S3 Ep7: The Science Behind Gossip with Eshin Jolly

Normal Gossip

Comedy

4.7 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Dr. Eshin Jolly joins us this week to teach us about the science of gossiping!!! Eshin is a post-doctoral researcher in the Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at Dartmouth College.

Follow Eshin on Twitter @Eshjolly.

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0:00.0	It's like, it's complete chaos energy.
0:02.1	Like, mathematically, this is the fucking butterfly effect, right?
0:05.2	Like, this is just, you're ruining people's lives.
0:07.8	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Hi, and welcome to Normal Gossip. I'm Kelsey McKinney.
0:13.8	In each episode of this podcast, we're gonna bring you an anonymous
0:17.0	morsel of gossip from the real world.
0:19.3	Today, I am thrilled to welcome the first doctor ever to be on this podcast.
0:23.6	Dr. Eshin Jolly is here to teach us about the science of gossiping.
0:27.6	Eshin is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the computational social
0:31.2	effective neuroscience laboratory at Dartmouth College, where he also completed his PhD.
0:37.2	His research focuses on how humans form psychological impressions and
0:40.4	construct neural representations of other people and ultimately how these
0:44.0	representations change as they are transmitted between individuals.
0:47.3	Eshin, welcome!
0:49.2	Thank you. Super excited to be here.
0:51.0	I'm thrilled that you're here. Can you start me off by telling me what all those
0:55.1	words mean in your bio? Yeah, so I did my PhD at Dartmouth and currently working here
1:03.1	right now as a postdoc. I'd say like, I'm mostly interested in understanding
1:07.3	how people think about other people and so that can happen sort of at the level of,
1:11.8	you know, our psychology, what are thoughts and feelings, what are other people thinking and
1:15.6	feeling. But I'm also super interested in the underlying sort of neural representations,
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