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BONUS – Ninety-nine percent were so nice
It was just another typical day for Elaine (not her real name), a busy mom, running errands and making stops along the way. She had just pulled up to the local ATM, feeling confident and safe in her own neighborhood. But as she began her transaction, she was suddenly accosted by a masked stranger who […]
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BONUS – Twitter and Mastodon with David Troy
In this bonus episode, I geek out with an old friend, David Troy. We talk about Twitter and the announcement today that they are shutting down free access to the API, the Twitter-alternative, Mastodon, along with some geopolitics and other things. From Ars Technica: Cash-strapped Twitter to start charging developers for API access next week […]
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Outrage 005 – Holocaust Denial – Luke Berryman
When I first approached the topic of this episode, the prototypical title was “It’s ok to punch Nazis.” Let me explain. As you know, the Outrage Overload podcast is science-oriented, intended to be non-partisan. If we talk about politics, we bring in scientists to talk about the psychology or neuroscience of politics, not about specific […]
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Outrage 004 – Why political parties in America cater less to moderate and independent voters – Sean Evans
I first reached out to Sean Evans because he wrote an article about Ways to Stay Out of the Culture of Outrage. However, when we met I got interested in hearing from a political scientist to get the political science perspective regarding some of the themes we often discuss on the podcast, such as political […]
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BONUS – ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence
I’m almost certain that you’ve heard of ChatGPT by now. It’s a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) chat bot that is taking the internet by storm, as they say. It’s free to use during a test period. Within days of launching, it soared to over one million users and now has several million – I don’t […]
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Outrage 003 – Why it’s so important to restore civility in our lives – Russ Charvonia
Uncivil behavior has become more common and more accepted in society. And Americans are concerned about it. In fact, the demise of civility is one of the very few things that almost everyone seems to agree on. The latest annual survey released by Weber Shandwick finds that 93% of Americans perceive incivility in society as […]
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Outrage 002 – How democracy runs counter to almost all of our evolutionary tendencies – Peter Ditto
In this episode we conclude our interview with Professor Peter H. Ditto, where we continue our discussion of political polarization and “outrage porn” including how we overestimate the extremism of the other side and their hatred of us and various other distortions that get in the way of productive dialogue, as well as things like the Big Sort and loyalty tests.
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Outrage BONUS – Were the midterms a referendum on outrage?
In this episode, we catch up with political scientist Sean Evans to discuss what role “outrage porn” and “angertainment” played in the 2022 midterms. Sean Evans is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Union University. Originally from Decatur, Alabama, he completed his B.A. at Lipscomb University and his […]
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Outrage Overload is a podcast about the outrage industry, my journey to discover what it is, how it affects us, and what we can do about it.
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