You Can Control Your Dreams with Science
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Learn how fathers benefit from being involved with their newborn babies, what you can do to control your dreams with science, and why the asterisk is used for corrections.
Being Involved with the Baby Early on Benefits a Father's Mental Health by Kelsey Donk
- Greater father involvement in infant parenting is beneficial for paternal mental health. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/f-gfi091720.php
- Bamishigbin, O. N., Wilson, D. K., Abshire, D. A., Mejia-Lancheros, C., & Dunkel Schetter, C. (2020). Father Involvement in Infant Parenting in an Ethnically Diverse Community Sample: Predicting Paternal Depressive Symptoms. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.578688
You Can Control Your Dreams with Science by Ashley Hamer
- Saunders, D. T., Roe, C. A., Smith, G., & Clegg, H. (2016). Lucid dreaming incidence: A quality effects meta-analysis of 50 years of research. Consciousness and Cognition, 43, 197–215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2016.06.002
- Aspy, D. J., Delfabbro, P., Proeve, M., & Mohr, P. (2017). Reality testing and the mnemonic induction of lucid dreams: Findings from the national Australian lucid dream induction study. Dreaming, 27(3), 206–231. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000059
- Want to control your dreams? Here’s how you can. (2017). Adelaide.Edu.Au. https://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news95682.html
When did we start using asterisks for corrections? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Aya from South Africa)
- Petronzio, M. (2012, October 25). A Brief History of Instant Messaging. Mashable. https://mashable.com/2012/10/25/instant-messaging-history/
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- Johns, K. (1996). Netiquette Smilies & Shorthand. Kassj.Com. http://www.kassj.com/netiquette/smilies.html
- Zimmer, B. (2013). Language Log » The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks. Upenn.Edu. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4466
- What the Duck?? (2020, August 21). Department of Linguistics. https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/2020/08/21/what-duck
- Collister, L. B. (2011). *-repair in Online Discourse. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(3), 918–921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.025
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Natalia Reagan. |
| 0:09.2 | Today you learn about how fathers benefit from being involved with their newborn babies, how you can control your dreams with science and when people started |
| 0:17.2 | using an asterisk to correct typos. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:28.0 | When a baby's born, they need close contact with adults to thrive. But a new study now shows that someone else can benefit from close contact with a new baby. |
| 0:33.6 | Dads, being involved with the baby early on |
| 0:36.7 | benefits of father's mental health. |
| 0:39.2 | And I think we're all thinking about Cody right now at the story. |
| 0:43.0 | It may come as a surprise to learn that mothers aren't the only ones who can experience post-partum depression, |
| 0:50.0 | sometimes known as the baby blues. |
| 0:52.0 | Around 8 to 10 percent of father sometimes known as the baby blues. |
| 0:53.0 | Around 8 to 10% of fathers feel low |
| 0:56.0 | during those first few months of parenthood too. |
| 0:58.0 | But past research has mostly focused on how a father's involvement with his baby |
| 1:02.0 | affects the baby and the mother. |
| 1:04.8 | This study is the first to look at how that involvement influences the father's own well-being. |
| 1:11.1 | For a study recently published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, researchers interviewed 881 dads from low-income areas and diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds in the United States. |
| 1:22.0 | They talked to the dads a month after their babies were born. and racial backgrounds in the United States. |
| 1:22.6 | They talked to the dads a month after their babies were born |
| 1:25.4 | and asked them about how much time they spent with the new baby. |
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