Oh hey hey up top this is an encore presentation of one of the most favorite episodes of allergies we have ever done because we all want to know what's in me why am I this and I'm taking

a few weeks off if you have been following what's been going on in my life my family.

Your grandpa has passed into the beyond so I'll just come out and say right in the beginning my dad Larry Pete Ward passed away on Friday July 8th after a long illness with multiple myeloma which is a cancer recover in the hematology episode.

If you're thinking of him or thinking of us people have been posting hashtag Criter Pick for grandpa he loved sending pictures of critters in the morning to us every morning and all day and that has really meant a lot to me.

Tiny ice cream cones were one of his favorites we sat around eating those a lot have a tiny ice cream cone for your grandpa.

If you feel like donating anywhere if you've got a local wildlife rescue you loved critters maybe help them out a little bit and the IMF myeloma dot org has been really amazing to us and giving us so much information through his illness so.

If I talk too much about it I will start crying a lot I'll talk a little bit more about it at the outro but here is an encore presentation of a great episode I hope you like it.

Oh hey it's your all roommate who always subscribe to magazines that you read but were too embarrassed to buy alleyward back with another episode of apologies okay so please imagine me right now I'm wearing a Sherlock Holmes flappy will overcoat that smells like a wet dog in the rain also I have a walrus mustache and a decorative pipe because we're about to investigate the mysteries of the psyche what makes you you who are you who am I why are we like this.

First let's show some goddamn gratitude for one second and say thank you to everyone on patreon who supports a show for a dollar or more a month also all the folks getting allergies merch and allergies merch dot com and all the nice people who hit subscribe and who rate the show who leave reviews like a friendliness fairy in the night for me to read for example this week from Lola Juju who says I love alleyward thank you Lola Juju I love you too.

I also love science and learning when I heard about this it was better than I could have imagined I can learn about different allergies while I'm at work are getting ready for work once my 11 year old daughter got wind of this podcast from me she started listening to I never told her to she just listened on her own so Lola Juju thank you for sharing the gift of allergies with your 11 year old I'm very sorry that I am teacher had a swear

okay onward word personality psychology I really wish that there was a weirder documented name for this allogy and for second I thought the academic study of personality could apply I was like yes but the guy who coined personality Henry Murray essentially peed on the word to make it his forever and he had a really heavy hand in founding the study of personality that's great but he's also noted is having done some hell is sketchy and maybe damaging experiments on a young man named

Ted Kaczynski who later became a terrorist known as a unibomber dr. Murray also linked to government mind control experiments mk ultra not to be confused with mclob ultra so my point is personality was off the table for this

episode title we had to go with the clunkier well respected and academically recognized personality psychology so this allogist had been on my list for months and one chilly

December day I made my way to UC Davis to meet her on a corner near campus and I drove by one minute late and I screamed out the window hold on I have to park thinking it would take like one second to park because school wasn't even in session it was December 26 but the city was under construction so I

just circle the block maybe fifty two times and then I was seven minutes late to the corner I felt like a very bad not conscientious person but she was so cool about it we walked to her office where she is a professor in the department of psychology

she's also been a fellow at the center for advanced study in the behavioral sciences at Stanford University and her focus is on people's own awareness of their

personalities and how personality and relationships influence your life and make it suck more or less so she's co-authored papers with titles like others sometimes know us better than we know ourselves

and this salty goodness you probably think this paper is about you narcissists perception of their personality and reputation she studies all the stuff that if you're sitting next to her on an airplane you'd be like tell me everything before this flight to Japan

and so we chatted about first impressions introverts extroverts and birds narcissists psychopaths whether or not psychology researchers believe self reported data how parenting affects personalities and if you're

doing your kids up what personalities work best together if astrology is in any way on point some textbooks you'd actually want to read and I essentially ask her ten different ways why am I this so get comfy and gaze into your brain with someone I wish I could call a

personologist but that Murray dude made it awkward for everybody so instead we'll just use the more common and scientifically acceptable personality psychologist Dr. Simeen Fizzir

Dr. Watchman

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