“It’s an Outrage! See? Look How Outraged I Am!”

“It’s an Outrage! See? Look How Outraged I Am!”

 

Public demonstration in Baltimore
I’m not only righteously indignant at x, I want to be publicly SEEN as indignant at x!
(Wikimedia Commons)

 

Interesting social psychological insight from an experiment at Yale:

 

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-21/displaying-outrage-on-social-media-earns-a-kind-of-currency

 

How you too can profit from being indignant!

 

This may go a considerable distance toward explaining some otherwise puzzling phenomena on the internet, in newspaper and magazine comments sections, and elsewhere.

 

 


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