Learn about how researchers study how we mentally represent our relationships with special guest Vivian Zayas, Director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University. Plus, learn about a regimen you can follow to help you pursue your passion — despite your day job. In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about how you can follow your passion despite your day job: https://curiosity.im/2Yh5dWQ Additional resources from Cornell University: Cornell University’s “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series — https://as.cornell.edu/humanities Hear Vivian Zayas on the “Love Science” episode of the What Makes Us Human?” podcast — https://as.cornell.edu/news/love-science Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University — http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~pac_lab/ Vivian Zayas’ Cornell University research bio — https://research.cornell.edu/researchers/vivian-zayas If you love our show and you're interested in hearing full-length interviews, then please consider supporting us on Patreon. You'll get exclusive episodes and access to our archives as soon as you become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/curiositydotcom Download the FREE 5-star Curiosity app for Android and iOS at https://curiosity.im/podcast-app. And Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing — just click “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing.
Learn about how researchers study how we mentally represent our relationships with special guest Vivian Zayas, Director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University. Plus, learn about a regimen you can follow to help you pursue your passion — despite your day job.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about how you can follow your passion despite your day job: https://curiosity.im/2Yh5dWQ
Additional resources from Cornell University:
If you love our show and you're interested in hearing full-length interviews, then please consider supporting us on Patreon. You'll get exclusive episodes and access to our archives as soon as you become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/curiositydotcom
Download the FREE 5-star Curiosity app for Android and iOS at https://curiosity.im/podcast-app. And Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing — just click “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing.
Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/mentally-representing-our-relationships-w-vivian-zayas-and-a-passion-pursuit-regimen
CODY: Hi! We’re here from curiosity-dot-com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. I’m Cody Gough.
ASHLEY: And I’m Ashley Hamer. Today, you’ll learn about how researchers study the way we mentally represent our relationships, with special guest Vivian Zayas from Cornell University. You’ll also learn about a daily regimen that can help you pursue your passion — despite your day job.
CODY: Let’s satisfy some curiosity.
Vivian Zayas 1 - How do we mentally represent our relationships and how to researchers study that? (Cody)
CODY: There’s some really cool ongoing research looking into how humans feel about each other. And I’m not talking about how we SAY we feel; I’m talking about how we REALLY feel. Starting today and over the next few Mondays, you’re gonna learn about some of the ways researchers are testing their hypotheses, along with some super-interesting results that various experiments have shown thus far. It’s all part of our “Mentality Mondays” mini-series, and it stems from a conversation we had with the Director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University, Vivian Zayas. Here’s Professor Zayas with an overview of her research, followed by a specific example of an unconscious bias you just might have.
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CODY: So there ya go: the name-letter effect is the tendency to prefer the letters in your name over other letters in the alphabet. This is just scratching the surface of findings coming out of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University. Buckle up, because next week, you’ll hear again from the lab’s director, Vivian Zayas, and learn about the surprisingly complicated feelings people have for one another. You can also hear her and many other experts on Cornell University’s podcast series called “What Makes Us Human,” now in its fourth season. Their episodes are really interesting — and even shorter than ours, at about 4 to 6 minutes long. You can find links to that podcast and more in today’s show notes.
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To Follow Your Passion Despite Your Day Job, Do What This Famous Author Did — https://curiosity.im/2GO72Dr (Ashley)
You can follow your passion despite your day job, and we’ve got a daily regimen to help you do it. If you don’t believe me, then keep in mind that this regimen worked for author Anthony Trollope [TROLLOP]. In his lifetime, he wrote 47 novels and 16 other books, and most of that was while he was an employee of the post office. Can you say “hashtag-goals”? [ad lib]
ASHLEY: Anthony Trollope was born in London in 1815, so sure, he didn’t have to deal with distractions like Facebook or Snapchat. Still, more than two dozen of his books had been published by the time he retired at the ripe old age of 52, so it’s probably safe to say that he was more disciplined than your average Victorian era Joe. Here’s what he wrote in his autobiography: quote, "It was my practice to be at my table every morning at 5:30 a.m.; and it was also my practice to allow myself no mercy. By beginning at that hour, I could complete my literary work before I dressed for breakfast. All those I think who have lived as literary men — working daily as literary labourers — will agree with me that three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write," unquote. BUT, Trollope said, not all hours are made equal. It's easy to set aside time to write, and it’s also easy to end up sitting around staring at your wall trying to think of ideas. To combat this, Trollope set mini-goals: He watched the clock and made a rule that he would write 250 words every 15 minutes. With that responsibility before him, the ideas just happened. That merciless approach got results, in the ballpark of writing more than 10 pages of an ordinary novel volume every day. That would net you 3 novels of 3 volumes in a single year, although he said he never did write 3 novels in a year. Still, it really was just that simple! Working three hours a day adds up to quite a lot over a lifetime. So what's stopping you? Just set your alarm, lay out your stopwatch, and allow yourself “no mercy.” [ad lib]
CODY: Join us again tomorrow for the award-winning Curiosity Daily and learn something new in just a few minutes. I’m [NAME] and I’m [NAME]. Stay curious!