Advice For Your Dinner Party Stories: Keep It Familiar

By Shankar Vedantam

Published May 17, 2017 at 5:02 AM EDT

Shankar Vedantam

Shankar Vedantam is the host and creator of Hidden Brain. The Hidden Brain podcast receives more than three million downloads per week. The Hidden Brain radio show is distributed by NPR and featured on nearly 400 public radio stations around the United States.

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