Do people prefer to pass along good or bad news? Valence and relevance of news as predictors of transmission propensity

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People prefer to pass along news that is low on the surprise scale whether the piece of news is good or bad. However, they would also pass along a piece of an extremely good or bad news depending on the emotional content of the topic under discussion. When the emotional valence is negative, they pass on bad news no matter how exaggeratedly negative it is. On the other hand, when the emotional valence is positive, they share exaggeratedly good news.

Information Analysis NEC, Social aspects, Information technology, Communication, Communications, Information management, Collective behavior

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Illusion, disillusion, and the buffering effect of groups

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Group activity has been found to cause the enthusiasm effect or greater mean levels of positive effect among members. It also serves the buffering effect or the link between performance evaluations and negative effect. Experiments show that positive illusions related to performance of tasks may be maladaptive because they make members too sensitive to feedback instead of making them confident and neglectful of their feedback environment.

Research, Analysis, Usage, Work groups, Teamwork (Workplace), Organizational behavior, Industrial psychology, Industrial-organizational psychology

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