Quitting Smoking Doesn’t Lead to Food Cravings, Narcissism Over Time, and Seeing Photons
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how people become less narcissistic as they get older; how it’s possible that we can see a single photon with the naked eye; and, new research that says cigarette smokers won’t crave more food if they quit smoking.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Most People Become Less Narcissistic With Age — Unless They Have These Characteristics — https://curiosity.im/2VpSq4e
- Can You See a Single Photon With Your Naked Eye? — https://curiosity.im/2n1gI7q
- New Research Says Time Away from Cigarettes Doesn't Make Smokers Crave Food — https://curiosity.im/2nds7kA
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.0 | Today you learn about how people become less narcissistic as they get older, |
| 0:11.0 | how it's possible to see a single photon with a naked eye, and new research that |
| 0:15.2 | says you won't crave more food if you quit smoking. |
| 0:18.1 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:20.0 | Research shows that most people become less narcissistic as they get older. |
| 0:24.3 | So parents, if your teenager seems totally self-obsessed, don't worry, |
| 0:28.8 | they'll probably grow out of it. |
| 0:31.2 | Probably. |
| 0:32.4 | There are some people who hang on to those narcissistic |
| 0:34.7 | leanings into middle age and you might be surprised about the implications of |
| 0:38.4 | that. But before we get to narcissism in adulthood let me back up and talk |
| 0:42.3 | about the research. This comes from a new international |
| 0:45.2 | study from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Scientists set out to track how narcissism levels |
| 0:51.6 | changed over 23 years in a group of freshmen from UC Berkeley. |
| 0:57.2 | More than 200 participants filled out narcissism evaluations when they were 18 and then they did it again when they turned 41. |
| 1:04.0 | The results showed a clear link between narcissism levels and age. |
| 1:09.0 | Most people became less narcissistic and only about 3% of participants became more narcissistic. |
| 1:16.0 | But the team didn't stop there. They zoomed in on how different facets of narcissism changed as well. |
| 1:22.4 | Now previous research has broken narcissism down into three facets, |
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