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Schadenfreude, with Aaron Balick
Your Brain On Climate
English - August 11, 2022 20:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsEarth Sciences Science Society & Culture Philosophy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We love it when someone gets what's coming to them - whether it's an individual we know personally and dislike, someone from a group we hate, or someone we just generally think is a wrong'un. That's schadenfreude - literally, "joy damage". Grubby, wonderful feeling.
But what does schadenfreude do for us, psychologically? Is it a good and useful thing or a harmful thing? And can it be harnessed - or should it be feared - when trying to do something about the climate crisis?
Joining Dave this episode is Dr Aaron Balick - pyschotherapist, author, academic and all round nice chap. He specialises in applying psychological phenomena to everyday life. You can follow him on twitter @DrAaronB.
Extra reading as highlighted by the owl noises:
-- 06:03: A YouTube explainer, involving icebergs, of Freud's ideas about the ego, id, and super-ego.
-- 19:41: More on Freud's ideas about projection and transference.
Your Brain on Climate is a podcast about human psychology vs the climate crisis: what we think, why we think it, and how it all adds up to a planet-sized emergency. Contact the show: @brainclimate on Twitter, or [email protected].
The show is hosted by Dave Powell, who you can find @powellds on Twitter. All original music throughout the show and audio production is by Dave, because he's far too much of a control freak to let anyone else loose on it.
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