Rachel Carlson

But we also were able to join each other's worlds. And this joining of worlds was proof that these kinds of conversations can happen. Yeah. Jeannie and Richard have been married for a really long time, and they have so much mutual respect for one another. That's a really key baseline component of these conversations, and it's not a given for everyone you meet. Absolutely.

It's not easy, but we're going to try to work through it. So today on the show, the neuroscience of disagreement. When we have the opportunity to engage with someone who thinks differently than we do, what's going on in our brains, and how can we make the most of those conversations?

It's not easy, but we're going to try to work through it. So today on the show, the neuroscience of disagreement. When we have the opportunity to engage with someone who thinks differently than we do, what's going on in our brains, and how can we make the most of those conversations?

It's not easy, but we're going to try to work through it. So today on the show, the neuroscience of disagreement. When we have the opportunity to engage with someone who thinks differently than we do, what's going on in our brains, and how can we make the most of those conversations?

Okay, Emily, imagine that you and I are about to have a disagreement. So our pupils might dilate, our heart might start racing, and we might start to sweat a little more.

Okay, Emily, imagine that you and I are about to have a disagreement. So our pupils might dilate, our heart might start racing, and we might start to sweat a little more.

Okay, Emily, imagine that you and I are about to have a disagreement. So our pupils might dilate, our heart might start racing, and we might start to sweat a little more.

That's Rudy Mendoza-Denton. He's a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. Rudy co-teaches a class from Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center on bridging differences. He says we might not even notice these things while they're happening to us. But on top of all of them, we start making these split-second decisions about whether or not we trust someone just by looking at their faces.

That's Rudy Mendoza-Denton. He's a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. Rudy co-teaches a class from Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center on bridging differences. He says we might not even notice these things while they're happening to us. But on top of all of them, we start making these split-second decisions about whether or not we trust someone just by looking at their faces.

That's Rudy Mendoza-Denton. He's a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. Rudy co-teaches a class from Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center on bridging differences. He says we might not even notice these things while they're happening to us. But on top of all of them, we start making these split-second decisions about whether or not we trust someone just by looking at their faces.

Those decisions, though, aren't always accurate.

Those decisions, though, aren't always accurate.

Those decisions, though, aren't always accurate.

Who's that? That's Aurielle Feldman-Hall, a researcher and social neuroscientist at Brown University. And she says when we interact with someone we've decided is untrustworthy, or even someone who just belongs to another group than us, our amygdala starts to respond. Yeah, our amygdala. That is like our brain's threat detector. It's like a smoke alarm.

Who's that? That's Aurielle Feldman-Hall, a researcher and social neuroscientist at Brown University. And she says when we interact with someone we've decided is untrustworthy, or even someone who just belongs to another group than us, our amygdala starts to respond. Yeah, our amygdala. That is like our brain's threat detector. It's like a smoke alarm.

Who's that? That's Aurielle Feldman-Hall, a researcher and social neuroscientist at Brown University. And she says when we interact with someone we've decided is untrustworthy, or even someone who just belongs to another group than us, our amygdala starts to respond. Yeah, our amygdala. That is like our brain's threat detector. It's like a smoke alarm.

I found a study from 2021 looking at exactly that. So I called up the lead researcher Joy Hirsch to talk about it. She's a neuroscience professor at Yale School of Medicine. And the beauty of this study is that Joy and her team monitored the brains of multiple people at once while they talked to each other. Which is so, so cool because it's pretty new in the neuroscience world.

I found a study from 2021 looking at exactly that. So I called up the lead researcher Joy Hirsch to talk about it. She's a neuroscience professor at Yale School of Medicine. And the beauty of this study is that Joy and her team monitored the brains of multiple people at once while they talked to each other. Which is so, so cool because it's pretty new in the neuroscience world.

I found a study from 2021 looking at exactly that. So I called up the lead researcher Joy Hirsch to talk about it. She's a neuroscience professor at Yale School of Medicine. And the beauty of this study is that Joy and her team monitored the brains of multiple people at once while they talked to each other. Which is so, so cool because it's pretty new in the neuroscience world.

Usually you're just looking at one person's brain at a time. Right. You're just like slid under an MRI machine. Exactly. And in this case, people wore these things that looked like swim caps on their head and they have these little thingies all around the caps. Little thingies. What's that for? It's literally the term that Joy used when we were talking about it.