(Pandemic Edition) Exponential Growth & Emotions

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

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🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Emotions researcher Jeff Larsen returns to the show to explain exponential growth and how exponential growth distinguishes the threat of a pandemic like the Corona Virus up against the threat of the flu. Even more importantly, we exam the importance and difficulty of cognitive reflection. We also explore a mix of emotions. Jeff is a Professor of Psychology at The University of Tennessee Knoxville https://psychology.utk.edu/faculty/larsen.php Read, Learn, and Support The Show: All support on Patreon goes to my team: https://www.patreon.com/shanemauss I have an overworked editor, assistant, and media person trying to help me crank out lots of extra episodes of infotainment during this crisis. Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Here We Are Podcast. Return guest today Jeff Larson, he is a social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee.
0:13.0	Jeff, how are you?
0:15.0	Just like everybody else, I'm trying to hang in there.
0:18.0	It feels like the 13th Sunday in a row.
0:21.0	Oh my gosh.
0:22.0	But you know, Sunday's not such a bad day. Yeah,
0:26.2	Sunday's a we're done with Mondays. We don't have Mondays anymore. Yeah no more
0:30.9	Mondays. That's great. No more Mondays, no more Mondays. No more Fridays. I've got kids anyway, so I haven't had Fridays in a while.
0:36.4	Sundays are pretty good. No Wednesday, Hump Day. Just nothing but Sundays.
0:43.0	They're suspecting there's going to be a baby bone so you know as far as the hump day thing.
0:48.0	You know I was I was really hoping a time like this was going to make people be like, you know what? Maybe now's not the best
0:56.2	time to be making more kids and tell things settle down a little bit.
1:02.4	I agree completely. You know actually I did read though.
1:06.6	Well so another day we can talk about climate change. I teach a whole class on psychology of climate change.
1:13.0	No, I mean, we got the time.
1:16.0	Why don't, we can take this conversation anywhere?
1:18.0	Yeah, so there's evidence that I believe it's in Bangladesh that as the sea level is rising,
1:30.0	which is really problematic for Bangladesh because the average height above sea level of Bangladesh
1:35.7	is about this much, right?
1:38.8	But so what you're seeing, and of course this is a place
1:41.6	where there's arranged marriages.
1:43.0	And so what you're seeing is that daughters are being married off even younger than they used to be
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