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Aug 2021
28m 46s

You 2.0: Regrets, I Have a Few...

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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We all have regrets. By some estimates, regret is one of the most common emotions we experience in our daily lives. In the final episode of our You 2.0 series, we bring you a favorite interview with Amy Summerville, the former head of the Regret Lab at Miami University in Ohio. After years of studying this emotion, she says she's learned something that may s ... Show More
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