Episode 51: Sanctuary Trauma – When Support Isn’t Supportive
In this episode, Steve leads the charge to discuss the concept of Sanctuary Trauma “occurs when an individual who suffered a severe stressor next encounters what was expected to be a supportive and...
Episode 50: Pain w/Zoe Bee – How Does Politics Paint our Perspective on Pain?
In this episode, we have the amazing Zoe Bee on to discuss the idea of Pain, focusing on how political stances view and address it. We concisely define pain as: Physical and mental suffering.
In this episode, Steve leads the charge on the concept of Ghosting. Steve did the academic research, Phil did the field research, we could say. They talk about who is likely to ghost, who is likely...
Episode 48: Ressentiment – Is it Better to be Weak and Poor?
Steve takes the charge on dipping into Nietzsche’s concept of Ressentiment, defined here as, "a sense of hostility directed toward an object that is identified as the source of one's frustration....
Episode 47: Need for Cognition – Is Thinking a Pleasure or a Pain?
In this episode, Phil explains what Need for Cognition is, most easily defined as a scale ranging from enjoying thinking and finding it as something internally motivated, down to something that is a...
Episode 46: Paradoxical Outcomes – Causing the Exact Thing You Didn’t Want
In this episode, Phil introduces a homebrewed concept that he defines as "Any action taken to stop a particular outcome results in causing that outcome."
