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Hidden Brain

Episode 5: Compassion

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.640.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of Hidden Brain, we'll explore the science of compassion, and how being kind to others can make a real difference in your own life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.

0:06.8

This week we're going to tell you the story of a woman who ran an interesting psychological

0:11.0

experiment on herself.

0:13.8

We look at the science of compassion and why being kind to others can make a big difference

0:19.1

to your own life.

0:20.1

It's easy to say, yeah, I can't make a difference, but everyone can make a difference.

0:25.7

I want to tell you the story about a woman named Kelly Gillespie.

0:29.0

Using her early 40s, lives in London and a couple of years ago, she took a psychology

0:33.5

class.

0:34.6

The class was online hosted by the education platform Coursera and it was taught by Scott

0:39.7

Plouse.

0:40.7

He's a psychologist at Wesleyan University.

0:43.8

And then my life changed after doing professor's thesis course.

0:47.7

And now I'm studying to be a psychiatrist and a piston counselor.

0:51.8

Kelly learned several psychological concepts in the class.

0:55.0

One is called the norm of reciprocity.

0:57.2

If you're nice to someone or you open up to them, they're likely to do the same with

1:01.2

you.

1:02.2

She also learned about the power of empathy.

1:04.3

When you put yourself in someone else's shoes, it profoundly changes the relationship

1:08.7

that you have with them.

1:12.2

Now lots of people learn about ideas and psychology, but Kelly did something unusual.

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