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

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December 8, 2022

David Beckemeye

democracy, hatred, moralsuperiority, motivatedmoralreasoning, motivatedreasoning, OutrageOverload, outrageporn, peterditto, politicalpolarization, politicalsectarianism

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 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 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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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 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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