The Ledger

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Headlee: Email Communication Reduces Cooperation And Escalates Conflict
“I mean, for example, email in email, you're less likely to negotiate. You're less likely to cooperate. You're more likely to escalate conflict.”
Celeste Headlee Feb 5, 2019 ▶ 41:10 #51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
Assertion Supported
Headlee: fMRI Scans Show Defensiveness Triggers Brain's Physical Attack Response
“They've done fMRI scans in which they discovered that when you start to feel defensive, that, that word is quite literally descriptive. In other words, you start to feel challenged. You start to feel defensive and your brain begins actually instigating the sam…”
Celeste Headlee Feb 5, 2019 ▶ 43:45 #51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
Assertion Supported
Headlee: Conversation Has Negative Emotional Impacts Only in Two Specific Scenarios
“They, they've studied the benefits, especially the neurological benefits and emotional benefits of conversation, and in every single circumstance, conversation is good for you. It doesn't matter if it's a simple chat with somebody, with your Uber driver. It do…”
Celeste Headlee Feb 5, 2019 ▶ 44:51 #51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
Assertion Supported
Hearing Opposing Views Spoken Humanizes Opponents More Than Reading Them
“Just late last year, Nicholas Epley in Chicago and his colleagues released this study in which they were looking at people and how they absorb opinions they don't agree with, and they found out that when you read an opinion you don't agree with in any format…”
Celeste Headlee Feb 5, 2019 ▶ 58:35 #51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
Assertion Partly supported
Headlee: Talking About Yourself Triggers The Brain's Pleasure Centers
“In, in 2014, Harvard released this study in which they discovered that talking about yourself activates the same pleasure center in the brain as sex and heroin.”
Celeste Headlee Feb 5, 2019 ▶ 1:08:51 #51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
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Headlee: Coach David Candow shaped NPR's signature on-air sound
“He was from Newfoundland, and he was so instrumental in the crafting of the NPR sound. He trained and mentored so many of NPR's anchors and hosts that we used to call him the host whisperer.”
Celeste Headlee Feb 5, 2019 ▶ 20:45 #51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
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