You 2.0: In the Heat of the Moment

Hidden Brain

• Episode: You 2.0: In the Heat of the Moment
• Website: Hidden Brain
• Feed URL: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510308
• Duration: 00:51:50
• Published: 2021-08-09 22:00

In a fit of anger or in the grip of fear, many of us make decisions that we never would have anticipated. As part of our You 2.0 summer series, we look at situations that make us strangers to ourselves — and why it's so difficult to remember what these "hot states" feel like once the moment is over.

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