Going Deep on Childhood with Dr. Dima Amso

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Here’s why I had to sit with Dr. Dima Amso, who teaches and runs a lab that studies developmental cognition at Columbia: in a sea of hyperbole, she offers the voice of sanity and moderation, clarifying basic ideas like “good enough parenting.” For anyone who wonders how well-being is affected by our earliest childhood environments and relationships, this is the conversation for you. Please share widely with everyone who is feeling trapped by their personal history, as imperfect parents or as grown children of imperfect parents.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wenders. I'm Kelly Corrigan and how it affects our well-being
0:16.2	as children and also for the rest of our lives.
0:19.0	My guest is Dr. Deema Amso.
0:21.3	She's a professor of psychology at Columbia where she also runs the developmental
0:25.4	cognitive neuroscience lab. We sat down in my house to have a long clarifying conversation
0:31.4	about what good enough parenting includes, whether
0:35.1	resilience is common or rare, the difference between risk and
0:40.0	deterministic outcome, and how we measure happiness.
0:44.5	So join us in this second of 10 conversations
0:47.6	we're having about well-being,
0:49.7	how to get it, and how to keep it.
0:52.2	We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wunders and Dr.
0:54.8	Dima Amso. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wunders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. In this series about well--being it seemed like we would have to
1:15.3	discuss nature and nurture and so we found two great thinkers this is the first her
1:21.6	name is Dr. Deema Amso.
1:23.0	She's a professor of psychology at Columbia.
1:26.0	She also runs the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab.
1:30.0	She is the recipient of the James S McDonald's Scholar Award and is a fellow of the American Psychological Society.
1:38.0	Next week we'll talk to Dr Francis Collins, who many of you probably know, led the effort that mapped the human
1:44.9	genome and is really a perfect person to talk about nature with.
1:49.4	So here is my conversation on nurture and well-being
1:52.6	with Dr. Deema Amso.
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