32 - Ethan Kross: Why We Talk to Ourselves and How to Make Our Inner Voices Work in Our Favor
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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Do Distant Self Talk or Talk to Some One Else?
i can engage in distant self talk whenever i want, right in my mind. And so it's very easy for me to do that in terms of talking to some one else. But if all you and i do is just vent and complain about something ind a conversation, what that ends up doing is leading to something called co rumination. We're ruminating together about things that may make us feel really good about us, but long term predicts a host of negative consequences. The best kinds of conversations are our conversations that do two things: help people reframe what they 're going through in ways that are useful when it comes to our chatter. So there are people in my life who im
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