Emotional Misattribution: Your brain is hanging upside down

Tania and Brian explore emotional misattribution - when we think we're feeling one thing, but we're actually feeling something else. They talk about hanger, nervous-excitement, sexy fear, The Ramones, and much more.

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Further Reading:

• Extraneous factors in judicial decisions by Danziger, Levav, & Avnaim-Pesso (2011)
• Feeling Hangry? by MacCormack & Lindquist (2019)
• Violence restrained: Effects of self-regulation and its depletion on aggression by DeWall, Baumeister, Stillman, & Gailliot (2005)
  • See the Baumeister (1996) study that launched ego-depletion research.
• Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-Performance Anxiety as Excitement by Brooks (2013)
• Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust: A scale sampling seven domains of disgust elicitors by Haidt, McCauley, & Rozin (1994)
• Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety. by Dutton & Aron (1974)
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Csikszentmihalyi (2008)

Produced by Scarlet Moon Things
Music by Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy, and Richard Kimmings

Special thanks to Roi Ben-Yehuda, Massella Dukuly, Alyssa Greene, Andrea Crow, Kim Keating, and Joaquin Roca for research, input, and support!