Maya Shankar
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1,518 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jul
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Listen to A Slight Change of Plans on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Dr. Maya Shankar, a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast, A Slight Change of Plans, a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans.
We share stories and scientific insights to help us all better navigate these periods of turbulence and transformation.
Listen to A Slight Change of Plans on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast, A Slight Change of Plans, a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans.
We share stories and scientific insights to help us all better navigate these periods of turbulence and transformation.
Listen to A Slight Change of Plans on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Why are we all so obsessed with romance?
Each episode digs into what these stories reveal about desire, fantasy, identity, and how we love now.
When we do catastrophize, when we think there's no way I can possibly get through this, research shows people are often far more resilient than they think on the other side.
It's true that the good stuff is often not as good as you think it's going to be, but the bad stuff is often not as bad as you think it's going to be.
Thanks so much for having me, Mike.
Yeah, that's a very beautiful and elegant way of seeing it.
You're exactly right.
Our brains are not wired to like uncertainty, and change is often accompanied by a lot of uncertainty.
And that can be a very destabilizing thing.
One of my favorite research studies shows that people are...
more stressed when they're told they have a 50% chance of getting an electric shock than when they're told they have a 100% chance of getting an electric shock.
So we would rather be certain sometimes that a bad thing is going to happen than to have to grapple with any of that uncertainty.
And yet, like you said, the human mind is incredibly resilient and adaptable.
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