Selected Media Coverage and Scientific Outreach

• Making money from internet outrage. BBC World News, Business Daily Podcast. Dec 10, 2024.

• Outraged? You’re more likely to share misinformation. The Washington Post. Dec 4, 2024.

• Social Media, Moral Outrage, and Polarization. Unlocking Us with Brene Brown Podcast. March 26, 2024.

• Social media algorithms warp how people learn from each other. William J. Brady. Scientific American. August 25, 2023.

• Are people on social media actually that outraged? William J. Brady. Kellogg Insight. April 10, 2023

• Social media is really making us more morally outraged. Charlotte Hu. Popular Science. August, 2021.

• ‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation. Max Fischer. NY Times. May, 2021.

• Outrage and Polarization on Social Media. William J. Brady. Interview for Psychology of Technology Institute. October 13, 2020.

• Screaming into the void: how outrage is hijacking our lives. William J. Brady. Interview featured on NPR’s Hidden Brain program. October 7, 2019.

• The problem with believing what we’re told. Gary Marcus and Annie Duke. The Wall Street Journal. August 31st, 2019.

• Why moral emotions go viral online. Ana Gantman, William Brady and Jay Van Bavel. Scientific American. August 20th, 2019.

• The technology of kindness. Jamil Zaki. Scientific American. August 6th, 2019.

• Understanding the use of persuasive technology on internet platforms. Our research was cited in a presentation to U.S. Senators on the use of digital media for persuasion (around 1:30:00). June 25th, 2019.

• Trial by Twitter. William J. Brady. Hearsay w/ Cathy Lewis (30 min live radio interview with DC-area NPR affiliate). February 25th, 2019.

• How political opinions change. Phillip Parnamets & Jay Van Bavel. Scientific American. November 20th, 2018.

• Why do good people turn bad online? Gaia Vince. BBC. April 3rd, 2018.

• False news stories travel faster and farther on Twitter than the truth. Brian Resnick. CNN. March 19th, 2018

• Rack up social likes by being angry. William J. Brady & Molly Crockett. NBC Left Field (digital short about our research with interview clips)

• Twitter’s Passion Politics. Jay Van Bavel & William J. Brady. NY Times. July 8th, 2017.

• One graph shows how morally outraged tweets stay within their political bubble. July 8th, 2017. Olivia

  Goldhill. Quartz.

• Donald Trump on Twitter: There may be a psychological reason why the President’s tweets go viral. June 28th, 2017. Ryan Bort. Newsweek.

• How to go viral: stick to your morals but add a hint of emotion.” Liat Clark. Wired UK. June 28th, 2017.

• Why do so many studies fail to replicate? Jay Van Bavel. NY Times.  May 27th, 2016.