The Science Behind Our Niche Interests | Compilation
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Published 2021-03-01
Hosted by: Hank Green
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Sources:
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All Comments (21)
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Villains are confident, well dressed, and stand up for a cause they believe in
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As a kid a friend teased me a lot about my anime crush, because he "wasn't real." But she crushed hard on a famous singer. I argued both were equally one-sided, unrealistic, and perfectly normal. Now 20 years later I gotta call her and tell her I was right. Lol!
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When Hank talked about parasocial relationships I could only think of the fact that I feel like we’re friends
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Hank is my best friend that doesn't know it
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The IKEA effect: *Looks at computer she built all by herself under the guise she would save money but totally overspent on mismatched parts with all the love of a mother looking at her child. *
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They actually named it the Ikea Effect? I love it haha
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Depression: let me just take those away for you.
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I feel like with that first part it's worth noting that sometimes people identify with villains because they're part of marginalized groups that are scapegoated and more frequently depicted as villains and that doesn't have anything to do with them looking at a bad trait and painting it as good, but with the mainstream looking at more or less neutral traits and painting them as bad. Would love to see a video on that.
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Ah yes the Ikea effect - except with artists, where most people can only see the flaws in anything they make, no matter how much time they spend on it lmao
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I've been obsessed with plagues since I was a little kid. Living through one (and catching it) has not diminished my fascination.
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the link between effort justification and burnout would be interesting. Basically when you realize the effort wasn't really worth it
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Thanks. I was feeling weird about my grief over Grant Imahara's passing. It's a relief it is a normal thing.
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So my body pillow with an anime character (Hatake Kakashi) is completely normal? Awesome. I'll tell Kakashi. He'll be really happy.
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I just finished re-finishing my bathroom. Now I question my satisfaction.
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Here's a hypothesis about why benign masochism might be beneficial to us: to learn things we have to try and fail a lot, which might cause a negative feeling. But ultimately the negative feeling ends up in something positive long-term, since we maybe learned something from it. I could see a species that goes for that (knowing that the consequences will not be too bad) lasting longer than one that avoids all negative feelings.
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I had a surprising amount of parasocial grief when Alan Rickman died. It does feel silly at first, but it's part of what makes us human.
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Whoa, I'd never heard parasocial relationships talked about like that. Makes me feel so much better about the state of the world haha!! Like humans are SO social we can't help it lmao
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I love how this video doesn't have a music soundtrack. Thank you!!!
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sees thumbnail ah yes, I do have a niche interest in a room full of vampires
