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10. Why do we doomscroll?

Why Do We Do That?

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The Doomscrolling Habit

In 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary added doomscrolling and named it a word of the year. Study after study shows that we focus on the negative more than the positive. Negative stuff lives rent-free in our brains more than positive stuff. It's basically a survival mechanism.

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