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Feb 2019
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Dr. Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD in Communication Pathology and a BSc in Logopedics and Audiology, specializing in metacognitive and cognitive neuropsychology.

She joins Jonathan to discuss how negative interactions can affect a person, optimism bias and our neurologically need for it, why we remember bad experiences instead of the good ones, and more.

You can learn more about Dr. Leaf’s work at https://drleaf.com/. She’s on Twitter and Instagram @DrCarolineLeaf.

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