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The Fun of Eating a Pepper Hotter Than the Sun

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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How Does the Rumble of a Crowd Affect Us?

The sound of the roaring crowd somehow managed to inspire them, even though they knew that it was a recording. The Yale philosopher Tamara Gendler's work has explored cases in which pretend things like the roar of a recorded crowd, affect how we feel and behave. It's really funny to think that you can simultaneously know that something is fake and respond to it as if it were real. But when you start to realize that that's a possibility, you realize that it happens all the time.

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