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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Why Are We Learning About This Now?
The last time i taught this class, one student asked me at the very beginning, why are we learning about this now? And my initial response to her was to diffuse some of the tension in the air by saying, you know, fear not. You'll probably have opportunities to manage your emotions after you graduate college. But short of that, i didn't have a good response. So what i did was like a classic professor deflection move, that is, that's a good question. What does everyone else think about that? Why do you think you haven't learned about it? Which got me through the class, but left me pretty unsatisfied that couldn't answer that question. And
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