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Outrage 013 – How moral misinformation uses emotion to generate outrage – Ritsaart Reimann

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May 12, 2023

David Beckemeye

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There’s been a drum beat, suggesting that social media and information silos, echo chambers, are a driving force behind our divisiveness and polarization. New research suggests this may be overstated. It may have more to do with the very nature of how we come to know or believe things in the political realm. In this […]
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Outrage 011 – Put your oxygen mask on first – Alex Korb

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April 18, 2023

David Beckemeye

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This 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 009 – How social media gives us what captures our attention rather than what we actually want – Steven Rathje

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March 15, 2023

David Beckemeye

engagement, morallanguage, moralpanics, negativeaffectlanguage, negativitybias, outgroupanimosity, politicalpolarization, politicalsectarianism, socialidentitytheory, socialmedia, stevenrathje, virality, viralitymetrics

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 animosity, which can be a factor in increasing polarization. It is also harmful for mental health and society. In this episode, we also talk about the increasing problem of transparency of social media […]
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Outrage 008 – How social media creates incentives for out-group animosity – Steven Rathje

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February 28, 2023

David Beckemeye

engagement, morallanguage, moralpanics, negativeaffectlanguage, negativitybias, outgroupanimosity, outrage, politicalpolarization, politicalsectarianism, socialidentitytheory, socialmedia, stevenrathje, virality, viralitymetrics

We introduced the podcast with a two-part series with Dr. Peter H. Ditto, Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior, telling us about “Political Sectarianism” explaining how our divide goes beyond policy preferences and ideas, arguing that American political partisans are bonded by something that looks more like religious faith where “our” side is morally superior […]
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Outrage 004 – Why political parties in America cater less to moderate and independent voters – Sean Evans

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January 6, 2023

David Beckemeye

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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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Outrage 002 – How democracy runs counter to almost all of our evolutionary tendencies – Peter Ditto

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December 8, 2022

David Beckemeye

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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 001 – How liberals and conservatives behave more like Sunnis and Shias than they do political parties and why that’s a problem – Peter Ditto

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December 8, 2022

David Beckemeye

democracy, democracyincrisis, dialogue, morality, motivatedreasoning, OutrageOverload, peterditto, politicaldivision, politicaldysfunction, politicalhatred, politicaloutrage, politicalpolarization, politicalscience, politicalsectarianism, psychology, science, socialmedia, thebigsort

In this episode we speak with Peter H. Ditto, Professor of psychological science at UC Irvine who is an expert on motivated reasoning, and especially motivated moral reasoning. He worked with a team of all-star scientists to look at a major social problem in our society: political polarization. In this episode, we explore this groundbreaking work.
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Outrage 013 – How moral misinformation uses emotion to generate outrage – Ritsaart Reimann

Outrage 011 – Put your oxygen mask on first – Alex Korb

Outrage 009 – How social media gives us what captures our attention rather than what we actually want – Steven Rathje

Outrage 008 – How social media creates incentives for out-group animosity – Steven Rathje

Outrage 004 – Why political parties in America cater less to moderate and independent voters – Sean Evans

Outrage 002 – How democracy runs counter to almost all of our evolutionary tendencies – Peter Ditto

Outrage 001 – How liberals and conservatives behave more like Sunnis and Shias than they do political parties and why that’s a problem – Peter Ditto

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