In a new episode of the popular cable TV show And Just Like That, it’s proposed that “Men are dumb with feelings.” Is that true?

This podcast episode considers what we know about emotion and gender. What does the gender imbalance in this podcast’s guests suggest about the relationship between emotion and gender? Should I adjust the design to compensate, and restore gender balance? This episode explores the available research on the subject, focusing on some of the studies cited in a powerful chapter by Leslie R. Brody, Judith A. Hall, and Lynissa R. Stokes, in the 2018 fourth edition of The Handbook of Emotions, edited by Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michael Lewis, and Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones.

Emotionally, having arrived feels like the proper ending to a story. Our arrival seems like a culmination of all our efforts so that all our problems are solved.

Of course, that’s not how life really works. Often, we find that the place we’ve arrived at isn’t what we expected it to be. It begins to feel more difficult to remain in that place, as new needs arise, and new problems have to be solved. Having arrived doesn’t preclude further journeys ahead. This episode features the insights of Regina Lark, Adam Baruh, and Savannah Hauk.

The pleasure that people find in work doesn’t follow any kind of universal formula. There’s no recipe for arbejdsglaede that’s going to work for everyone, because different people have different kinds of work that requires different skills and different forms of dedication. Guests in this episode include Brandy Agerback, Eleni Poulos, John Pabon, and Ranelle Golden

Flow isn’t static. Change is an essential aspect of what flow is. Water that just sits there doesn’t flow. It’s stagnant, and flow is about creativity, not stagnation. Flow simultaneously allows us to dive into creative process and to connect the ideas within our work to tangible patterns built through our physical senses.

We give trust because we trust in trust. When people choose to trust each other, people actually tend to be more trustworthy as a result. On the other hand, the opposite is also true. Once people begin feel distrust in each other, they become more distant and wary of each other, making untrustworthy behavior more likely.

Grieving for a dying friend or family member is difficult enough. How can we grieve for a dying planet? This planet explores the boundaries of the scale of human emotion with the planet-sized climate grief, featuring the voices of Betti Rooted Lionheart, Shannon Haskins, Eleni Populous, Ian Williams, John Pabon, and Todd Saddler.

This episode explores the emotion of pride in the context of LGBTQ and disabled identities, with stories from authors Lee Wind, Savannah Hauk, and Karol Ruth Silverstein, along with a passage from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

there are some emotions that have yet to be assigned particular words to enable us to communicate about them. We can feel emotions without having a name for them. We feel these things even as we struggle for ways to communicate them to others. These are emotions on the cusp of being known, aspects of our individual experiences even though they don’t yet have a socially-recognized label.

This space of emerging emotion was revealed to me recently by my daughter in reaction to an episode of the breakthrough television show The Last Of Us, a well-received series that’s was based on a groundbreaking video game. The Last Of Us was among the first video games to integrate game play within a compelling cinematic storyline. 

The Last Of Us is basically a zombie story, but it wasn’t the specific narrative that captured my daughter’s attention so much as the artistry with which it was executed. She described her emotional reaction to the craft of the storytelling as a combination of joy and fury.

Surrender is the opposite of strategy. Strategy is thoroughly infused with the presumption of control. Surrender abandons strategic plans for controlling the future and allows for something else to be in charge. In this episode, Josie Gibson, Sonja Kresojevic, Jonathan Schwarz, Daniel Gomez Seidel, and Regina Lark share stories of surrender

What is love, if people can feel love for so many different things in so many different ways? How are all of these different kinds of love still love?

In this episode, we hear stories of love from Harker Jones, Ranelle Golden, Rebecca Rose Vassy, Nancy Perpall, Betti Rooted Lionheart, Kristen Donnelly, and Robin Hafitz.