Allison Briscoe-Smith
Appearances
Short Wave
How To Have Hard Conversations
Yeah. I hear often, if I talk to that person, am I subject to violence? That's clinical psychologist Allison Briscoe-Smith. I am not inviting people to have a conversation with people that are violent towards you or dehumanizing towards you. That's not a requirement. Like, actually, your humanness is there. We can all kind of discern.
Short Wave
How To Have Hard Conversations
And bridging differences actually doesn't require or ask us to do that. So that's kind of like step zero.
Short Wave
How To Have Hard Conversations
Can you slow this down just a little bit so you can kind of come back into yourself, your body? Can you take a breath and then align with the intention?
Short Wave
How To Have Hard Conversations
I'm not talking about persuasion, debate. I'm not even talking about having my mind changed. When I talk about bridging differences, I mean about the mere connection with another person and the space around seeing that person as a human.
Up First from NPR
The Science of Disagreeing Well
Joy told me, these people were not... pretending. They were not like debaters that take, you know, a negative side and a positive side.
Up First from NPR
The Science of Disagreeing Well
And her working hypothesis for what this means is... The sharing of information involves higher levels of communication, that people are learning, so that there's a consensus there. of what is being shared, what's going on.
Up First from NPR
The Science of Disagreeing Well
The amount of territory that the brain has devoted to disagreement was astonishing to me. And this is beyond the data. The observation that so much neural energy is consumed by disagreement, and there are so many areas that are coordinated during disagreement, that tells me that this is a very important Huh. Others might have other interpretations.
Up First from NPR
The Science of Disagreeing Well
Yeah. I hear often, if I talk to that person, am I subject to violence? That's clinical psychologist Allison Briscoe-Smith. I am not inviting people to have a conversation with people that are violent towards you or dehumanizing towards you. That's not a requirement. Like, actually, your humanness is there. We can all kind of discern.
Up First from NPR
The Science of Disagreeing Well
And bridging differences actually doesn't require or ask us to do that.
Up First from NPR
The Science of Disagreeing Well
Can you take a breath? Yeah. Can you slow this down just a little bit so you can kind of come back into yourself, your body? Can you take a breath and then align with the intention?
Up First from NPR
The Science of Disagreeing Well
I'm not talking about persuasion, debate. I'm not even talking about having my mind changed. When I talk about bridging differences, I mean about the mere connection with another person and the space around seeing that person as a human.