📚 3 Books mentioned in "Why Is U.S. Media So Negative? | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 477" of Freakonomics Radio

and thanks to Erica ocran whose latest book is called highly irregular why tough through and do don't rhyme and other Oddities of the English language

The host thanks Erica Ocrant and explicitly names her latest book.

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because one of the most famous lines in literature is the first sentence of Anna Karenina by Tolstoy happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

The host quotes the first line of the book and attributes it to the author Tolstoy.

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the social psychologist Roy bowmeister calls it the power of bad

The host introduces the concept of negativity bias and mentions that social psychologist Roy Baumeister calls it 'the power of bad'.

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