The Science of Empathy, with Stanford Professor Jamil Zaki
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The Power of Outrage Bait
I think I think Game of Thrones is a great example of Feeling like you can relate to these characters who live in an imaginary world. You encounter human universals in those stories fear greed competition love Sacrifice honor, right? These are things that exist in all of us and it's almost more powerful seeing it in a context That has very little to do with your day-to-day life because you can access just how universal those experiences are. Since my book came out in in 2019 things have gotten a lot worse In that regard there's more Acceleration of outrage and Engagement baiting as you rightly put it Online and algorithms favor that type of content even more than they used to.
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