Christine Korn

Christine Korn

Christine Korn is a doctoral researcher at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, where she also teaches in the department of communication’s master’s programme in corporate communication. Her research focuses on employee communication and crisis communication.

I heard the news today, oh boy

How does bad news affect employees and what does it mean for internal communication?

Sabine Einwiller, Christine Korn

Posted: 01 June 2015

The fact that bad news is more attention-grabbing than good news is old news. Evolutionary psychology teaches us that this is a result of human survival instinct: ignoring a dramatic event could negatively affect a person’s health or existence...