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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2171" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200512-how-the-news-changes-the-way-we-think-and-behave" target="_blank"><strong>How the news changes the way we think and behave - BBC</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>The latest research suggests that the news can shape us in surprising ways – from our perception of risk to the content of our dreams, to our chances of having a heart attack. </strong></p><p></p><p>Alison Holman was working on a fairly ordinary study of mental health across the United States. Then tragedy struck.</p><p></p><p>On 15 April 2013, as hundreds of runners streaked past the finish line at the annual Boston Marathon, two bombs exploded, ten seconds apart. Three people were killed that day, including an eight-year-old boy. Hundreds were injured. Sixteen people lost limbs.</p><p></p><p>As the world mourned the tragedy, news organisations embarked upon months – years, if you count the trial – of graphic coverage. Footage of the moment of detonation, and the ensuing confusion and smoke, were broadcast repeatedly. Newspapers were strewn with haunting images: blood-spattered streets, grieving spectators and visibly shaken victims whose clothing had been torn from their bodies.</p><p></p><p>And so it happened that Holman and colleagues from the University of California, Irvine, found themselves in the midst of a national crisis, sitting on data about the mental wellbeing of nearly 5,000 people just before it happened. They decided to find out if that had changed in the weeks afterwards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2171, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200512-how-the-news-changes-the-way-we-think-and-behave'][B]How the news changes the way we think and behave - BBC[/B][/URL] [B]The latest research suggests that the news can shape us in surprising ways – from our perception of risk to the content of our dreams, to our chances of having a heart attack. [/B] Alison Holman was working on a fairly ordinary study of mental health across the United States. Then tragedy struck. On 15 April 2013, as hundreds of runners streaked past the finish line at the annual Boston Marathon, two bombs exploded, ten seconds apart. Three people were killed that day, including an eight-year-old boy. Hundreds were injured. Sixteen people lost limbs. As the world mourned the tragedy, news organisations embarked upon months – years, if you count the trial – of graphic coverage. Footage of the moment of detonation, and the ensuing confusion and smoke, were broadcast repeatedly. Newspapers were strewn with haunting images: blood-spattered streets, grieving spectators and visibly shaken victims whose clothing had been torn from their bodies. And so it happened that Holman and colleagues from the University of California, Irvine, found themselves in the midst of a national crisis, sitting on data about the mental wellbeing of nearly 5,000 people just before it happened. They decided to find out if that had changed in the weeks afterwards. [/QUOTE]
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