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Feb 2019
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What Is Toxic Stress and Why Is She So B...

Sony Music Entertainment / Jonathan Van Ness
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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 ... Show More
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