The urge to have the most current information is primal. As the clinical psychologist Anita Sanz wrote on Quora, there is a region in the brain that’s responsible for warning us when we’re not getting all the information we need or are being excluded from our community. “That specialized part of the brain,” she writes, “is a part of the limbic system, the amygdala, whose job it is to detect whether something could be a threat to our survival. Not having vital information or getting the impression that one is not a part of the ‘in’ group is enough for many individuals’ amygdalas to engage the
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