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Behavioral Grooves Podcast · 2025-12-22 · 24 min · 3,830 words

Why We Gather: The Psychology of Holiday Rituals

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Welcome to Behavioral Grooves, the show where we talk about behavioral science in a very fun way that talks about things that matter to you, like how do you gather for holidays and what are the rituals that you have. So join me, Kurt Nelson, along with my co-host Tim Wuhan, as we do a very special grooving session for you on gatherings. and rituals. I'm glad you didn't go to uh how to survive uh you know Thanksgiving or how to not kill Uncle Joe at Christmas. You know, Christmas We already did that one, didn't we?

Didn't we do that one? We've done that, but yeah. It never gets old because crazy Uncle Joe every year. So and it's always uncles. It's it's never it's never crazy aunts.

It's always a crazy uncles, isn't it? Yeah. Okay, so uh how do you want to frame this, uh, this session? So we are we are entering into holiday season for you know Thanksgiving, Friends giving for those who do that, right? Christmas, Hanukkah, end of year celebrations.

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