BrainCraft: I ran out of air (here's what I learned)

Teacher or professor: BrainCraft
Subject: Science
Content of the Lesson: Get the first 30 days of Curiosity Stream free at http://www.curiositystream.com/braincraft (and use the code "braincraft") 🧠 MY PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/BrainCraft And SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! 👉 http://ow.ly/rt5IE How to deal with uncertainty a little bit better. I wanted to explore a more personal style of storytelling. There are definitely fewer facts in here, but I hope the conversational approach to talking about studies is more entertaining and memorable for you. What is life if not a big experiment? My Instagram https://instagram.com/nessyhill | Twitter https://twitter.com/nessyhill REFERENCES 📚 The game with the two envelopes // How your intolerance for uncertainty affects reward-based decision making Luhmann, C. C., Ishida, K., & Hajcak, G. (2011). Intolerance of uncertainty and decisions about delayed, probabilistic rewards. Behavior Therapy, 42(3), 378-386. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005789411000219 Uncertainty is too stressful, perhaps a guaranteed electric shock is better: De Berker, A. O., Rutledge, R. B., Mathys, C., Marshall, L., Cross, G. F., Dolan, R. J., & Bestmann, S. (2016). Computations of uncertainty mediate acute stress responses in humans. Nature communications, 7, 10996. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10996 Intolerance of uncertainty is higher in people with anxiety and depression: Carleton, R. N., Mulvogue, M. K., Thibodeau, M. A., McCabe, R. E., Antony, M. M., & Asmundson, G. J. (2012). Increasingly certain about uncertainty: Intolerance of uncertainty across anxiety and depression. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 26(3), 468-479. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0887618512000230 FOOTAGE 🎬 Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator And footage was provided by Bigstock: http://bit.ly/bigstock-videofreetrial Two clips used under a creative commons license from Lake Hickory Scuba (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPUlhHxmZ6YeNYdcS5JUDsQ) and Eva Wong (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-R7O2GpymDZJMsE8OGgUQ). Space clips via the NASA image and video library: https://images.nasa.gov/


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