The first step to change: Focusing on the negative
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 14:00
in Psychology & Sociology
If you want people to change the current system, or status quo, first you have to get them to notice whats wrong with it. Thats the idea behind a new study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, which finds that people pay attention to negative information about the system when they believe the status quo can change.