In Off Message #18, the second of five special media-curious podcasts in conjunction with Jolt (see joltetn.eu), a project coordinated by the FuJo Institute at Dublin City University funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, Elina Makri discusses with broadcaster and DCU graduate Pat O'Mahony her fascinating Jolt research into how human cognition can perhaps explain irrationality, biases, the strong role of emotions and the preference for storytelling (instead of data and numbers) in journalism.