Episode 3: Turning Information Into Pain

Reversing course from Episode 2, our pair of Gen-Xers discuss how information can be turned into pain.

How do we protect ourselves from bad information?

The study that Ari referenced in this episode: Smith DM, Loewenstein G, Jankovic A, Ubel PA. Happily hopeless: adaptation to a permanent, but not to a temporary, disability. Health Psychol. 2009 Nov;28(6):787-91. doi: 10.1037/a0016624. PMID: 19916648; PMCID: PMC2796797.