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  {
    "id": "CDS8TTRN",
    "type": "article-journal",
    "abstract": "Abstract\r\n            \r\n              The negativity bias favours the cultural diffusion of negative beliefs, yet many common (mis)beliefs—naturopathy works, there's a heaven—are positive. Why? People might share ‘happy thoughts’—beliefs that might make others happy—to display their kindness. Five experiments conducted among Japanese and English‐speaking participants (\r\n              N\r\n               = 2412) show that: (i) people higher on communion are more likely to believe and share happier beliefs, by contrast with people higher in competence and dominance; (ii) when they want to appear nice and kind, rather than competent and dominant, people avoid sharing sad beliefs, and instead prefer sharing happy beliefs; (iii) sharing happier beliefs instead of sad beliefs leads to being perceived as nicer and kinder; and (iv) sharing happy beliefs instead of sad beliefs fleads to being perceived as less dominant. Happy beliefs could spread, despite a general negativity bias, because they allow their senders to signal kindness.",
    "container-title": "British Journal of Social Psychology",
    "DOI": "10.1111/bjso.12650",
    "ISSN": "0144-6665, 2044-8309",
    "issue": "4",
    "journalAbbreviation": "British J Social Psychol",
    "language": "en",
    "page": "1672-1692",
    "source": "DOI.org (Crossref)",
    "title": "Happy thoughts: The role of communion in accepting and sharing (mis)beliefs",
    "title-short": "Happy thoughts",
    "URL": "https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso.12650",
    "volume": "62",
    "author": [
      {
        "family": "Altay",
        "given": "Sacha"
      },
      {
        "family": "Majima",
        "given": "Yoshimasa"
      },
      {
        "family": "Mercier",
        "given": "Hugo"
      }
    ],
    "accessed": {
      "date-parts": [
        [
          "2024",
          11,
          22
        ]
      ]
    },
    "issued": {
      "date-parts": [
        [
          "2023",
          10
        ]
      ]
    }
  }
]