Alison Wood Brooks

Totally. And what it has shown me is even though we're so good at predicting what the other person will do, we have this tight knit, which psychologists would call shared reality. You're better at predicting what your twin's going to do than probably anyone else in the world. And I still don't know exactly what she's thinking and feeling. Yeah.

It just shows you even when you have so much in common, you have the same upbringing, the same genes, so many shared experiences, you still can't read people's minds. There's still a mystery element. You can get close.

It just shows you even when you have so much in common, you have the same upbringing, the same genes, so many shared experiences, you still can't read people's minds. There's still a mystery element. You can get close.

It just shows you even when you have so much in common, you have the same upbringing, the same genes, so many shared experiences, you still can't read people's minds. There's still a mystery element. You can get close.

The more you interact with somebody, the more you actually care and are good at pattern recognition and pick up on patterns in their behavior and how they think, you can get better at it, especially within specific relationships. But you still don't know perfectly what Monica's thinking all the time.

The more you interact with somebody, the more you actually care and are good at pattern recognition and pick up on patterns in their behavior and how they think, you can get better at it, especially within specific relationships. But you still don't know perfectly what Monica's thinking all the time.

The more you interact with somebody, the more you actually care and are good at pattern recognition and pick up on patterns in their behavior and how they think, you can get better at it, especially within specific relationships. But you still don't know perfectly what Monica's thinking all the time.

Exactly right.

Exactly right.

Exactly right.

Yeah. And emotions.

Yeah. And emotions.

Yeah. And emotions.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I realized that there was a lot of research in clinical psychology about anxiety and the sort of high level anxiety that requires medication or. therapy. And I was like, you know what, though? Everybody's feeling anxious a lot of the time, and it's influencing how they're walking through the world, all of the decisions they're making, all of these choices, how they talk to other people.

I realized that there was a lot of research in clinical psychology about anxiety and the sort of high level anxiety that requires medication or. therapy. And I was like, you know what, though? Everybody's feeling anxious a lot of the time, and it's influencing how they're walking through the world, all of the decisions they're making, all of these choices, how they talk to other people.

I realized that there was a lot of research in clinical psychology about anxiety and the sort of high level anxiety that requires medication or. therapy. And I was like, you know what, though? Everybody's feeling anxious a lot of the time, and it's influencing how they're walking through the world, all of the decisions they're making, all of these choices, how they talk to other people.

I wonder if there's a way that we can study anxiety in that way, that's sort of outside the sphere of clinical psych as a pathology that needs diagnosis, which is obviously so important. But what about the sort of lower grade normal anxiety that most people are feeling a lot of the time? Let's figure out how that's influencing the choices that they're making as they go through their day.