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What Your Brain Does in an Emergency & Solitude Vs Loneliness

2024/8/22
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Mike Carruthers: 本期节目探讨了狗的色觉、人们在灾难中的反应、独处与孤独的差异以及手机卫生等话题。 Amanda Ripley: 人们在灾难中的反应存在三个阶段：否认、权衡和决定。在灾难中，普通人才是拯救生命的最大力量，提前做好心理准备，预料到否认阶段，并学习冷静技巧至关重要。人们对灾难的恐惧程度取决于可控性、熟悉程度、痛苦程度、破坏规模、不公平性和可想象性等因素。 Netta Weinstein: 独处与孤独是不同的概念。独处是你想要的时间，而孤独是你通常不想要的时间。人们对独处的偏好受先天基因和后天学习的影响，并且会随着人生阶段变化。人们对独处的偏好存在社会偏见，喜欢独处的人常被误解为有缺陷或不适应社会。以往对独处偏好的测量方法存在缺陷，未能区分真正享受独处的人和厌恶社交的人。每个人对独处需求不同，没有统一标准，应根据自身情况找到平衡。找到独处和社交的平衡能带来平静、自主和满足感。独处在社会上存在负面形象，常被误解为孤独和消极情绪。语言习惯将独处与孤独混为一谈，导致人们对独处产生负面联想。内向者和喜欢独处的人之间并非完全重合，外向者也需要独处时间。人们应重视独处时间，将其视为放松和自我照顾的机会，而非社交之间的空隙。独处和社交能带来不同类型的积极情绪，独处能带来平静和放松。 Mike Carruthers: 本期节目还探讨了手机卫生问题，手机比大多数马桶座圈携带更多细菌，应定期清洁。

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Contrary to popular belief, dogs are not colorblind. They can see colors, but their color vision is different from humans. Dogs can distinguish blue and yellow, but not red and green.
  • Dogs see colors differently than humans.
  • They can differentiate blue and yellow, but not red and green.
  • A red toy may appear dark brown, gray, or black to a dog.

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Are dogs color blind? Many people believe so, but they are not. They do see color but not the way we do. This episode begins with a look at what colors they can and can’t see and why it is important. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/canine-corner/200810/can-dogs-see-colors)

How you will react in an emergency or disaster is hard to predict. Yet how people react can make the difference between life and death. It’s not just physical preparation but also mental – to think about what you will do. Here to explain the process your brain goes through when an emergency or disaster strikes and offer some suggestions on how to better plan for them is Amanda Ripley. She is a writer whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications and she is author of the book, The Unthinkable Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--and Why (https://amzn.to/4fGJakN).)

Some people like their solitude more than others. They cherish their time alone. Yet there is a stigma about solitude. People often think that others who spend a lot of time alone must have something wrong with them or they must be lonely or have no friends. Not necessarily. In the right dose, solitude can be very powerful. Joining me to discuss this is Netta Weinstein is an internationally recognized psychologist and director of the European Research Council's 'Solitude: Alone but Resilient (SOAR)' project. She is also professor of psychology at the University of Reading and an associate researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Netta is author of the book Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone (https://amzn.to/3X1XkWf).)

Your cellphone is crawling with germs – more than you realize. You touch it all the time, you take it everywhere and put it down on all kinds of surfaces. Listen as I reveal how all the junk on your phone can make you sick – and the simple solution to make sure that doesn’t happen. https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/quick-dose-is-your-cell-phone-making-you-sick)

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