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Can evil spread?
“If it bleeds, it leads” is an old newspaper industry saying. The assumption is that bad news is more interesting and sells more newspapers and attracts more TV viewers than good news. Sociologists have long noted this attraction to bad news, a tendency that is one element of what psychologists term negativity bias.
But today it goes even further. With the graphic and detailed depictions of events such as mass shootings and the attempt to storm the United States Capitol Building, there seems to be a multiplier effect resulting in widespread copycat acts.
Is it possible for evil to spread?
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