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Something You Should Know

How Our Brains Experience Taste & The Upside of Anger - SYSK Choice

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Social Sciences, Science, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It makes sense that people cry when they are sad – but why do some of us cry when we are happy? This episode starts by examining how two opposite emotions can create the same symptom. By the way, what happy occasion do you think causes people to cry “tears of joy” most often? Hint: It’s not weddings. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141111124047.htm Flavor and taste are not the same thing. In fact, your sense of taste actually involves all your senses and is more complex than you ever imagined. For example, why do you like some foods that other people hate? Here to explain all this and more is food scientist Camilla Arndal Andersen. Listen as she helps us understand your interesting, complicated and subjective sense of taste. Camilla has a TED talk on this topic which you can watch here: https://www.ted.com/talks/camilla_arndal_andersen_what_happens_in_your_brain_when_you_taste_food?language=en What causes you to get angry? When you do get angry, are you good at dealing with it? Could you ever wish you could handle your anger better? Listen as I explore these questions with Ryan Martin. He is a professor of psychology and associate dean at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and has studied anger extensively. He has a TED talk about anger called The Upside of Anger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfcQaXG_Qhs). Listen and you will get a better understanding of your own anger. Children skip. You probably used to when you were young but don’t anymore. After all, seeing an adult skipping down the road might seem a bit odd. Listen as I discuss this and you might find yourself skipping anyway no matter how strange you might look. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3895968/Why-adults-stop-skipping-s-hard-Activity-uses-quarter-energy-running-speed.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today on something you should know, sure people cry when they're sad, but why does some people cry when they're happy?

0:09.0

Then, understanding all the things that affect flavor and taste.

0:13.6

Temperature, for example.

0:15.5

It's extremely complicated because temperature

0:18.5

will affect the taste and the smell.

0:20.8

You know this from ice cream.

0:22.2

Melted ice cream will

0:23.4

taste incredibly sweet, but if you eat it frozen then it doesn't taste as sweet.

0:28.8

Also, kids skip, but when was the last time you skipped?

0:34.1

You should, and I'll tell you why.

0:36.7

Then understanding why we get angry, there are a lot of reasons.

0:41.8

Sometimes it's about treatment and how we feel we should be treated as a lot of what

0:46.1

other psychologists have referred to as shouldistic thinking, right?

0:49.5

I should be treated this way.

0:51.4

Other people should do this.

0:53.0

That plays into whether or not we get angry.

0:56.0

All this today on Something You Should Know.

1:01.9

Something You Should Know, Fascinating Intel, the world's top experts,

1:07.0

and practical advice you can use in your life today.

1:11.0

Something You Should Know, With Mike Carothers.

1:15.0

Hey, welcome to something you should know.

1:18.0

Have you ever been so happy that you cried tears of joy. I suspect everybody has, but the whole idea of tears of joy

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