Reading the comments left by "trolls" can affect your ability to reason Bashny.Net

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Even if you do not participate in an online war and do not leave angry comments, the mere reading of them can affect your ability to make rational decisions.

Researchers from George Mason University in 1183 interviewed people who had read an article about the benefits and risks of nanotechnology. Also, they should have read the comments on the article, one group of subjects read ordinary democratic comments, and the other group - sarcastic or angry.

Subjects themselves are not allowed to comment - their task was to express its position on the issue discussed in the paper. Those who read the angry comments were more likely to maintain a hot or, on the contrary, to condemn nanotechnology. And those people who read comments democratic, were not as harsh in his judgments on this issue.

Scientists have concluded that the words or the opinions of others exert a strong influence on what we think we are, and when people bring really passionate and irrational arguments, then we fall into this trap and react to anything the same way as ourselves " Trolls ».

via factroom.ru