Playing Tight And Loose

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We all know people who prefer to follow the rules, and others who prefer to flout them. Psychologist Michele Gelfand defines these two ways of being as "tight" and "loose." She says the tight/loose framework can help us to better understand individuals, businesses, and even nations. This week, we look at the core traits of tight and loose worldviews, and how they may shape our lives — from interactions with our spouses to global efforts to fight the coronavirus.

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0:00.0	From NPR, this is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:05.0	It all started at a live fish and meat market in Wuhan, a city in Central China.
0:12.0	No one knows exactly how or when, but one day late last year, a coronavirus leaped from an animal into a human.
0:21.0	Before long, people all around Wuhan started getting sick.
0:25.0	We know what happened next. To curb the spread of this coronavirus, China announced a draconian lockdown of more than 11 million people in Wuhan.
0:36.0	No one in, no one out.
0:41.0	What we're seeing and hearing on the internet is police and hazmat suits going door to door, taking people away who either have a fever or go to the hospital.
0:51.0	No one in, no one out.
0:56.0	No one out. What we're seeing and hearing on the internet is police and hazmat suits going door to door, taking people away who either have a fever or are rumored to have been in contact with someone who did.
1:10.0	Containment is the goal here and using whatever means is necessary.
1:16.0	By the time China had set up these containment measures, the virus had slipped outside of Wuhan.
1:22.0	It began spreading to other places across the globe. From South Korea,
1:27.0	two patients may have contracted the disease from someone who was infected here in the nation or whom you are standing by on the line.
1:34.0	To Italy.
1:36.0	The government's contentment of the epidemic for the region is 14 provinces, in between and in the region.
1:43.0	Not only that, it emerged as an early hotspot for that nation.
1:46.0	Near the end of February, the Italian government began imposing travel restrictions on residents of the Lombardi region.
1:54.0	But it was too late. On March 8th, with the virus spreading wildly, the government locked down some 16 million people in Lombardi and 14 neighboring provinces.
2:05.0	In theory, it means that people are not supposed to leave those areas, but in fact the authorities simply haven't had the time and perhaps not even the resources to make this a reality.
2:18.0	In Milan and in other areas affected by the lockdown, people raised the train stations trying to get out before it's too late.
2:27.0	Many of those people fleeing Lombardi brought the virus with them to other parts of Italy.
2:32.0	Very soon, the death toll in Italy versus the death toll in China told its own story.
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