Aggressive Joking, Canceling Friends, and Nerd Stuff
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 135 minutes
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00:00 Aggressive joking
24:49 OPP
27:27 Micromanaging in the workplace
48:45 Ashton Kutcher & Mila Kunis's apology
1:07:18 Canceling a friend
1:36:57 The dream Beatles collaboration
1:39:23 What kind of attachments do Jedi deny?
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December 15, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | So Birdo emails from patrons, what do you say? |
| 0:03.2 | Let's do it. |
| 0:03.8 | This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm your host Dr. Kirkhana. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm a therapist and I'm also a professor. |
| 0:09.0 | My name is Umberto Castagnana, and I develop cranes to lift heavy elephants. |
| 0:15.0 | Listen to Johanna from Oakland, she says, |
| 0:17.5 | what is this psychology of using a joke in a defensive manner? |
| 0:21.5 | Recently my roommate Michael and I have been having communication problems. |
| 0:26.6 | So she, Johanna lives with Michael and they have communication problems. |
| 0:30.9 | Since I started living with Michael, he make jokes he would be like there is no way |
| 0:36.3 | you love Joey my dead dog so Joey is her dog that had died there's no way you love Joey more than Winnie, which is his current dog. |
| 0:46.3 | There's no way you love Joey more than you love Winnie. |
| 0:49.2 | And another thing, apparently, that Michael said was, wow, you so dumb. |
| 0:53.4 | And another thing, wow, you are getting fat |
| 0:56.4 | going on with Johannes email. |
| 0:58.4 | Every time I confront him on the issue, |
| 1:01.1 | he says that he is just making a joke and he doesn't really mean it. |
| 1:05.9 | This may be wonder if joking can be used as a defense mechanism or can it be used in a passive |
| 1:11.4 | aggressive manner. What would be the motive to use jokes in such a |
| 1:16.4 | behavior. |
| 1:17.4 | Burto what do you think? |
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