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Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.
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The Ventilator
Many of us believe we know how we’d choose to die. We have a sense of how we’d respond to a diagnosis of an incurable illness. This week, we revisit a 2019 episode featuring one family’s decades-long conversation about dying. What they found is that the people we are when death is far in the distance may not be the people we become when death is near.
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Escaping the Matrix
A little more than a decade ago, researchers began tracking an alarming trend: a dramatic uptick in anxiety and depression among young Americans. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, like many other researchers, says the increase is related to our use of social media and devices. But he believes it’s also deeper than that — connected to our deepest moral beliefs and how they shape the way we view the world. He says there are simple steps we can take to improve the mental health of kids growing up in the smartphone era.
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Six Practices to Elevate Your Life
Deeply-embedded intuitions guide our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors -- often without our awareness. In part two of our conversation with Jonathan Haidt, we explore how we can purposefully deploy these moral foundations in our every day lives.
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Fear Less
Fear is a normal and healthy response to things that may harm us. But fear can also hold us back from doing the things we want to do. This week, we talk to psychiatrist and neuroscientist Arash Javanbakht about the psychology of fear — how it helps us, how it hurts us, and what we can do to harness it.
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US 2.0: Lincoln's Dilemma
Over the past few weeks, we've been exploring the psychology of partisanship, and how to effectively handle disagreements with those around us. This week, we conclude our US 2.0 series by turning to the past. We’ll explore how one of the most important leaders in American history — Abraham Lincoln — grappled with the pressing moral question of his time. When, if ever, is it worth compromising your own principles for the sake of greater progress?
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US 2.0: Where Loyalties Lie
Have you ever seen a post on Facebook or Twitter that seems blatantly false, and yet thousands of people have liked and shared it? Or perhaps you have a relative who forwards you emails with news articles that are factually inaccurate. This week on the show, psychologist Clara Pretus takes us inside the brains of people who share fake news, and explores ways to decrease the spread of misinformation.
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Favourite podcast
I love Hidden Brain. So interesting, thoughtful and perfectly paced.
A great podcast
Smart and fun, and the host has a really clear accent, that’s a plus for me that I’m italian and I use the podcast to practice my English.
Another school of life
The topics selected, the points discussed, the guests, the interviews,.... I simply love this show for the change of perspective it can bring about which is absolutely necessary around the world in our day and age.