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How Catching Covid Can Change Your Personality - Dr Diana Fleischman - #290

Modern Wisdom

03/04/21

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Dr Diana Fleischman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth and an author.

When we get sick with a virus like Covid-19, our bodies respond, but our behaviour and personality also change in a number of important ways and sometimes, it doesn't change back.

Expect to learn why avoiding new foods when ill makes evolutionary sense, whether needing the bathroom reduces your belief in free will, why extraversion is reduced when you're sick, what Diana thinks about Evolutionary Psychology's place in mindfulness and much more...

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Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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