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Here We Are

Television + Social Connection

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Shane talks with Social Psychologist Shira Gabriel about watching television, social needs, and social connections. What can researching TV watching tell us about parasocial relationships with Reality TV stars and why sharing your favorite TV Series strengthens relationships. Charity Of The Week: Stitch Buffalo Please visit our sponsors: The Great Courses www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare  Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE  Outro Music "I Can't Breath" by Spirit Of The Bear Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

SkyPains and you.

0:03.0

Hello everybody, I'm comedian Shane Moss.

0:06.0

Welcome to my science podcast.

0:09.0

Here we are.

0:10.0

Have a terrific one today a podcast about the science of TV watching. How about them apples?

0:21.3

It's a real good one had a lot of of fun you guys are going to enjoy it and I

0:25.7

wanted to give you an update because I plugged the Great Courses Plus last week

0:32.3

the Great Courses Plus.com slash here we are by the way.

0:36.5

And I mentioned that I was just about to start a course called Redefining Reality, the Intellectual Implications of Modern Science,

0:48.0

hadn't started it at the time that I just watched the trailer for it or whatever and since that time I've almost

0:56.8

finished the whole course in a week I've been usually I'm kind of all over the place with things I got like a few books

1:05.5

going I'm watching other talks I'm maybe taking a couple different classes and and I'm I kind of go based on my mood which is one of the great

1:16.2

things about the great courses I do have like five different classes that I'm taken at the

1:20.8

moment and just whatever I'm feeling I get into but this course I've been

1:28.0

burning right through because it's real good it's it's a really really really great thorough history of science and how we've come to understand and think about things in the way we do today.

1:47.0

And so started with like a really great breakdown of the world of physics which was a really good refresher for me.

1:57.0

It's been ages since I've read a physics book and then kind of moved into early ideas of evolution and then genetics and then the

2:10.7

beginnings of psychology and sociology and how those things evolved

2:16.1

over time. I'm now toward the... Actually I don't know how close I am toward the end.

2:21.4

I think I'm like, I don't quite remember how many

2:24.0

many lectures there but I think I'm like 30 lectures in or something like that

2:28.0

and getting into the the history of economic theory and it's done in such a fantastic way.

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