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Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone

Ep 110: Zeal of Approval

Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone

Lipstick Nancy, Inc. & Glassbox Media

Comedy

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Feeling rejected? Desperately seeking a level of approval and social acceptance that seems to be lacking? Well, Duke University’s Dr. Mark Leary can’t help you with that. But he CAN explain the human animal’s deep and evolutionarily-motivated need to be liked. Plus, hot off the electronic presses - your show descriptions! Also, there are ducks. Lots of ducks.  GUEST Dr. Mark Leary Researcher, writer Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University HOUSE BAND Mark DiFlorio  Drums www.markdiflorio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.8

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0:36.4

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0:38.9

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0:45.0

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0:49.6

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0:56.8

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1:00.8

Stop in California.

1:09.1

Coming to you live from our houses in Los Angeles, California.

1:13.2

It's nobody listens to Paula Poundstone, your comedy field guide to life.

1:17.7

Tonight, you like me.

1:19.4

You really, really like me.

1:21.4

I mean, don't you?

1:23.2

Tonight, our guest, Dr. Mark Leary, explains why we seek approval so avidly and why rejection

1:28.7

sting so much.

1:30.2

What causes some people to have higher self-esteem in others?

1:33.0

Well, he invented the sociometer theory to explain that phenomenon.

1:36.9

I think you like me.

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