It's time to play the quiet game, the game where you could win a quieter life. Stage one: spray all the door hinges in your home with w d forty. Stage two: turn off every appliance in your home and then turn them back on again. Stage three: consider adding more soft materials to your home so it can soak up sound. stage four: put your phone in silent mod - this will make sure that when you call for helpyour phone should work for you instead of other way around. Congratulations, you have won yourself a quieter lives.
Some sounds bring happy memories flooding back. Other sounds put us on edge; drive us to distraction; or cause us considerable distress. Sound matters... so why don't we pay more attention to our sonic environment?
In a mash-up with our friends at the podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz, Dr. Laurie Santos joins Dallas Taylor to create a Handbook for Sonic Happiness explaining how sound can harm our wellbeing or be a route to greater happiness.
Featuring auditory psychologist David Poeppel, psychology researcher Giulia Poerio, clinical psychologist Ali Mattu, sound scholar Mac Hagood and acoustician Trevor Cox.
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