Sana Khadar

He doesn't really know where he's going.

And he ends up driving into a strip mall parking lot where he's cornered.

This is terrifying and comedic now with distance.

Now, this comment confused Kurt, and it incensed him because, yes, of course, it was wrong that Kurt had nearly smashed into the guy, that he could have killed him, but now Kurt felt like he was the victim, with this guy cornering him and threatening him.

Kurt Gray is all grown up now, and he's a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding.

He's also, hopefully, a better driver.

But the fact that both he and the Mercedes driver thought they were the bigger victims, that they were most harmed, Kurt says that explains the crux of why we get stuck in all kinds of heated arguments on everything from abortion to, yes, road rage.

Kurt explores all of this in his new book called Outraged, Why We Fight About Morality in Politics and How to Find Common Ground.

So today, we're digging into the psychology behind our moral outrage.

I'm Sana Khadar.

This is All in the Mind.

It certainly feels like we're more outraged than ever before, thanks to social media.

But as we know, feelings aren't necessarily fact.

So is this true?

But disagreements over political, sometimes moral, issues have become so heated, in the states especially, that two nationally representative surveys conducted by researchers at Louisiana State University and the University of Maryland found about 15% of self-identifying Republicans and 20% of self-identifying Democrats think the country would be better off if members of the opposing party just died.

which is incredible to me.

And I don't think that vibe would be similar here in Australia.

I think that's particularly American.

But psychologically and evolutionarily, how have we gotten to this point, though?

But then we faced another threat, which was other people.