Getting stuck in the negatives (and how to get unstuck) | Alison Ledgerwood | TEDxUCDavis

Alison Ledgerwood joined the Department of Psychology at UC Davis in 2008 after completing her PhD in social psychology at New York University. She is interested in understanding how people think, and how they can think better. Her research, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, investigates how certain ways of thinking about an issue tend to stick in people’s heads. Her classes on social psychology focus on understanding the way people think and behave in social situations, and how to harness that knowledge to potentially improve the social world in which we all live.
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Brain Games Season 5 Episodes
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Keeping it real is the key,
lol how it started
it all comes down to money – have apartment, have car, money in investments, inheritance on the way.talk nasal.
The fact that people can't do basic math questions is rather depressing.
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wasn't the first thing she said was that she can't dance?
We have four songs on this topic. LOVE this topic! Thank you :-)
Staying negative is probably an effect of our evolution, a survival technique. As an event "tanks" we become more cautious and tank with it. Then even after the situation is stable we tend to have the attitude "let's wait and see if its really safe". If you reach your hand out to pet a dog and get bit, the next time you see a dog you are likely to be cautious about touching it (continuing negativity) but that may keep you safe. I see it as totally natural.
I suspect that this 'bias' is cultural.
i.e. that we are 'trained' to think of the negative (just like we can 'train' ourselves to think of the positive)
Have there been any studies into this phenomenon in non-western cultures?
Micro-cultures could work too… a pre-industrialised area perhaps?
I have to watch this for school lol
FFS LOL SIMPLE – EASIER GOING DOWN HILL HARDER GOING UP HILL.
I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE BRAIN GAMES!
I'M IN THIS EPISODE. I'M IN THE AUDIENCE WEARING PURPLE.
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Begening
I seem the lady at the beeging
This episode made me happy. I think I'm going to go to class and pass my midterm.
This show was better when NPH ran it. Motivational horse shit is not entertaining.
thank u this is so cool
when you had to make stories for the first or "sad" one i said hmmm maybe he was crying because he was offered an AMAZING deal so he's going to somewhere good same with the other one