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SUBMITTER: Robertson CE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10202797 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Robertson Claire E CE Pröllochs Nicolas N Schwarzenegger Kaoru K Pärnamets Philip P Van Bavel Jay J JJ Feuerriegel Stefan S
Nature human behaviour 20230316 5
Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions, hence raising the question of what drives online news consumption. Here we analyse the causal effect of negative and emotional words on news consumption using a large online dataset of viral news stories. Specifically, we conducted our analyses using a series of randomized controlled trials (N = 22,743). Our dataset comprises ~105,000 different variations of news stories from Upworthy.com that generated ∼5.7 million clicks ...[more]