Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr Scott Barry Kaufman where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.

Each episode will feature a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world

we live in.

Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. Oh, So today I'm really glad to have Elaine Arren on the podcast.

Elaine is a research associate at State University of New York Stony Brook.

She's the author of the undervalued

self along with numerous other books including the highly sensitive person, the highly sensitive

child, and the highly sensitive person in love. She began probing emotional and relationship problems from the

nature side with her study of high sensitivity, an inherited trait in 20% of

the population. Now Aaron turns to the nurture aspect and the critical problem of self-worth.

Thank you, Lane, for talking to me today.

I'm glad to be here, Scott.

It's really nice.

Yeah, I've been a long time admire of your research from many aspects, you know, as a researcher and scientist, but also as someone who I would identify is highly sensitive.

So thank you for, you know, when you just start off by thanking you for all the great work

you've done this topic and how much you've really transformed lots of people's lives.

So thank you.

Thank you.

I especially like talking to highly sensitive men who will say they're highly sensitive.

I know that the best interviewers and writers almost always are highly sensitive, but sometimes

I'll get on a radio or TV show and some man will be giving a really hard time about the research or making a lot of jokes and then I'll just say you know you might be highly sensitive yourself most the best interviewers are but I've found most men have a real complex about sensitivity

because it's difficult in our culture to be highly sensitive.

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