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Why Political Anxiety Creates Compulsive Information Seeking

I cannot stop checking election polls and prediction sites even though they make me anxious and I know they don't really mean anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The illusion of control through information gathering becomes a form of mental self-harm.

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