Learn about how to feel less excluded and why it’s so important, with special guest Vivian Zayas, Director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University. Plus, learn about a new device that makes sound go one-way. In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about a new device that scientists have developed that makes sound go one-way: https://curiosity.im/2K3bTVc 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 to feel less excluded and why it’s so important, with special guest Vivian Zayas, Director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University. Plus, learn about a new device that makes sound go one-way.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about a new device that scientists have developed that makes sound go one-way: https://curiosity.im/2K3bTVc
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/overcoming-the-incredible-power-of-exclusion-w-vivian-zayas-and-a-one-way-sound-device
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 the surprising power of exclusion, AND why and how you can control it, with special guest Vivian Zayas [TS-eye-us]. You’ll also learn about a new device that scientists have developed that makes sound go one-way.
CODY: Let’s satisfy some curiosity.
Vivian Zayas 5 - Power of exclusion scenario, theories around why, and how to overcome it (6:35) (Both)
CODY: Ongoing research may have found some insights into how you can feel less excluded, and how you can help others feel more included. In the final edition of our “Mentality Mondays” mini-series, you’ll hear about some very exciting research from Vivian Zayas, Director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University.
ASHLEY: Last week, Professor Zayas told us about a game called Cyberball that researchers use to test things like feelings of social exclusion and social loneliness. It’s basically a game of catch that you play with two other people on a computer, although the two other “people” are really just algorithms. And once those computer players stop throwing the human player the ball, that player typically gets pretty upset, even if he KNOWS he’s just playing with computers and not real people.
CODY: Well if you thought those results were extreme, then wait’ll you hear this. Here’s Professor Zayas with an experiment her team did to see how people would respond to a more ambiguous exclusion scenario.
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CODY: So to recap: the spread of exclusion basically says that if you’ve got a friend who invites you to a party or fancy event, but DOESN’T invite most your friends, your friends MIGHT see you as being “in” on that exclusivity — like you were part of the decision, even though you had nothing to do with it. AND your friends might even be less nice to you and act more guarded or cautious. Pretty rough, right? Now let’s get into WHY this might be.
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CODY: The key takeaway? Try not to be so quick to lump people together. Because think about it: that person who was included in that exclusive person’s plans? COULD be a potential ally. It could be someone who wants to work with you, or help you out. Put ‘em in a box and label them as part of some other group just because they were included in something you weren’t included in, and that’s one less potential ally.
ASHLEY: We hope you enjoyed the final episode of our “Mentality Mondays” mini-series. You’ve been hearing from Vivian Zayas, Director of the Personality, Attachment, and Control Laboratory at Cornell University. We’ve shared our full uncut interview with our Patrons, so if you support Curiosity Daily, then head over to patreon-dot-com-slash-curiosity-dot-com if you want to download the whole thing. You can also hear Professor Zayas and other experts on Cornell University’s podcast series called “What Makes Us Human.” We’ll include links to all that and more in today’s show notes.
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Scientists Have Developed a Device That Makes Sound Go One-Way — https://curiosity.im/2K3bTVc (Ashley)
A team of Yale researchers has developed a device that makes sound and other vibrations flow in one direction. And this opens up a world of possibilities for transmitting sound and heat. Before I get into how IT works, here’s a quick refresher on how SOUND works. All sounds are transmitted through vibrations. For example, your voice causes your vocal cords to vibrate, and then the sound is carried through the air by vibrating particles. These vibrations have different amplitudes and frequencies. Amplitude is the size of the vibration, or how loud the sound will be; and frequency is the speed of the vibration — as in, how many wave cycles happen per second — and that determines the sound’s pitch. There are tons of devices out there to make sounds in certain frequency ranges louder or quieter: musical instruments are designed to amplify certain frequencies, and car mufflers are engineered to absorb sound. Devices like that are called acoustic resonators, and the Yale team used two acoustic resonators to make sound go one way. Specifically, they had two acoustic resonators, where sound stored in the first resonator could leak into the second, but not the other way around. They used a laser light that works like a sort of “tuning knob." When it’s trapped between two mirrors, the force of the laser can make a sound wave's vibrations weaker or stronger, depending on the wave's direction. And they expanded the one-way sound technology to apply to other types of vibrations, like heat waves. They can make heat flow from point A to point B, or from B to A, regardless of which one is colder or hotter. It would be like dropping an ice cube into a glass of hot water and having the ice cubes get colder and colder while the water around them gets warmer and warmer. With continued development, we could use this technology to make noisy equipment quieter, protect the components of delicate electronics, and create more clear two-way communication between things like cell phones. We’ll keep sending our podcast one-way into your ears in the meantime.
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