Chatterbox #312 – Gaslighting

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever heard the term “gaslighting”? The verb “to gaslight” has become a very popular word over the past several years. Gaslighting is a manipulation tactic where someone makes another person doubt their own experiences and memories. In this episode, Andrew and Anna have a thought-provoking discussion about this concept. They introduce the definition of the term, its history, and their personal thoughts and experiences with gaslighting in their own lives. It’s a great episode for Culips listeners who are interested in psychology! Fun facts The word has become so popular that online dictionary Merriam-Webster announced that “gaslighting” was its word of the year in 2022! According to its search data, searches for the term “gaslighting” increased 1,740% from the year before. Expressions included in the study guide A dark place To take credit for [something] More than [adjective] to To go back on [something] To second-guess oneself To butter [somebody] up Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Photo by RDNE Stock project

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Andrew and my name is Anna and you're listening to the
0:08.5	Kulips English podcast. Hello everyone welcome. cast.
0:16.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to Culeps. This is Chatterbox, our series designed for intermediate and advanced English learners.
0:21.0	And here at Chatterbox we present natural conversations
0:25.2	about a wide range of interesting topics maybe it's a current event maybe it's a
0:30.2	trending issue and today I am happy to be joined by my co-host
0:35.2	Anna. Hi Anna how's it going? Yeah great thank you what about you? I'm a little bit
0:41.5	hungry Anna we're recording here at 6 p.m. my time I know it's the morning for you but for me it's 6 p.m.
0:48.8	So yeah I'm all right but I'll be happy to eat some dinner after we record.
0:55.0	Anyways, why don't you introduce what our topic is about today?
1:00.0	In today's episode, we're going to explore the concept of gas lighting.
1:05.0	This is a thought-provoking, but also concerning psychological phenomenon,
1:10.0	and we're going to share our thoughts and opinions about this manipulation tactic and the impact that it can have on people.
1:18.0	Yeah, so a kind of deep topic today, but I think this is really important to talk about because we just hear about it everywhere these days.
1:27.3	I can't avoid hearing conversations about gas lighting, and so I think probably a lot of our listeners have maybe heard this expression, but don't really know what it means or don't really know how to use it when they're talking about these kinds of relationships, because I think gas lighting has a lot to do with how we handle our
1:46.0	relationships in our lives. So a very important topic and we'll get started with our conversation in just a moment.
1:53.7	But before we do, listeners, I want to remind you
1:56.9	that there is an interactive transcript
1:59.5	and a study guide for this episode, and it is available to all Q-Lips members. Now by using the
2:06.4	study guide while you listen it's just an excellent way to improve your
2:10.4	English fluency with us. And by becoming a
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