Superbugs and Antibiotic Resistance (w/ Dr. Matt McCarthy) and Third-Person Pep Talks

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Learn why talking to yourself in the third person can help you keep your emotions in check. Then, learn about “superbugs” (and why we need to stop them) with Dr. Matt McCarthy, author of the new book “Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic.”

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about research that suggests talking to yourself in the third person can benefit your mental health: https://curiosity.im/2I2Raxy

Additional resources from Dr. Matt McCarthy:

Pick up “Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic” on Amazon — https://amazon.com
Official website — http://www.drmattmccarthy.com/
Follow @DrMattMcCarthy on Twitter — https://twitter.com/drmattmccarthy
What Superbug Hunters Know That We Don’t | The New York Times — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/opinion/hospitals-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-superbugs.html

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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 why talking to yourself in the third person can help you keep your emotions in check.
0:11.0	You'll also learn about superbugs and why we need to stop them with Dr
0:15.4	Matt McCarthy author of the new book Superbugs the race to stop an epidemic
0:19.7	but satisfy some curiosity here's a fun trick.
0:23.0	Research suggests that talking to yourself in the third person
0:26.3	is great for your mental health.
0:27.8	Cody does this all the time.
0:29.2	Ashley does too.
0:30.2	Nice.
0:31.6	This comes from a 2017 study published in the Nature Journal Scientific Reports.
0:36.0	Researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Michigan wanted to see how volunteers emotions were affected by the way they talked to themselves during negative experiences.
0:45.8	In the first experiment, the volunteers looked at a series of negative and neutral images while researchers
0:50.6	recorded their brain activity on an EEG machine.
0:54.0	While they looked, half of the volunteers asked themselves,
0:56.8	what am I feeling right now?
0:58.4	And the other half asked the same question,
1:00.3	but used their own names in the third person.
1:02.5	So for instance, if I was a study participant,
1:05.0	I'd say, what is Ashley feeling right now?
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