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How language shows we're biased toward positivity

The Pollyanna principle is our tendency to use positive words more than negative terms. This theory is the basis of a massive new study where researchers went through 100 billion Tweets, millions of books, news articles and movies and found our language is largely positive. New York Times science columnist John Tierney joins "CBS This Morning" to explore this groundbreaking study.
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