Is It Easier to Regulate Yourself?

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The smell of smoke triggers me, but i know that it triggers me myife. So i use base tin rationalize whether to be worried or not. And it can help reassure me when i'm tricked. I wonder if this is helpful to people who are not artisticnd ina, empathizing with people who are. It sounds like you have to work so much hardera to sort of regulate yourself in a much more explicit and cognitive way. You mention in the bais chapter that you went clubbing, not because you were really excited to go clubbing, but because this was an experiment you needed to do to collect some data. Do you think you learned about human beings a little

Being a human is tricky. There are any number of unwritten rules and social cues that we have to learn as we go, but that we ultimately learn to take for granted. Camilla Pang, who was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at age eight, had a harder time than most, as she didn’t easily perceive the rules of etiquette and relationships that we need to deal with each other. But she ultimately figured them out, with the help of analogies and examples from different fields of science. We talk about these rules, and how science can help us think about them.

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Camilla Pang received her Ph.D. in computational biology from University College London. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in pharmaceuticals and a volunteer cancer researcher at the Francis Crick Institute. She was awarded the Royal Society Prize for Science Books in 2020 for her book Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Relationships (US title: An Outsider’s Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me about What We Do and Who We Are).

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