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478. How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt?

Freakonomics Radio

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Are You a Victim or a Perpetrator of Contempt?

The more time you consume political information on social media, the more you're oing to be both a victim and a perpetrator of contempt. There's a really great psychiatry professor at stanford medical school named anna lemke who has a big new book out about dopamin. She talks about addictions to video games and gambling and substances and pornography. What they all have in common is they stimulate dopemine. And again, these are the sorenero chemical predictors of falling happiness. It's funny, but it's not right. Straight hits off the bottle for people who just can't handle it.

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