Angela, you don't know what a crossover is. Did you Google it? Well, I did have to Google it. The Simpsons did a crossover with 24. That's amazing. I think I get it, though. It's like the Doritos Taco Bell mashup thing. The most horrifying new one of these is Heinz just did this crazy new thing where they're doing all these weird mayo catchups and stuff, but they did an Oreo mayo ketchup.

That sounds terrible.

But this will not be terrible because today we are doing a cognitive science mashup of the two best cognitive science podcasts out there.

Let's be real.

Lori Santos from the Happiness Lab, along with Angela Duckworth from No Stupid Questions.

And we are using this no stupid

questions format that my usual partner, Stephen Dubner, and I like so much, which is that one of us

asks a question of the other. And then we just have a rambling conversation. I'm in for the

rambling conversation. That's usually what we have together when we meet up, Angela. Let's do it. Thank the Lord that you're here. God do it.

I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Lori Santos. And you're listening to No Stupid Questions. Today on the show, why do we mirror the accents and mannerisms of the people we meet?

Monkey A observes Monkey B, do something different with a banana.

I don't know if that's stereotyping.

They do like bananas. Totally true.

Also, why can happiness seem so elusive, even when things are going well?

Holy shmoli, this is the best life I could possibly be living.

Why am I not a 10 out of 10 on happiness?

I think you have the first question for me, correct?

I do.

And this comes from a listener named Sabika Shaban, who hails from Qatar and is a graduate student there.

This question is as follows. I have a question about mimicking the mannerisms of people we meet,

especially in our multicultural environments. Often in conversations with people with very market accents different from my

own, I find my own accent taking on nuances of theirs or interjecting typical expressions from

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