How to stop doom scrolling — and have a better experience online with Jay Van Bavel

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Jay Van Bavel is an award-winning professor of psychology and neural science at NYU — and he's an expert on the causes of and cures for division. Adam and Jay discuss the science of virality, why bad news often commands our attention, and how we can find common ground around more uplifting content. Jay's latest book, The Power of Us, is out now.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:05.0	When I use social media, it's like your diet.
0:08.0	It's like, trust me, like I'd rather have like a chocolate cake right now,
0:12.0	but like I'm actually going to go have a
0:13.3	salad for lunch because I'm 46 and like if I have a chocolate cake for lunch every day it's like not
0:20.1	going to work for me.
0:20.8	Hey everyone it's Adam Grant.
0:25.0	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick
0:29.0	with the TED Audio Collective.
0:31.0	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of
0:34.3	fascinating people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
0:38.0	My guest today is Jay Van Bevel. He's a professor of psychology and
0:45.0	neuroscience at NYU and an award-winning teacher, researcher, and writer. His book,
0:50.7	The Power of Us with Dominic Packer is a great read on how to overcome our differences.
0:56.4	Jay is also a leading expert on why what goes viral often makes us miserable and how to change that.
1:07.0	It's like taking out the tiny tumor in your brain so you don't have seizures anymore. Like that's how we do surgery.
1:09.0	I think like this is a level of which it might help if people knew that and they could like figure out
1:14.5	what those accounts were and unfollow them they might actually enjoy their
1:17.4	online experience a lot more.
1:22.3	All right Jay I have to tell you, part of the reason that you're here among many is I find
1:29.6	the news incredibly depressing. And don't even want to
1:33.0	and I'm hoping you're going to cure that.
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