In this Academic Minute podcast clip, graduate student Shadrzad Goudarzi discusses a recent multi-part psychological study which examines Americans responses to and opinions of economic inequality. Goudarzi and collaborators found that for participants who endorsed "system-justifying ideology" had a "less negative" emotional response to a video of a houseless person describing their struggles.

Shahrzad Goudarzi, New York University – Economic Inequality

Cantron, a writer, discusses psychological studies aimed at figuring out how folks fall in love and/or build connections and trust with others. She discusses her personal experiment with one of the studies where two strangers ask each other 36 questions that require both participants to reveal personal information and be vulnerable to each other in order to build a connection with each other.

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