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A group of Israeli psychologists found that the influence negative information on the human psyche decreases with repeated collision. According to one of the authors, it can be transferred to reading newspaper news. Details with reference to published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics study leads official site of the University of Tel Aviv. Experiments conducted by scientists, were based on the so-called emotional the Stroop effect. This effect is manifested when a person passes Stroop test: in this test you must correctly name the color that one or another word is typed. In the version that used Israeli group, the words were neutral (“bench” or “street”) and negative (“wounded”, “terrorist act”), and previous studies have shown that most subjects spend it takes more time to determine the color of negative words. Psychologists decided to check if the effect disappears if a person spend more time on the test with “negative” cards. Series experiences differing in the number of cards and the number of attempts, showed the correctness of this assumption: if a person is long while he reads negative words, then he starts over time to cope with the test no worse than those who got a neutral material. When scientists repeated the experiment with another group volunteers and invited participants to evaluate their mood before and after the experiment, they discovered two additional effects. Firstly, passing the Stroop test from only negative words after the same neutral test, really a little (but in sufficient for a statistically significant result) spoiled the mood of the subjects. Secondly, a lengthy test no longer affected participants ’mood: scientists also interpret this fact in benefit of your hypothesis. Moshe Shay Ben-Haim, one of the authors research, notes the possibility of transferring the results to read the news. “If in the morning you saw a headline in the newspaper about an explosion or some other tragedy, it’s better to read the article by exposing yourself to negative information, it’s will free you for a day and reduce the negative effect of the news, ” cites Tel Aviv University press service recommendation psychologist. The scientists themselves in their work focus on another aspect: according to them, the Stroop test is actively used in various research, as well as for diagnostic purposes. If emotional the effect of negative words decreases when reading a large the number of such cards, then this can distort the results. Scientists believe that the order of presentation of cards and their number required to be considered separately. Difficulty playing the results of psychological experiments have already forced scientific community talk about a “reproducibility crisis” that can threaten psychological science in general. To solve this problem efforts are being made in several directions: in particular, It is proposed to tighten the statistical criteria by which Unreliable results are screened out. In addition, 13 different experiments, from classic economic games to relatively new, recently tried to reproduce immediately 36 different scientific groups: preliminary data, in 10 cases out of 13 previously declared effects really confirmed.
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