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Behavioral Grooves Podcast · 2026-03-23 · 73 min · 11,977 words

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Welcome to Behavioral Groups, the podcast that explores our human condition. I am Kurt Nelson and I'm Tim Hulahan. We talk with researchers and other interesting people to unlock the mysteries of our behavior by using a behavioral science lens. Yes, I love how you say mysteries. There you go.

All right, so Tim, picture this. We're going back 10, 15,000 years ago. There's a group of us. We're sitting around a campfire, right? Okay.

We're we're we're we're telling stories about what happened during the day, what the hunt was, how we worked together, different things, what we encountered. You know, they were We're not debating spreadsheets and we're not setting up times for numbers of the spreadsheets and talking that. No, we're We're visualizing these things, discussing like what happened and like telling the story and like how you froze when we met up with the big, you know, saber-toothed tiger. And, you know, I had to come with the spear to save you.

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