Why Limits Make You Lash Out, Cash vs Cards, Odds of Dying
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Learn why you act irrationally when your freedom is threatened; why you spend more with your credit card than you do when you use cash; and how statisticians calculate the probability of dying from something.
The stories in this episode originally aired July 29, 2018 “Odds of Dying (w/ Ken Kolosh), Reactance, Credit Card Psychology” https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/odds-of-dying-w-ken-kolosh-reactance-credit-card-p
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.8 | Today you learn about why you act irrationally when your freedom is threatened, |
| 0:11.6 | why you spend more with your credit card than you do when you use cash, |
| 0:15.2 | and how statisticians calculate the probability of dying from something, |
| 0:18.9 | with help from Ken Colash from the National Safety Council. |
| 0:22.1 | We originally ran these stories on July 29th, 2018, |
| 0:25.9 | and they're so good we remastered them just for you. |
| 0:28.9 | And as always, stick around for a brand new recap segment |
| 0:32.4 | at the end of today's episode so you can hear |
| 0:34.4 | our fresh takes on all of today's stories but right now let's satisfy some |
| 0:38.3 | curiosity. |
| 0:39.3 | Actually do you ever have the instinct to do the opposite of what you're told to do? |
| 0:43.0 | Yes, a lot, yeah. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm extremely, extremely guilty of this. |
| 0:48.0 | I can get really stubborn. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | Yes. I'm glad we've never butted heads. |
| 0:55.0 | Well, today we wrote about a psychological quirk that I have not seen super widely discussed. |
| 1:01.0 | It's a name for when humans acts out, sometimes irrationally, when they think their freedom |
| 1:06.6 | is under threat. We do it to re-establish our sense that we're free, and psychologists call |
| 1:12.2 | this reactants. I am so glad there's a term for this. |
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