524: Nicholas Christakis | Pandemic Impacts and Contagious Behavior
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Nicholas Christakis (@NAChristakis) is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, a physician, and author. His latest book is Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live.
What We Discuss with Nicholas Christakis:- What social science tells us about our best shot (pun moderately intended) at achieving herd immunity from COVID-19.
- How social networks allowed the virus to spread and reinforced mistrust of well-known science among certain politically oriented segments of the populace.
- What the lessons of past disasters can teach us about the road ahead.
- Why the bad (and good) habits of our friends' friends can have an impact on our own behavior from across vast social networks.
- What we can do to best defend ourselves against the unwanted influence of these unseen members of our network.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.2 | Most people understand it's not very controversial or even unexpected to just say, |
| 0:07.7 | look, you're affected by your friends. |
| 0:09.6 | But the point is that the influence doesn't stop at one degree of separation. |
| 0:13.8 | You can have a sequence of social interactions such that you come to be affected, |
| 0:17.7 | not just by your friends, but by your friends friends friends, |
| 0:21.1 | your friends friends or your friends friends friends or perhaps even your friends friends friends friends. |
| 0:25.4 | People you don't even know can affect you. |
| 0:27.6 | Now, when as soon as I say that, you think, well, okay, I can kind of see that with respect to germs. |
| 0:32.7 | Like right now you're not sick and your friends aren't sick, |
| 0:35.6 | but your friends friends are sick. |
| 0:37.7 | The germ is going to wind its way through the network and affect you, |
| 0:40.0 | but it also then happens with other things like emotions and ideas or behaviors. |
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