Normal Gossip

S3 Ep7: The Science Behind Gossip with Eshin Jolly

Oct 19, 2022

01:23:06

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Is the Code Not Working?

01:37

How Do You Manipulate Ricky to Hire the Person That You Need?

01:38

Zoe's Like, I Love This Room

01:31

Introduction

2min

Isolating the Real World in the Lab Setting?

2min

The Public Goods Game

3min

How Does the Mixture Change When People Can't See Everything?

2min

How Can We Predict How We're Going to Act in a Game?

3min

Do You Consider Yourself a Gag?

5min

How Do I Survive This Day When a Truck Pulls in Next to Me?

2min

Zoey Parks at the Back of a Strip Mall

2min

Escape Rooms - Is This a Real Strip Mall?

2min

10.

Is This Like a Theme Crime Mystery Escaper?

2min

11.

How to Talk Shit Inside Escape Artists

2min

12.

Escape Artist

2min

13.

Are You Stressed? Yeah. I'm Just Like Dancing and What?

5min

14.

The Rage Room People Are Never Early, Right?

2min

15.

I'm Just Waiting. What's the Actual Cost?

2min

16.

How to Fix a Gun on a Wall

2min

17.

The Gun Is Broken, What Do I Do?

2min

18.

I'm a PhD Student, I'll Get Drinks With My Manager

2min

19.

Zoe's Like, I Love This Room

2min

20.

How Do You Manipulate Ricky to Hire the Person That You Need?

2min

21.

How to Get Ricky to Help You in the Smashroom?

2min

22.

The God Voice Is Just Like a Joker That Has Like 10 Octaves Deeper Than Me

2min

23.

Rothy's Perversal Boots Are Perfect for Fall and Winter

3min

24.

How Do You Think They Could Have Prevented This?

2min

25.

Is the Code Not Working?

2min

26.

The Ideal Hint in an Escape Room

2min

27.

What Do You Think Zoe Should Do?

2min

28.

What Do You Need for Me as a Manager to Fix These Issues?

2min

29.

Is There Something Else Going On?

2min

30.

Can I Babysit My Room?

2min

31.

Magic Spoon Frozen Craze Is Good for You

4min

32.

The Axe Boys and Zoe's Handcuff Room

3min

33.

The Fire Truck Shows Up and Zoe Calls Ricky

2min

34.

The Axe Place and the Rage Room

2min

35.

The Small Arms Supply - A Fucking Fantastic PhD Student

2min

36.

Zoe's a Fucking Champ

2min

37.

I'm Fucking Idiot, or I Hate Him

2min

38.

Is It Ricky's Company? Yeah. Yeah. Yelp Reviews?

2min

39.

Girl Kyle, I'm Not on Your Side, but Good Luck.

2min

40.

Can You Pull Up the Waiver?

2min

41.

What the Fuck Is This About?

2min

42.

Are You Still Employed?

3min

Dr. Eshin Jolly joins us this week to teach us about the science of gossiping!!! Eshin is a post-doctoral researcher in the Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at Dartmouth College.

Follow Eshin on Twitter @Eshjolly.

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Episode transcript here.

Follow the show on Instagram @normalgossip, and if you have gossip, email us at normalgossip@defector.com or leave us a voicemail at 26-79-GOSSIP.

Normal Gossip is hosted by Kelsey McKinney (@mckinneykelsey) and produced by Alex Sujong Laughlin (@alexlaughs).

Credits recorded by Ben Sattinger.

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