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

And I imagine that's the main point of the uh the research here. voice-verified

But also you can imagine it being very uh a very interesting topic for individuals buying uh advertisement time on, say, a twenty-four hour news network. voice-verified

Um, you know, especially if they're voice-verified

Say if they they want to have an advertisement for some sort of adventure travel or something of that nature, you know? voice-verified

Um bungee cords, I don't know, whatever you're you happen to be selling. voice-verified

So in this particular study, one group was exposed to negative news, and in this case it was like news about a car crash, and the other group was exposed to neutral news. voice-verified

So not great news, not good news, not like a real fluff piece, but just something about train schedules. voice-verified

Oh something nice and boring and maybe it's a little interesting. voice-verified

And they found that although participants who watched negative news reported a significant increase in negative effect, they did not differ from the neutral news group in their risk or ambiguity preferences. voice-verified

Right, right. voice-verified

So I don't think it means go ahead and consume all the negative news you want, it's not gonna impact you. voice-verified

Like no it it it can and will impact you. voice-verified

But what the study seems to be suggesting rather is that like sort of incidental or realistic um uh consumption of negative news is that that exposure is not going to be enough of a force in and of itself to move the scale and actually. voice-verified

actually impact your decision making process. voice-verified

Again, on the whole, this is this would be a generalization. voice-verified

And again, it's ba based on you know smaller study. voice-verified

And there's so many factors on top of this that you could uh throw into the scenario. voice-verified

But both groups were equally likely to choose a certain gamble over an ambiguous one following the consump consumption of their media. voice-verified

No, no, no. voice-verified

But my understanding is that the basically the normal voice-verified

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