The Internet Hijacked Your Dopamine, Your Rage, and Your Soul
About this episode
This episode explores how the internet manipulates our brains, affecting our emotions and behaviors.
YOUR BRAIN IS NOT YOURS ANYMOREYou scrolled today. You know you did. Before you even got out of bed, you were 47 posts deep into someone else's drama — and you know more about a TikTok beef between two strangers than you know about your own blood pressure.Here's what nobody's telling you: that's not a personality flaw. That's a calculated, peer-reviewed, neuroscience-backed exploit running on your brain in real time.In this episode, I'm reverse-engineering all of it.WHAT WE COVER:→ The "Dark Tetrad" — the 4 personality traits that define the chronic troll (Buckels et al., 2014, University of Manitoba)→ Why YOU might already be a troll and not know it — Stanford & Cornell research on situational trolling (Cheng et al., 2017)→ The Online Disinhibition Effect — why the internet strips your psychological brakes (Suler, 2004)→ Why anger spreads faster than joy online — and what that does to society (Fan et al., 2014, Beihang University, 70M+ posts analyzed)→ The Amygdala Hijack — how rage bait makes you physically unable to scroll past→ Moral outrage as a dopamine loop — and why it's making you lazy (Crockett, 2017, Yale)→ Slacktivism: why online rage REPLACES real…
People in this episode
Host: Mike
Topics covered
- internet psychology
- dopamine
- trolling behavior
- online disinhibition
- social media impact
- moral outrage
- attention span
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of Manitoba, Stanford, Cornell, Beihang University, Yale, UCLA
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