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445. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?

Freakonomics Radio

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Stephanie Coontz: In times of stress, i tend to seek the familiar and the comfortable. She says some would argue that emotions like fear get us to withdraw a little bit from new things. But happiness and safety and contentment tend to get us to be a litle more venturesome she says. So how can we cheat? How can we give ourselves the appetite to go beyond the comfortable? Maybe even if it involves tricking ourselves into reverting to the most comfortable stuff?, coontz asks....

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