Amit Kumar
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301 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Amit Kumar’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that makes a scientist curious as to, well, why don't we?
And so one of the ways that we investigated this was by having participants write a gratitude letter to somebody else who had impacted them in some way.
And we again had those participants make predictions about how their recipient would feel as a result of their letter.
And what we found when recipients told us how they really felt, and we kind of compare those responses to expectations, was that
Senders significantly underestimated how surprised recipients would be about why they were grateful.
They overestimated how awkward or uncomfortable recipients would feel.
And they didn't realize just how positive it would feel to be on the receiving end of one of these letters.
Yeah, so it's essentially participating in this experiment.
So they write a letter to somebody else.
They make a prediction about how that person will feel.
We contact their recipients.
We find out how they really feel.
And I kind of show the data to the students in my class.
I think what's powerful for the students is that they learn that they exhibit the same effects that have been found in published research.
So we've
replicated these results kind of time and time again.
I suspect that it's useful or this research might be more meaningful.
It might potentially have a bigger impact on one's own life if you kind of participate directly, if you experience it yourself rather than just kind of hearing about the results from experiments you didn't participate in.
thanked her for everything that she had done for him.
And at the end of his letter, he wrote the words, I love you.
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