Rob Lamb

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7,886 appearances 32 recordings 4 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard yesterday

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind · From the Vault: The Devil You Know, Part 2 · 26 Sep 2026 podcast

I've very rarely altered travel plans due to something I saw in the news, but I'll be the first to admit that news items can rattle my resolve a bit, you know, they can make me more anxious. voice-verified

So I would have guessed, yeah, negative news can surely push one away from risk, away from ambiguity, and back into the familiar, and more to the point, might be likely to do so on the whole. voice-verified

Yeah, yeah. voice-verified

Uh you know, it we can it we we also have to have to uh acknowledge that news reporting can can certainly change the perceived um odds of something happening. voice-verified

Like if you were to watch a news network, a hypothetical news network network that was just twenty four hours coverage of snake bites, that's all they covered. voice-verified

Um anytime anywhere in the world someone is bitten by a snake, they are there to cover it in full. voice-verified

Uh this would maybe give you a um certainly a heightened awareness of maybe the legitimate risks of snake bite, but also maybe an an inflated feeling about your personal risks of snake bite. voice-verified

But but anyway, mostly what we're dealing here with with is is the effect here. voice-verified

So uh a recent study from um uh Adelphi University looked into this. voice-verified

It was published in Frontiers and Psychology and titled Negative News Exposure Does Not Affect Risk or Ambiguity Aversion. voice-verified

Uh so their answer is pretty much in the headline there, as is often the case. voice-verified

Now, this is another one of those small studies. voice-verified

I believe the working uh the they worked with groups here of like 84 and 229. voice-verified

So, you know, as always, more research is required. voice-verified

Um, this is not something you can just take to the bank, but it's an interesting possibility. voice-verified

The authors point out that while studies have found that negative effect can increase risk aversion and ambiguity aversion, we didn't know if quote, these effects j uh generalize to more realistic negative stimuli, such as watching the news. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And you can see why this would be something worth knowing. voice-verified

I mean, not not only from a general standpoint of understanding, you know, um how people make choices uh based on their mood and what influences their mood. voice-verified

That's certainly valid. voice-verified

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