You're listening to Comedy Central.

Ow!

Oh wow.

Americans are really angry.

Even this warm glass of milk and bedtime hasn't helped.

It's almost like we're addicted to anger.

At least that's what's going on according to Jimmy Kimmel.

Wait, wrong Jimmy Kimmel.

This guy is a conflict researcher at Yale,

but he says closest I'm gonna get to network TV, so let's go with it.

We now know from neuroscience studies that people can actually become addicted to a grievance revenge cycle.

Okay, so political outrage is literally addictive.

Like cocaine or the peloton or porn hub.

Yeah, when you experience what you perceive to be mistreatment or unfairness,

this triggers the reward circuitry in the brain,

which creates a craving in the mind for retaliation.

But Dr. Jimmy Kimmel, what is the problem with being angry at someone doing something shitty to you?

And maybe you just go on Twitter and troll them endlessly forever.

Well, how does that make you feel when you do that?

It makes you feel good.

For how long though?

For, I don't know, maybe like a minute.

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