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#290 - Dr Diana Fleischman - How Catching Covid Can Change Your Personality

Mar 4, 2021

Dr. Diana Fleischman, a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, dives into how catching COVID-19 can change personality traits. She explains why illness alters behaviors, such as the aversion to new foods. They'll discuss how health impacts belief in free will and social dynamics, including reduced extroversion when sick. Diana also touches on the link between physical health and mental well-being, exploring long-term effects on anxiety and relationships post-illness, wrapped in an evolutionary psychology perspective.

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Intro

2min

Exploring Personality Changes Post-Covid

2min

Illness and Identity: The Behavioral Shift

21min

Unpacking Dietary Dilemmas

9min

The Impact of Facial Similarity on Human Cooperation and Recognition

3min

COVID's Lasting Impact on Mental Health

12min

Social Signaling: Extroversion vs. Physicality

4min

Nature, Nurture, and Identity

21min

Dr Diana Fleischman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth and an author.

When we get sick with a virus like Covid-19, our bodies respond, but our behaviour and personality also change in a number of important ways and sometimes, it doesn't change back.

Expect to learn why avoiding new foods when ill makes evolutionary sense, whether needing the bathroom reduces your belief in free will, why extraversion is reduced when you're sick, what Diana thinks about Evolutionary Psychology's place in mindfulness and much more...

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