Why do people always want to hear the bad news first?
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You know when someone says that they need to tell you something and it involves good and bad news, they ask which one you’d like to hear first. I’ve noticed that most of the time, people want to hear the bad news first instead of the good news.
Why is that?
Because then they will not be just thinking about what kind of bad news you have to tell them and they can enjoy the good news more.
Comments (51)
cause bad news will ruin the good news for you, but good news can make bad news seem not that bad
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because its better to get the bad part out of the way, but sometimes the good news is even worse..lol
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It will cheer them up if they hear the good new after the bad news.
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to get rid of the anxiousness
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The good news makes the bad news not as bad?
Or the bad news ruins the good news if it is said after.
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Saving the best for last. Once the talk is done, they don’t want to leave a bad taste in their minds. They want to remember the good news more than the bad.
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So the good news will be the "pick up"…it’ll make them feel a bit better after being hit with the bad news
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so that they can be relieved with the good news in the end.
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too feel better after hearing the good news, basically to balance it out
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It gets it out of the way so the good news seems even better. The good news is a little bit of a relief.
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So the good news at the end will lighten up the bad news.
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the good news will soften the blow of the bad news..u dont wanna be up then knocked right back down
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Because the good news leaves you in a happy mood when they are done
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Because then the good news can possibly be better or make the bad news not bad anymore.
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Save the best for last.
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reverse phycology i guess.
i always want to just get the bad news over with FIRST so then after i can easy forget about that and take the good news.
idk that i just how I am about that kind of thing.
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Because the good news makes you a little more optimistic after hearing the bad news.
As opposed to feeling like bittersweet because your good news was ruined.
It shouldn’t make any difference, but perception is 90% of everything.
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Because then they will not be just thinking about what kind of bad news you have to tell them and they can enjoy the good news more.
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Because they are hoping that the Good News will triumph over the Bad News, and make the bad news sound like less of a problem…or at least..that’s why I do it!
Hope this helped! 
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so after the bad news the good news will cheer them up
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because then the good news cheers you up lol
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It’s always better to get it over with. It can only get better from there…
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because the good news cheers you up after you hear the bad news!
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After bad news, you can look up to a brighter side…
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because after hearing the bad news the good news may cheer you up rather to hearing the good news and the bad news letting you down
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Maybe when they get the bad news they are sad, but when they gt the good news they can be happy again, if it was the other way around it would go good news from already being happy to bad new to being sad for the rest of the day.
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Because the good news will make them feel better after they hear the bad news
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because it makes the good news better,
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because, they want to be cheered up, after they hear the bad thing by the good thing. instead of being made feel bad after they hear the good thing?
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because they get to hear devastating news that may kill something inside of them and then they hear the good news that brings a smile to their face.
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to get it over with
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pure knowledge
Because hopefully the good news with override the bad news.
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I think a lot of people do it so the good news can cheer them up like
ex;
Your girlfriend cheated on you.
good news. She died. lmfao, well you see what I mean. lol
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get the bad part out of the way to hear the good
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because after they hear bad news the good news will make them feel better
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because the good news after words makes things better : )
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Because if you hear the good news first and then the bad news it would ruin the good news .. You’ll forget all about the good news.
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so the good news can somehow take away the bad thing/feeling that the bad news has brought to him/her
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you ever heard of that old saying the best is only yet to come……
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So that the good news cheers them up afterwards. =)
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To get the negative stuff out the way and hte last thing they hear/remember will be something positive.
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so there’s something good out of it in the end.
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So that the good news can make the bad news seem a bit better than if you presented the bad news last.
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I’m guessing (This is why I would) it’s because whichever one they hear second, they’d pay more attention to, so they want to get the bad part out of the way first.
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It makes some ppl feel better about their own life!
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any positiveness that would come from the good news would be immediately crushed by the bad news. plus i guess it just feels better to hear something good after you have been let down. and if the person told u the good news and you werent impressed, where do they go from there? good question tho that is interesting
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The reason for this is because the bad news maybe bad so they want to hear it first and usually most of the time the good news has something to do with he bad news to turn it around
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If something is good, then it doesn’t need fixing or immediate attention. However, If something is going bad then it may need to be addressed as soon as possible, and is wanted to be heard first.
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When you hear the bad news you wanna hear what you did not expect. Most likely the the good news is easy to cope with if you expect it or not. I like hearing the bad news first because I would like to hear that problem first and the good news can become secondary because im sure its nothing that is strenuous or not easily hard to accpet.
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Because when her the bad news you’ll be mad , & the good news will cheer you up
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