COVID-19: Dealing with Social Distancing

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4.2 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Judy Moskowitz, a professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University, talks about ways to cope during this time of missing out on our usual diet of social interactions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.
0:02.3	Hiya.
0:02.9	So, Benny has really blossomed this term.
0:05.6	You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.
0:09.6	Oh, that's not quite what I meant.
0:11.1	It's free to sell on there?
0:12.3	Free to sell?
0:13.5	Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.
0:16.8	You sold my guitar?
0:19.9	Shall we talk about Benny?
0:22.1	When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say you when it's eBay.
0:26.7	Things people love. T's and Cs apply, excludes vehicles.
0:31.0	Welcome to another in our series of coronavirus COVID-19 episodes of Scientific American Science Talk posted on March 16th, 2020.
0:41.3	I'm Steve Murski.
0:43.0	At this point in the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most of us have been asked to practice social distancing.
0:50.1	That is, stay the hell away from each other.
0:52.5	And it's stressful.
0:56.7	So I call Judy Moskowitz in Chicago.
1:01.6	She's a professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University. She studies the psychological and physical effects of employing techniques to increase positive emotions, especially when you're under stress.
1:14.9	We have been told to try to practice social distancing, but social distancing can be very challenging.
1:24.3	So you have some insights into how to weather that particular aspect of the storm.
1:31.2	Yeah, that's right. So it's interesting because humans have evolved to come together and to
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