What Gets Lost When We Text Instead of Talk with Dr. Nick Epley
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What Gets Lost When We Text Instead of Talk with Dr. Nick Epley

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 12, 202644 min
  • Interview
  • Relationships & psychology

For most of human history, we only had one way to talk to one another: our voices. Today, we have more ways to communicate than ever before. We can text, call, send a video message, reach out over social media, et cetera. And we often choose whichever option seems easiest or least awkward. But research suggests that how we choose to communicate matters much more than we realize and can have a surprising impact on how well we understand one another and how connected we feel. In a live conversation recorded at the World Happiness Summit at...

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This is an iHeart Podcast, guaranteed human. Pushkin. Being the host of the Happiness Lab is pretty much the best job ever.

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I get to learn about the latest research in psychology, I get to chat with lots of smart people, and I get to share the science of wellbeing with all of you.

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But there is one big downside. Being a podcast host does involve spending lots of time at home, alone, inside a tiny soundproof closet. The kind of tiny closet that I'm recording

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