will definitely be missed as he was an amazing child. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. The teaser gave some hint about some bad news on … The most important is, Jesus is my Savior and Lord and it is He who will never leave nor forsake me. When Daniel and most of Judah were taken into captivity, Daniel understood that it was the will of … This needs to be in the Top 3. Just the worst. You weren't "making a difference" by reading the NYT or listening to NPR. ...you're not paying attention, goes the old liberal bumper sticker. Maybe see other sides of your neighbor who is not part of your tribe, and realize you can build a relationship with him based on those things. Negativity bias refers to the fact that humans focus on negative events, information, or emotions more than their positive counterparts. I honestly still don't understand how this got WAY bigger than previous ones, but I know to myself that Black Lives Matter. People actually believe there will be football this fall. Finally, due to confirmation bias, we’re more likely to seek out information that supports our idea of the world as a terrible place, and simultaneously reject information stating otherwise. Damn, that’s just sickening and sad. Not being able to see loved ones? That's why you need to social distance and wear masks. YouTube used to be a great place before COPPA turned it into cable television. Thomas Valva, an 8-year-old boy from Long Island, New York, died of hypothermia on January 17th after he was forced to sleep in an unheated garage on a night the temperature dropped to 19 °F. I know people are emotional about Floyd's death, but this is crossing lines here. In conclusion, 2020 is the worst year of the 21st century. This president didn't do that and now all of America is paying the price. I love them so much and the passing is by far the worst day of my life I mourned and still mourning their deaths more than any other family members they meant so much to me it’s been 7 weeks and every time I see a video and get reminded of it I still tear up and cry I miss hearing their voices, seeing them and knowing they are there physically but spiritually they will always be there for us I love them forever pass my last breath to Kobe and Gianna Until We Meet Again. People need reform, need cops afraid to kneel on a mans neck, shoot unarmed black men. The Constitution doesn't explicitly say so, but the context in which it was written holds some clues. But still. More than 100s died and thousands are injured. This is why I hate senseless violence, it just disgusts me. A trial for a 2005 assassination (which may have caused political unrest? The mishandling of this virus will and should cost him the election in November. Except, in the interim, I wasn't outraged. Do I have to make a new account and return just to rant about this goddamn year? Looting is not really activism, just destroying businesses. While negative news may influence our thinking through multiple mechanisms, one important consideration is how it interfaces with our cognitive biases, keeping our focus on everything that’s going wrong while blinding us to all the good things around us. So if you just watched a news report on local robberies, and then were asked about problems in your town, you might say that robberies were a major issue, even if they were, in general, very uncommon. Your brain will selectively focus on the information that helps your preexisting theory, ignoring conflicting facts. Read the latest feel good news today with stories to inspire you. Try to change things you can. But at the same time, we should also cut down on assumptions and act calmly. Coronavirus is basically just the flu, it kills about the same amount of people that the flu would and the fact that people are trying to make it look like it's a deadly disease is kinda sickening. Let's all choose to be positive agents of change and let it begin with me. Especially when they do it for no reason at all. You've let yourself become a victim of a current one. What I see with my liberal neighbors, because of this non-stop cacophony of bitterness and "those evil people are winning" is a form of PTSD, or battle fatigue or whatever. We have seen so many draconian laws being put in place. I enjoyed the week between outrages. Naples resident Luca Trapanese had long wanted to adopt a child, but that presented problems for a gay, single man in Italy. Luke 2:8-20. I’m speaking this for the United States, Italy, and every other nation forced to cancel all their events. The firefight concert in Sydney raised so much money and was a example of Australians coming together. This is an unheard of method of police brutality and racism, which needs to stop soon if we're to progress in society.RIP George Perry Floyd, you'll be in the world's hearts and minds forever. God’s Sovereignty. This helps explain why the news consistently emphasizes stories on the worst things happening in the world, both on the global (wars) and the local levels (robberies). ), government dissent, economic crises, and the COVID pandemic. So many animals died too. The next election is all set up to be manipulated more directly than the prior one, giving us another four years of evil leadership. The real strife of the present doesn't directly affect most Americans and that probably includes you. When these three biases are combined, we can see how we become predisposed to seek out, overstate, and cement negativity into place. Introduction. There is a big difference between the total cases and deaths. News: Are We Getting Informed or Just Getting Upset? I see most of the frustration with negative news comes from accepting the interpretation accepting as true, things in which one has no personal expertise. Rioting won't help and it will only make things worse. ...SEEMS TO BE WHAT YOUR SUGGESTING AND ITS REALLY WRONG. The Gender Gap in Negotiation May Start Very Young, An Attitude of Gratitude: Why Saying "I Am Grateful" Matters, AI Gains Social Intelligence; Infers Goals and Failed Plans, Rissian Bot Nets Count On Our Unwillingness to Be Neutral, Russian Bot Nets Count On Our Unwillingness to Be Neutral. On a larger scale, if you believe the world is a horrible place, confirmation bias means you’ll be looking out for proof that this is true while making it harder to hear perspectives that suggest the contrary. People combating negative news with positive action will be a strong means to actually protect their mental health and overall well being. I don't know, the Pentagon is saying that on top of the all the issues of things dying, fires, and the climate being terrible... We're going to have people fighting over water and food supplies in The Third World. : ), Merry Christmas to you and yours. The government has been telling us what we can and can't do. We look for negative media, and news organizations—in a desire to maintain attention and viewership—emphasize negative stories. Millions of cases, hundreds of thousands of deaths (at the time of writing), billions affected. If you were mostly confirming what you already believed, it probably wasn’t that helpful of an experience. Why is everything a spin off about politics? Here are three specific cognitive biases that are activated by negative news to keep us in a state of negativity and how to start making changes to break the cycle. I will always be proud to be an American, but it is embarrassing to have an idiot in the White House at this time. Direct your energies towards things upon which you can make a difference. This makes it all the more important to create strategies to lower the negative impact of this bias on our thinking. We are living through the exponential phase of a mass extinction that's going to snuff out most life on the planet. Definitely one of the worst days in 2020 and history. You are completely missing the article's message. At first, none of the people in Beirut reacted quite strongly until a few days later. Good News Stories From Around the World That Will Brighten Your Day. Humanity has lived through much worse. The problem isn’t just that there are terrible things happening around the world. Now this, which also destroyed their food supply. The riots caused by this aren't making things better though. I suggest that you you read it again and this time take the advice, "How could I be wrong?". President-elect Joe Biden experiences an unprecedented march to the White House. The consequences of negative news are themselves negative. 2 dead at a school shooting in Torreón, Mexico. It was once stated those violating the law would receive a $42,530 fine per video & that no new channels/content would be allowed. - Stakamakataka, RIP to those involved in the shooting, especially Heidi and Emily :(. Sports are more of a "want" than a "need". And I swear if I saw people voting for stuff related to Trump, Youtube or anything else rather than tragedies like these, I'll lose it. Add politics and misinformation and now we have chaos.This TOTALLY deserves #1, since all the lockdowns, restrictions, economic downturn, closings, etc. *Facepalm* It's NOT arson. Say their names. 1. Systematic racism against black men needs to end. And again! I can't imagine how cold he was I can barely stand 35 degrees, Top 10 Best Things that Have Happened in 2021, Countries With the Most COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Cases. 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