What podcasts say about Nicholas Epley
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What Nicholas Epley has said on podcasts
25 statements · 18 positive · 4 negative · 1 mixed · 2 neutral
Inferring others’ mental states helps predict their subsequent behavior.
“But it also is pretty good at allowing me to predict what you're likely to do next.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 5:07
Stereotypes contain some accurate information about group differences.
“stereotypes contain a fair bit of accuracy to them.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 7:01
Human two-year-olds outperform chimpanzees and orangutans on social reasoning tasks.
“That's where the two year old toddlers were shining. That's where we were crushing the competition on those social IQ problems.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 13:57
A person’s voice can authentically reflect their conscious mental state.
“your voice can reflect authentically what's going on in your mind.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 18:08
Humanlike AI voices will be trusted more than text-only AI outputs.
“My prediction would be that you can trust it more when you hear what it has to say. As long as it mimics really well a human voice.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 26:50
Moving from social isolation to any social contact produces the largest wellbeing improvement.
“going from no contact to some contact is the biggly.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 31:29
Being alone is associated with a wellbeing difference seven times larger than a $60,000 income difference.
“the difference between spending yesterday alone versus somebody else, the difference in your well being on these other measures is about seven times bigger than being relatively high or low on their income measure”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 32:33
Texting maintains relationships but is less effective than phone conversation for building them.
“It is not good for building a relationship necessarily over time. Like, if we're going to spend a half hour typing to each other, it's not a good way to spend that half hour. I'd be much better at picking the phone and talking to you to help establish that relationship.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 33:41
Loneliness increases cortisol and compromises cardiovascular and immune functioning.
“when you're lonely, you get spikes in cortisol in your bloodstream that compromises your cardiovascular functioning, that compromises your immune system.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 36:07
Coordinated, cooperative groups outperform groups lacking cooperation.
“groups that are able to coordinate with each other collectively cooperate with each other in ways that are good for the common good. Those groups outperform groups where people are just at each other's throat, nobody's cooperating.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 49:09
People systematically underestimate strangers’ interest in engaging with them.
“We find in our work that people underestimate how interested others are in engaging with them.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:04:04
People are overly pessimistic about others’ positive responses to friendly outreach.
“we find over and over again people are overly pessimistic, overly afraid about how positively other people will respond to them when you reach out to them in a positive way.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:05:08
Extroversion correlates substantially with day-to-day happiness.
“Correlation between happiness, positive affect, day to day and extroversion is 0.5.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:19:04
Both extroverts and introverts report better daily mood when spending time with others.
“Over the course of a person's day, extroverts and introverts report feeling better alike when they're spending time with other people than when they're alone.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:20:36
Reaching out positively to others can improve wellbeing regardless of introversion or extroversion.
“if people open themselves up a little bit more to other people, try to reach out and connect in positive ways with other people, the porcupines in our lives are not making themselves happier by keeping their quills out and keeping to themselves.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:21:51
Real-world exposure, rather than imagined practice, is required to overcome social anxiety.
“It has to be real.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:25:09
Exposure therapy changes mistaken beliefs underlying social anxiety.
“Exposing people to that thing that they're anxious of when the belief is misplaced. And with social anxiety, it is usually wildly misplaced.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:25:28
Jia Jiang received acceptance more often than rejection during rejection-exposure experiments.
“He actually is rejected less often than he is accepted.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:30:13
Jia Jiang was accepted 51 times and rejected 48 times in documented requests.
“he's accepted 51 times, if I remember right, and rejected 48 times.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:30:29
People agree to requests more often than requesters predict.
“People are just much more likely to agree than you think.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:32:08
People with social anxiety should begin with small, safe social interactions.
“my suggestion is just like when you're starting anything that you're nervous about or hard you've never exercised. The prescription is always to start small. Pick a little thing that's easy and safe.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:40:27
Social interaction skills improve through approach and practice, not avoidance.
“Those are skills you develop by approaching. You don't develop them by avoiding.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:41:05
In most United States locations, prospective families wait to adopt children with Down syndrome.
“You can adopt a child with down syndrome today in the United States, and there's a waiting list for these kids in most places.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 1:57:33
Patience is the appropriate response to people whose behavior or communication is atypical.
“Patience is, I think, the way to deal with.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 2:06:31
Parents’ repeated social habits influence children who observe them.
“if you can think about how can you cultivate those habits to do these things routinely because your kids are watching all the time, that's what's going to matter.”
Open the episode · How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick EpleyListen at 2:24:23
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