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13. This is really primal stuff - Ritsaart Reimann
Episode 13
There’s been a drum beat, suggesting that social media and information silos, echo chambers, are a driving force behind our divisiveness and polariza…
3 years, 2 months ago
12. Not everybody wants to talk to a sexologist, yet everybody has sex - Tiffynee Terry-Thomas
Episode 12
Some scientists have made the analogy that our left / right politics in the United States are like a toxic marriage. In this episode, we lean into th…
3 years, 3 months ago
BONUS - ChatGPT vs. Human Political Persuasion - Hui Bai
In this BONUS episode, we speak with researcher (Max) Hui Bai of the Stanford Impact Labs. about his recent recent study looking into the effectivene…
3 years, 3 months ago
11. The neuroscience of outrage porn - Alex Korb - Part Two
Episode 11
Part two of our two-part series with Dr. Alex Korb, a neuroscientist, researcher, professor, and best-selling author of “The Upward Spiral: Using Neu…
3 years, 3 months ago
10. The neuroscience of outrage porn - Alex Korb - Part One
Episode 10
On this episode of the Outrage Overload podcast, we’re going to learn what’s going on in our brain when we’re confronted with outrage porn and ways t…
3 years, 4 months ago
BONUS - The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Shattered Trust in Science and Fueled Outrage - Kevin Bass
I speak with Kevin Bass, an M.D./Ph.D. student, who recently wrote an opinion piece for Newsweek titled It’s Time for the Scientific Community to Adm…
3 years, 4 months ago
9. A lot of angry reactions - Steven Rathje - Part Two
Episode 9
This is part-two of a two-part series with Dr. Steven Rathje discussing research that found that social media creates incentives for out-group animos…
3 years, 4 months ago
8. A lot of angry reactions - Steven Rathje - Part One
Episode 8
In this episode we talk to Dr. Steven Rathje, building on research from prior episodes, we look at how out-group animosity drives engagement on socia…
3 years, 4 months ago
7. What took us five years of research he understood intuitively - Jeffrey M. Berry
Episode 7
I got a chance to sit down with professor Jeffrey M. Berry to catch up on what has changed (and what hasn’t changed) with the outrage industry since …
3 years, 5 months ago
BONUS - ATM Robbery, Outrage, and the Toxic Side of Nextdoor
The unsettling story of a small-town mom whose life takes a shocking turn after an ATM robbery. What begins as a simple warning to her neighbors on N…
3 years, 5 months ago