The more morally enraging a thing is, the more likely it's going to go viral. Social media does this times six trillion. We just have a very skewed, they call it the mean world, our mean world syndrome. The more news you consume, the less accurate your understanding of the outside world becomes.
In this episode we sit down with NYU psychologist Jay Van Bavel who is very good at Twitter. His feed is always overflowing with the absolute latest and greatest research from psychology with links to papers as they come out – on many of the topics we so often explore on this podcast – and in this episode we discuss ten of those tweets and the research he’s shared.