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They asked me to contract certain muscles in my stomach, and I was like, what muscles?
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Steven Dubner, and you're listening to.
No stupid questions today on the show.
Is Janelle, is denial a helpful method of dealing with grief?
I think that every single one of us has been in denial at least once.
Not me.
Never denied anything.
Angela, we have a question here from a listener named Anna, which I think you will find very interesting and fairly provocative.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
So Anna writes that she's 23 years old, she's a biology research associate, and she wants to know, is there recorded evidence of denial having a comforting effect on the negative physiological responses to grief?
Hmm.
This sounds like not a question that people just ask out of pure academic curiosity.
This is true, she writes, literally.
There is a story behind my question.