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Jul 2024
51m 28s

Befriending Your Inner Voice

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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You know that negative voice that goes round and round in your head, keeping you up at night? When that negative inner voice gets switched on, it’s hard to think about anything else. Psychologist Ethan Kross has a name for it: chatter. In this favorite conversation from 2022,  we talk with Ethan about how to keep our negative emotions from morphing into chatter. 

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