From: The Times of India
Focusing on negatives helps catalyse change
November 16, 2011
The Times of India:
If you want people to change, you have to get them to notice what is wrong with existing norms.
That’s the idea on which a new study, ‘Why people pay attention to negative information about the system when they believe it can be changed for the better’, is based.
“Take America’s educational system. You could find some flaws in that,” says India Johnson, graduate student at Ohio State University, who co-authored the study with Kentaro Fujita, a professor at the university, the Psychological Science journal reports.
“But we have to live with it every day, so people tend to focus on the positive and reinforce the system,” says Johnson, a university statement said.
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