Why do we click on headlines we know are fake? Because clickbait isn’t about information — it’s about emotion.


In this episode, we explore how clickbait uses linguistic tricks — like the curiosity gap, false urgency, and personalisation — to hijack the five components of emotion: feeling, appraisal, action tendency, motor activity, and physiology.


Drawing from emotion science, we see how these headlines don’t just grab attention — they trigger real bodily responses.


A must-listen for anyone who’s ever thought, “Why did I just click that?” 

Listen if you want to reclaim your attention — one headline at a time.