We’re excited to share that our work on media selection and the negativity bias will be featured at the 2025 Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)!

Lab member Rachael Kee will present findings from a behavioral and neuroimaging study examining how negatively valenced, high-arousal news headlines affect both what people choose to read and how quickly they make those choices. The project builds on decision science and affective neuroscience to better understand how emotional content shapes everyday media behavior.

Join Rachael at APS 2025 to learn more about how the negativity bias operates in the brain—and why we’re often drawn to the most emotionally intense stories. Find us at Poster Session XI during APS 2025 in Washington DC on Sunday, May 25, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET.

Download the full poster, here.