Alison Wood Brooks

And the difference between micro kindnesses and micro harms, sometimes when you're looking at a transcript, they look very subtle. But I think in the emotional experience of those interactions, the difference can be massive in terms of how much you are conveying that you believe that you matter and how much you care about the other person and convey that they matter.

Thank you so much for having me, John. I'm so happy to be here.

Thank you so much for having me, John. I'm so happy to be here.

Thank you so much for having me, John. I'm so happy to be here.

Thank you so much. I'm really excited to share it with the world.

Thank you so much. I'm really excited to share it with the world.

Thank you so much. I'm really excited to share it with the world.

Oh my gosh, the story, the journey. Well, as an undergrad, I was very interested in, I thought I wanted to go to medical school originally. So I've long had a passion for humans and caring about people.

Oh my gosh, the story, the journey. Well, as an undergrad, I was very interested in, I thought I wanted to go to medical school originally. So I've long had a passion for humans and caring about people.

Oh my gosh, the story, the journey. Well, as an undergrad, I was very interested in, I thought I wanted to go to medical school originally. So I've long had a passion for humans and caring about people.

And as an undergrad, I had the great privilege of taking courses from some really amazing behavioral scientists that made me fall in love with behavioral science rather than going to medical school. So I took the judgment and decision-making course with Danny Kahneman. I think it was the last time he ever taught it. He was co-teaching it at the time with Eldar Shafir.

And as an undergrad, I had the great privilege of taking courses from some really amazing behavioral scientists that made me fall in love with behavioral science rather than going to medical school. So I took the judgment and decision-making course with Danny Kahneman. I think it was the last time he ever taught it. He was co-teaching it at the time with Eldar Shafir.

And as an undergrad, I had the great privilege of taking courses from some really amazing behavioral scientists that made me fall in love with behavioral science rather than going to medical school. So I took the judgment and decision-making course with Danny Kahneman. I think it was the last time he ever taught it. He was co-teaching it at the time with Eldar Shafir.

And I remember taking that class before Danny had won his Nobel Prize. And just thinking, this is so fascinating. Like what an amazing way to come to understand each other and the world is through the study of people. And so that was the beginning of my journey.

And I remember taking that class before Danny had won his Nobel Prize. And just thinking, this is so fascinating. Like what an amazing way to come to understand each other and the world is through the study of people. And so that was the beginning of my journey.

And I remember taking that class before Danny had won his Nobel Prize. And just thinking, this is so fascinating. Like what an amazing way to come to understand each other and the world is through the study of people. And so that was the beginning of my journey.

I did some research internships in the summer as an undergrad at Columbia University and fell more and more deeply in love with it, decided that this was the life path for me. And I went to I applied to grad school and went to Wharton and worked with Maurice Schweitzer and Katie Milkman and Adam Grant. So in a way, just stumbled into this incredible milieu of behavioral scientists.

I did some research internships in the summer as an undergrad at Columbia University and fell more and more deeply in love with it, decided that this was the life path for me. And I went to I applied to grad school and went to Wharton and worked with Maurice Schweitzer and Katie Milkman and Adam Grant. So in a way, just stumbled into this incredible milieu of behavioral scientists.

I did some research internships in the summer as an undergrad at Columbia University and fell more and more deeply in love with it, decided that this was the life path for me. And I went to I applied to grad school and went to Wharton and worked with Maurice Schweitzer and Katie Milkman and Adam Grant. So in a way, just stumbled into this incredible milieu of behavioral scientists.

And I studied people's feelings, mostly anxiety, like how can we come to understand why so many of us feel anxious so much of the time and what can we do about it? Which then led me to my professorship at Harvard, where at the beginning I was recruited to teach negotiation and presumably to do research on negotiation and people's emotions and negotiation.