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Positive-Negative Asymmetry in Evaluations: The Distinction Between Affective and Informational Negativity Effects

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The distinction between affective and informational negativity effects in evaluations was discussed in this paper, where Positive-Negative Asymmetry in Evaluations: The Distinction Between Affective and Informational Negativity Effects.
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(1990). Positive-Negative Asymmetry in Evaluations: The Distinction Between Affective and Informational Negativity Effects. European Review of Social Psychology: Vol. 1, European Review of Social Psychology, pp. 33-60.

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Bad is Stronger than Good

TL;DR: The authors found that bad is stronger than good, as a general principle across a broad range of psychological phenomena, such as bad emotions, bad parents, bad feedback, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good.

Bad is stronger than good

TL;DR: This paper found that bad is stronger than good, as a general principle across a broad range of psychological phenomena, such as bad emotions, bad parents, bad feedback, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good.
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Negativity Bias, Negativity Dominance, and Contagion

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All Frames Are Not Created Equal: A Typology and Critical Analysis of Framing Effects

TL;DR: A broader perspective, focused on the cognitive and motivational consequences of valence-based encoding, opens the door to a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of framing effects.
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Asymmetrical effects of positive and negative events: The mobilization-minimization hypothesis.

TL;DR: It is concluded that no single theoretical mechanism can explain the mobilization-minimization pattern, but that a family of integrated process models, encompassing different classes of responses, may account for this pattern of parallel but disparately caused effects.
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Prospect theory: an analysis of decision under risk

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a critique of expected utility theory as a descriptive model of decision making under risk, and develop an alternative model, called prospect theory, in which value is assigned to gains and losses rather than to final assets and in which probabilities are replaced by decision weights.
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