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331. Paul Zak — Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness

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Is There Something in the Human Brain Like a Shark Feeding Frenzy?

I've been thinking about this and of course everybody's talking about implicit racism and prejudice but bigger train saw I wonder if there's kind of a an element of human psychology of just kind of almost like a mass hysteria like a shark feeding frenzy you saw this with the Rodney King beating it's almost like these guys once they were unleashed they just couldn't stop themselves. yeah speaking of which do you have a comment on police killings okay the most recent one where uh you know the body camera where they're just wailing away on this poor guy?

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