Category: 2017
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How Social Media Changed the Way We Form Opinions
How social media, neuroscience, and group psychology combined to shift human cognition away from individual reasoning — and what the research tells us about why it happened. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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Identity Groups and Collective Emotion
How identity groups shape collective emotion — exploring the psychology, neuroscience, and social dynamics that drive group behavior from 2017 to the present. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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Outrage as Social Currency
How social media transformed moral outrage into a form of social currency — and what psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral research reveal about the costs. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The Neurology of Online Conflict
Why does online conflict escalate so fast? This deep dive into the neurology of online conflict explores how the brain’s threat responses, dopamine systems, and tribal cognition interact with platform design to fuel digital outrage. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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Emotional Reactivity and Viral Attention
How social media turned emotional reactivity into a measurable, optimizable variable — and what the large-scale cultivation of reactive states cost human judgment and public life. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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Anger Became Algorithmically Rewarded
How social media platforms learned that anger drove engagement, the behavioral science behind it, and the social consequences of algorithmically rewarded outrage. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
