Is “travel psychology” a real thing? How have our definitions of where we’re from changed over history? What do highways, our passports, and the lines and lounges in an airport reveal about travel and movement in the modern world? And what happens when we shift from viewing humans as fixed in place to constantly in motion?

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Erratic
By Tim Cresswell
 
Sitting there for all the world
as if you owned the place.
An error. Bluestone among 
chalk. Wanderer. Heretic. 
Stowaway, suspended as the world 
warmed leaving you upended – 
culture-shocked and supersized. 
Your crystals milky,
opaque, glittering.
Brimming with another kind of 
winter. Fire and freeze. Ten 
thousand years of exile – 
now part of the scenery.

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Episode 2 featured Geographer Tim Cresswell. The episode was produced, edited, and mixed by Stephanie Tam. Our theme music was composed by Nina Humphreys.

Thank you to the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy at Princeton University for sponsoring Behavioral Scientist Reads and helping to make the podcast possible.

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Published by Behavioral Scientist magazine.