Learn about new research into the implicit attitudes people have in close relationships with others (and more) from Vivian Zayas, Director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University. 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 new research into the implicit attitudes people have in close relationships with others (and more) from Vivian Zayas, Director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University.
Resources from Cornell University:
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Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/our-implicit-attitudes-new-research-into-human-relationships-w-vivian-zayas
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 cutting-edge relationship research from Cornell University.
CODY: Let’s satisfy some curiosity.
Vivian Zayas 2 - Relationships with humans aren’t all good or bad, according to ongoing research (8:23) (Both)
CODY: The way we feel about people, like our friends and family, is a lot different than the way we feel about objects, like coffee or bugs. Okay, that’s probably obvious, but HOW we feel differently about these things might surprise you. That’s based on what Ashley and I learned from Vivian Zayas, the director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University.
ASHLEY: You’ll be hearing Professor Zayas on the “Mentality Mondays” mini-series we’re running during our normal episodes for the next few weeks. But today, we’re doing a full episode takeover. You’re going to hear an amazing story from our conversation that we just couldn’t cut up. We figured the best time to break from our usual format would be on a holiday, and it’s Memorial Day here in the United States, so... here we are! Happy Memorial Day, by the way!
CODY: As we learned last week, some of the research coming out of Professor Zayas’ lab is looking into things like our implicit self-esteem. That’s basically the way you evaluate yourself in a spontaneous, automatic, or unconscious manner. It’s how your brain decides you feel about something before you’ve even consciously registered it. The lab is also looking into partner evaluations; or, basically, the way you feel about another person before you consciously register it.
ASHLEY: Sounds like a tall order, right? I mean, how exactly is a researcher supposed to figure out how you feel about someone before YOU even know how you feel about them? Well here’s Professor Zayas with one method researchers use to measure implicit self-evaluations and partner evaluations.
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CODY: So there ya go: being human means feeling that other humans are a lot more than just good or bad. Again, Vivian Zayas is the Director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University. You can hear her and many other experts on Cornell University’s podcast series called “What Makes Us Human,” now in its fourth season. You can find links to that podcast and more in today’s show notes.
ASHLEY: 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!