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How liberals and conservatives behave more like Sunnis and Shias than they do political parties and why that’s a problem – Peter Ditto
Psychological Scientist Peter Ditto helps us understand more about the state of our political polarization.

How the outrage industry has evolved in the past decade – Jeffrey M. Berry
Tufts University professor Jeffrey M. Berry catches us up on what has changed (and what hasn’t changed) with the outrage industry (using fear or controversy to generate profit).

How Tech Amplifies Discontent and Disrupts Democracy – Tobias Rose-Stockwell
We’ll explore, with technologist and author Tobias Rose-Stockwell, the role of media, including social media platforms, in fueling outrage and examine the consequences it has on our mental health and social fabric.
About Us
The Outrage Industry is not broken. It’s supposed to work this way.
Every day, we’re bombarded with outrage porn, material used to evoke anger, disgust or indignation – online, in the news, political campaigns, gossip, friends venting their frustrations – it’s exhausting.
I’m making a claim that the outrage machine has been too successful, like the dog that caught the bus. We’ve been telling ourselves the other side is “evil” and now we believe it. Like a drug addiction, the outrage purveyors had to keep turning up the volume and now they have created a monster where there is no room for anything but outrage, no room for real arguments, the kind of healthy arguments that are needed to achieve anything, even within a given party, to say nothing of across party lines. Further, it’s damaging our mental well-being. The baseline of constant and chronic outrage, a persistent background level, weighs on us, creating constant stress and anxiety individually and on society as a whole.

The Outrage Science Bites podcast is a companion podcast to the Outrage Overload podcast.
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