Hidden Brain
A conversation about life's unseen patterns
Angels came in different flavors. Most were young and all were eager to please — dream women for a certain kind of man — dreamed up, of course, by another man. Emily Bogle/NPR hide caption
!["Compassion is contagious," Professor Scott Plous says. "We talk about paying it forward; the idea that if you do something good for another person [...] it sets off a kind of chain reaction."](https://web.archive.org/web/20151107084940/http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/10/13/hidden-brain-compassion_wide-27230ab9bb215804c14a6e5f01a0f7a1814e292c-s300.jpeg "\"Compassion is contagious,\" Professor Scott Plous says. \"We talk about paying it forward; the idea that if you do something good for another person [...] it sets off a kind of chain reaction.\"")
"Compassion is contagious," Professor Scott Plous says. "We talk about paying it forward; the idea that if you do something good for another person [...] it sets off a kind of chain reaction." Hanna Barczyk for NPR hide caption
Researcher Hunter Gehlbach found that helping students and teachers find things in common improved academic outcomes. iStockphoto hide caption
The World Series of Poker main event in Las Vegas in 2014. When Annie competed in this event, just 3 percent of the entrants were women. AP hide caption
Switchtracking, as defined by author Sheila Heen, is when "someone gives you feedback, and your reaction to that feedback changes the subject." Hanna Barczyk for NPR hide caption
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