The Psychology of Reality TV (Dear Shandy interview)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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00:00 Intro to Dear Shandy
02:42 Dr. Kirk's favorite & least favorite parts of reality TV
05:49 Falling in love on TV
10:26 Dating on your level
15:25 Brainwashing and re-education
23:06 Learned helplessness & narcissism
27:23 Being vulnerable
30:02 Does dating on TV affect the relationship?
31:36 Reality TV ethics
37:04 Viewers of reality TV
44:16 Do reality TV & social media reward narcissism?
48:38 Dr. Kirk's favorite TV shows
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June 12, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. Today's episode is an interview. I was on another podcast and they |
| 0:05.1 | interviewed me about reality TV and some other things. The podcast is called Dear Shandy, |
| 0:12.4 | and it's a great podcast, I think. It was one of the funnest, most interesting |
| 0:18.0 | interviews I've ever done. Maybe the most fun, interesting, entertaining, engaging interview I've |
| 0:24.2 | ever done in my life, honestly. I just thought it was really, I mean, it helped that the host was being |
| 0:31.6 | very nice to me. But really, it just, I learned a lot because the podcast is hosted by a couple |
| 0:39.9 | and the couple is Charlene joint and Andy Levine, or Levine, not sure. And Charlene was on the |
| 0:47.6 | bachelor looking on Wikipedia. She was a contestant on the 18th season of the bachelor and says |
| 0:55.6 | here she quit in week seven, Charlene joint. She's a fellow HAPPA and she's also a professional |
| 1:03.2 | opera singer. If you look her up, Charlene joint, it is impressive. She's a soprano and boy, |
| 1:10.8 | can she belt it? As a very amateur singer myself, I'm just think how in the world do you |
| 1:19.9 | manage without amplification to sing so perfectly and so brightly and so loudly? |
| 1:28.0 | Because it's made for the stage before they had amplification. So in this interview, Charlene |
| 1:34.0 | describes her own experience being on the bachelor and it was an interesting look behind the scenes |
| 1:40.4 | about what it's like and also the psychology behind it. So let's listen to this episode. |
| 1:45.2 | Welcome back to Dear Shandy listeners. Hello, Andy. How are you today? |
| 1:49.5 | I'm excited. I am too. Yes. You know who might be even more excited than us, though, even though |
| 1:54.4 | we are very excited, is our shandys. Because let me tell you, when we came out with our first love |
| 1:59.8 | is blind recap earlier in April. It was our first time ever watching or recapping love is blind. |
| 2:05.8 | Everyone was like, you must get Dr. Honda. It was not optional. It was our most liked YouTube |
| 2:12.0 | comment of the season. Yes. He's both a therapist and professor. He has a doctorate in psychology |
| 2:17.2 | and a master's in marriage and family therapy, making him, I think, very qualified as a therapist. |
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