Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about cutting edge relationship research from Cornell University.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

The way we feel about people, like our friends and family,

is a lot different than the way we feel about objects, like coffee or bugs. Okay, that's probably obvious,

but how we feel differently about these things might surprise you.

That's based on what Ashley and I learned from Vivian Zias, the director of the Personality

Attachments and Control Laboratory at Cornell University.

You'll be hearing Professor Sius on the Mentality Monday's mini series

we're running during our normal episodes for the next few weeks.

But today we're doing a full episode takeover. You're going to hear an amazing story from our

conversation that we just couldn't cut up. We figured the best time to break from

our usual format would be on a holiday and it's Memorial Day here in the

United States so here we are.

Happy Memorial Day by the way.

As we learned last week, some of the research coming out of Professor Zias' lab is looking

into things like our implicit self-esteem.

That's basically the way you evaluate yourself

in a spontaneous, automatic, or unconscious manner.

It's how your brain decides you feel about something

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