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Parenting and the Brain with Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

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Is Your Brain Running a Budget for Your Body?

Young adults are very certain about their own experiences or the way the world is. That's caled naive realism. And so i think when those simple feelings of affect, if mood, are really strong, it tends to go along with certainty. You know, your brain's main job is to regulate your body. It's attempting to monitor and budgeta resources like salt and glucos an water. The worst thing for a human body budgeti's another human because humans can be unpredictable and uncertain. But basically, it's hard for adolescents. Their mood is sort of all over the place, which makes them confident in their own interpretations of things. They don't see their culpability in that

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