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S2E03: Your Mind on Loneliness & Social Connection, with Dr. Elisa Baek

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How to Increase Neuro Similarity in Brain Regions

There's this one recent study that showed that you can increase inner-subject correlation in the brain so you can get individuals to have increased neuro similarity in brain regions by having them do like ambiguous tasks. I think about empirically based interventions to promote these kind of engagements more. There's also some work that's being done at UCLA not in my current lab but in some of the early grad students and this is super early work But it was during the pandemic people actually came out of having conversations with someone who had very different views on a very polarized topic such as abortion, gun,. Both individuals came out feeling a little bit more connected to the others.

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