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CM 223: Chantel Prat on How Every Brain Is Different

Curious Minds at Work

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Are You Curious About Something Unknown?

Our brains really like to be able to predict the future that makes us feel comfortable and makes us have some sense of control. So if your prediction goes wrong, or you find yourself in a place where I don't have enough experience with this context to make a prediction,. That's when that critical appraisal phase kicks in. We need to learn more about the mental spaces in which we feel threatened or curious because I think our brains protect us from perceived psychological threats as well as they do from perceived physical threats.

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