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Your Primal Instinct Is Being Exploited

An Ounce by Jim Fugate

Mar 14, 20267:10Society & Culture

Clickbait psychology, dopamine loops, phantom phone vibrations, and the attention economy all trace back to one ancient survival instinct: the rustle in the grass. The same evolutionary wiring that kept our ancestors ali...

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Your Primal Instinct Is Being Exploited is an episode from An Ounce by Jim Fugate. Clickbait psychology, dopamine loops, phantom phone vibrations, and the attention economy all trace back to one ancient survival instinct: the rustle in the...

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Published Mar 14, 2026, 7:10 long, audio available.