Hannah Rose: I don't think any bad can come from understanding your own emotional levers better. As a journalist, it depresses me a little bit because I spend a lot of time researching and marshalling facts like I did with my brother. "I'm having this emotional attachment or strong belief and that's leading me to behave in this way," she says.
A lot of people are plagued by the feeling that society used to be better, that neighbors were more helpful, that strangers once talked to you. Some people channel that belief into political action, as in the Make America Great Again movement. A new study explains why the sense that people and the culture have gotten worse is a psychological illusion. This special episode features Hanna Rosin, the host of Radio Atlantic. Subscribe and find new episodes of Radio Atlantic every Thursday.
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