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This week, Scott sits down with Dr. Ben Rein, a Stanford neuroscientist and one of today’s most engaging science communicators. Dr. Rein has spent over a decade studying the neuroscience of social interaction, and his new book, Why Brains Need Friends: The Neuroscience of Social Connection, explores how our relationships shape our minds and well-being.
Highlighted moments
people predicted that over 50 percent of the time they would get rejected and across hundreds of trials, 0 percent of the time where they rejected the stranger never said no to a conversation.
“There's a measured psychopathy, I guess you could say, embedded in the human brain, right? You need to disengage sometimes when it's important for your survival. But, you know, nowadays, I think that these systems are being taken advantage of, I think, and we're really starting to see this disengagement from people who really should stay in our good graces.”
“if you flip the script and instead of collaborating, you are competing with each other. You have the parent and the child compete. The interbrain synchrony just completely vanishes.”
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