No Stupid Questions31 Dec 2023

63. How Contagious Is Behavior? With Laurie Santos of “The Happiness Lab.” (Replay)

Why do we mirror other people’s accents? Does DJ Khaled get tired of winning? And also: life is good — so why aren’t you happy?

SOURCES:
- Albert Bandura, professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University.
- John Bargh, professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University.
- Tanya Chartrand, professor of marketing at Duke University.
- Clay Cockrell, psychotherapist and founder of Walk and Talk Therapy.
- Iain Couzin, director of the department of collective behavior at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.
- William Irvine, professor of philosophy at Wright State University.
- Daniel Kahneman, professor emeritus of psychology at Princeton University.
- Stephen Kosslyn, professor emeritus of psychology at Harvard University.
- Cristine Legare, professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Kevin Ochsner, professor of psychology at Columbia University.
- Amos Tversky, professor of psychology at Stanford University.

RESOURCES:
- "How to Escape the Hedonic Treadmill and Be Happier," by Anna Katharina Schaffner (Positive Psychology, 2016).
- “Revealing the Hidden Networks of Interaction in Mobile Animal Groups Allows Prediction of Complex Behavioral Contagion,” by Sara Brin Rosenthal, Colin R. Twomey, Andrew T. Hartnett, Hai Shan Wu, and Iain Couzin (PNAS, 2015).
- “A Calm Look at the Most Hyped Concept in Neuroscience — Mirror Neurons,” by Christian Jarrett (WIRED, 2013).
- “The Chameleon Effect: The Perception–Behavior Link and Social Interaction,” by Tanya Chartrand and John Bargh (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999).
- “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk,” by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (The Econometric Society, 1979).
- “Transmission of Aggression Through Imitation of Aggressive Models,” by Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross, and Sheila A. Ross (Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1961).

EXTRAS:
- "Why Are Rich Countries So Unhappy?" by No Stupid Questions (2022).
- "Do You Mind if I Borrow Your Personality?" by No Stupid Questions (2022).
- “Episode 2: The Unhappy Millionaire,” by The Happiness Lab (2019).
- The Happiness Lab.

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