Buffering the effects of bad news: Exposure to others’ kindness alleviates the aversive effects of viewing others’ acts of immorality (IMAGE)

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Buffering the effects of bad news: Exposure to others’ kindness alleviates the aversive effects of viewing others’ acts of immorality

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News stories featuring the best of humanity take the sting out of items exploring the worst of humanity.

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Suzy Hazelwood, Pexels, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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