A Psychologist Explains Four Reasons the Internet Feels So Broken
Plain English with Derek Thompson
Exploring Schadenfreude in Sports and the Impact of Moral Emotional Language
The speaker reflects on the satisfaction derived from experiencing schadenfreude in sports, particularly in witnessing a rival team's misfortune, highlighting the deep-rooted pleasure that stems from seeing others fail. This emotional response is supported by a study showing increased brain activity in response to negative outcomes for rival teams. Additionally, the use of moral emotional language drives engagement on social media, with words like contempt, hate, outraged, and love being the most shared. By distinguishing moral emotional language from non-moral, non-emotional language through dictionaries of emotional and moral words, the speaker emphasizes the significance of these linguistic elements in eliciting strong reactions and sparking interactions.
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