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Outrage 011 – Put your oxygen mask on first – Alex Korb
David Beckemeyer
achieve, actions, alexcorbphd, anxiety, autopilot, bestsellingauthor, complexworld, control, controllable, distinguish, divisiveness, effort, emotionalcontrol, emotions, focus, goal, lowerthetemperature, mood, neuroscience, nextstep, otherpeoplesreactions, OutrageOverload, politicalpolarization, smalllifechanges, stress, theupwardspiralapproach, thoughts, tribalismThis is part-two of a two-part series on “The Neuroscience of Outrage Porn.” We’re talking with Dr. Alex Korb, a neuroscientist and best-selling author. If you haven’t listened to part-one yet, it’s time to go listen because you don’t want to miss it. In part one, we learned about some of the brain systems involved…
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Outrage 007 – How the outrage industry has evolved in the past decade – Jeffrey M. Berry
David Beckemeyer
AlgorithmicFeeds, Angertianment, AttentionEconomy, BreakingNews, CommonGround, Cortisol, Dopamine, Exaggeration, FearAndOutrage, HateTheOtherSide, IncendiaryRhetoric, Indignation, lowerthetemperature, MorallyEgregious, MorallyIndignant, nextdoor, OutrageIndustry, outrageporn, Perception, PoliticalCampaigns, Progress, socialmediaThe term “outrage industry” is fundamental to this podcast. It comes up on basically every episode. On the podcast website, I introduce the podcast as follows: “in each episode we explore a different aspect of the outrage industry and lowering the temperature.” It’s such a key concept that the website has a separate page defining…
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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.