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Outrage 26 – The Science of Changing Minds – David McRaney

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October 15, 2023

David Beckemeyer

neuroscience, psychology, research, science

In this episode of the Outrage Overload podcast, we hear from David McRaney, a renowned science journalist, author, and podcaster. In this thought-provoking conversation, McRaney talks about his book “How Minds Change” and shares his wisdom on the art of changing minds and the challenges we face in an increasingly polarized world. He emphasizes the…
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Outrage 25 – How Crowdsourcing Identified Effective Strategies to Reduce Political Polarization – Jan Voelkel

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October 5, 2023

David Beckemeyer

politicalpolarization, research, science

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that Americans are deeply divided along political lines. Democrats and Republicans often perceive each other as more extreme and different than they actually are, leading to a range of harmful consequences for our democracy. The Strengthening Democracy Challenge (SDC) seeks to address this issue by identifying short,…
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Outrage BONUS – How Chronic Conditions Drive Desperation: The High Cost of Naturopathic Care – Britt Hermes & Michael Lenz

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September 23, 2023

David Beckemeyer

misinformation, science

In a world often fueled by outrage media and characterized by an ever-evolving outrage culture, we recognize the importance of tackling pressing issues with depth and compassion. In this bonus episode, we embark on a journey that challenges prevailing narratives surrounding naturopathy and its role in the lives of individuals grappling with chronic conditions. It’s…
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Outrage BONUS – How ChatGPT AI Can Persuade Humans on Political Issues – Hui Bai

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April 20, 2023

David Beckemeyer

AI, AIandpolitics, debate, discourse, disinformation, future, GPT-3, innovation, media, misinformation, news, OutrageOverload, politicalpersuasion, politics, regulation, research, science, society, Stanford, technology

The AI landscape is changing extremely fast. ChatGPT was first released to the public only a few months ago. We did an episode about it fairly early on. This new AI is being used already across many industries and applications, including writing code, policies, legal briefs, plans, job descriptions, analysis, and many others. Researchers realized…
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Outrage BONUS – Could we have done better to avoid the politicization of COVID? – Kevin Bass

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March 28, 2023

David Beckemeyer

COVID19, mitigation, modeling, pandemic, polarization, politicization, publichealth, science, socialmedia, trust, vaccine

Kevin Bass, an M.D./Ph.D. student, recently wrote an opinion piece for Newsweek titled It’s Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About COVID and It Cost Lives. He says: the scientific community from the CDC to the WHO to the FDA and their representatives, repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public…
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Outrage 006 – How virality results in moral panics – Kurt Gray

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February 6, 2023

David Beckemeyer

ethics, morality, moralpanic, outrage, psychology, research, science, socialmedia, socialmediaimpact, socialmediapsychology, virality

Moral panics are not uncommon. Back in the 1980’s there was a moral panic over the game Dungeons and Dragons. Some parents believed D&D was the work of the devil, a gateway to joining a Satanic cult. It wasn’t “but this didn’t stop people from worrying about it,” says my guest on this episode, Dr.…
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BONUS – ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence

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December 20, 2022

David Beckemeyer

AI, ArtificialIntelligence, Chatbot, ChatGPT, future, Futurology, innovation, OpenAI, research, science, technology

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 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 Beckemeyer

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…
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