Anxiety and Social Selection
Randolph explains how anxiety is triggered by danger and how it can overshoot, causing people to care more than necessary about what others think of them. He also discusses how natural selection has shaped us to care about what others think, as it affects our social selection.In this clip
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377: Randolph Nesse | Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
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