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World Service,1 min

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Why are we more likely to show outrage online?

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Molly Crockett, a neuroscientist at Yale University in the US, explains why expressing moral outrage is not only easier on digital platforms, it's often rewarded - encouraging us to do it again and again. (Image: Girl looks at phone, Credit: Getty Images.)

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