Hulking Out! Why You Change When You're Angry

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When mild-mannered David Banner gets mad he transforms into the raging Incredible Hulk. Dr Laurie Santos loves this comic book tale - because it reflects real life. Intense things like anger, pain, even hunger, can cause us to act in extreme ways that we might not predict beforehand or forgive afterwards.

When we're in so-called "hot states" we might become a total stranger to ourselves. This can have a serious impact on our happiness, by stopping us properly planning for how we'll react to strong emotions and causing us to be unfairly harsh on our inner Hulks.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch.
0:05.7	It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy.
0:11.6	Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form journalism.
0:16.2	Like so much. You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long-form story every week.
0:23.6	I'm that host.
0:25.0	Listen to Story of the Week on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.4	Here in the last archive, I've been trying to figure out what happened to Truth.
0:34.2	I've been telling stories about how we know what we know, and why it seems sometimes lately is if we don't know anything at all.
0:40.8	But I am done with the problems of Truth. I want solutions.
0:45.2	The season of the last archive is all about common knowledge.
0:49.2	Is that kind of knowledge still possible? I tried to find out. Coming soon.
0:55.2	Listen to the last archive on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:07.0	Pushkin.
1:14.6	Hello. I can see you.
1:17.1	I'm hanging out with my mom over Zoom today to take a trip down television memory lane.
1:22.3	Okay, I'm ready. Mom and I are still huge fans of the TV shows I grew up with when I was a kid.
1:27.9	You watch a lot of cartoons, you know, TV and, uh, ThunderCats.
1:32.8	We're also really into live-action superhero TV. Buck Rogers, the greatest American hero,
1:38.7	and Linda Carter's Wonder Woman. But today we're watching the one superhero show that caught my imagination the most.
1:45.1	Dr. David Banner, Physician Scientist.
1:48.0	That show was the Incredible Hulk, starring Bill Bixby and Eighty's Body Builder, Luforigno.
1:53.1	In the show, Scientist David Banner is accidentally exposed to a bunch of gamma rays,
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