Dr. Immordino-Yang: How Emotions & Social Factors Impact Learning

Huberman Lab

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 161 minutes

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In this episode, my guest is Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdD, a professor of education and psychology at the University of Southern California (USC) who has done groundbreaking research on emotions, self-awareness and social interactions and how these impact the way we learn and change across our lifespan. She explains how an understanding of emotions can be leveraged to improve learning in kids and in adults, and how the education system should be altered to include new forms of exploration, rules, and emotional and social contexts to facilitate better learning and to include more diverse learning (and teaching) styles. This episode ought to be of interest to anyone interested in how we learn, human development in children and adults, as well as those generally interested in education, psychology or neuroscience. For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://athleticgreens.com/huberman Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman HVMN: https://hvmn.com/huberman ROKA: https://roka.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/huberman Momentous: https://livemomentous.com/huberman The Brain Body Contract https://hubermanlab.com/tour Timestamps (00:00:00) Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang (00:02:11) Sponsors: Eight Sleep, HVMN, ROKA (00:05:54) Inspiration, Awe & Story (00:09:59) Brain-Body, Narratives (00:15:58) Emotions, Durability & Lifespan (00:21:47) Conjuring Stories, Historical Context & Emotion (00:32:16) Sponsor: AG1 (00:33:30) Hierarchal Emotion Organization, Default Mode Network, Story & Emotion (00:46:24) Emotional Development & Lifetime (00:57:13) Narrative & Genocide; Checking Assumptions & Mental Flexibility (01:05:22) Social Media, Cognitive Dissonance (01:09:52) Education, Deconstructing Beliefs & Curiosity (01:17:22) Sponsor: InsideTracker (01:18:32) Emotion & Learning; Constructing Meaning (01:28:59) Good Teachers & Curiosity (01:33:25) Inter-disciplinary Education; Development & Culture (01:50:58) Idea Exploration, Tolerance (01:56:53) Reframing Education, Deconstructing Assumptions (02:03:28) Safety, Creativity & Default Mode Network (02:12:15) Civic Discourse & Education; Deconstructing Ideas (02:27:31) “Mirror” Neurons, Shared Social Experiences (02:35:49) Cold Exposure & Sickness; Role of Education (02:38:51) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Uberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.
0:08.8	I'm Andrew Uberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and
0:12.4	Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today my guest is Dr. Mary Helen Immordino Yang.
0:18.4	Dr. Immordino Yang is a professor of education, psychology, and neuroscience at the University of Southern California.
0:25.5	Her laboratory focuses on emotions and the role of emotions in learning as well as how social
0:31.4	interactions impact how we learn. Today's discussion is one that I found absolutely fascinating
0:37.3	because it will reveal to you, in fact to all of us, how our temperament, that is our
0:42.4	emotionality, combined with our home environment and the school environments that we were raised in,
0:48.3	shape what we know about the world and our concepts of self. In thinking about that, we also discuss
0:54.2	the education system and how different aspects of rules and how we are told to behave and what
0:59.7	actually constitutes good behavior or bad behavior, shape how we learn information and develop a
1:05.0	sense of meaning in life. If any of that sounds abstract, I promise you that today's discussion
1:10.1	is incredibly practical. You will learn, for instance, how different styles of learning are going
1:14.9	to favor different people from children into adulthood and how we ought to think about learning
1:20.9	in terms of our emotional systems being our guide for what we learn and the information that we
1:26.4	retain and how we apply that information throughout life. For those of you that are parents or who
1:31.4	are thinking of becoming parents or who were once children, so I believe that encompasses everybody
1:36.8	out there, today's discussion will army with an intellectual understanding of psychology and neuroscience as it relates to
1:43.6	learning, but also practical tools that you can apply in order to be able to learn more effectively.
1:49.6	What I like so much about Dr. Imordino Yang's research and the discussion today is that she frames
1:55.6	up beautifully how those who best learn from traditional forms of classroom learning as well as
2:01.2	those who learn from non-traditional forms of learning either in or out of the classroom
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