Medical Xpress August 12, 2024
It’s no secret that the news has been full of doom and gloom. Algorithms have made doomscrolling, the act of consuming large amounts of dire content, all the easier because the more you look at a type of content, the more it is fed to your channels.
But a new counter to doomscrolling is on the rise. It’s called “hope scrolling,” or as one expert calls it, “kindness scrolling.”
Kim Penberthy is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. She was named Virginia Psychologist of the Year last April.
Penberthy spoke with UVA Today about hope scrolling and its benefits. She said humans are hardwired to “attend to negative stimulus.” Hope scrolling,...
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