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Published · transcript-backedChris Blattman: evaluation
14 Mar 2018 Conversations with Tyler Chris Blattman on Development, Conflict, and Doing What's Interesting
“I tend to think we’re maybe a bit glib about saying that people are resilient because there’s a lot of pain or problems that don’t necessarily show up in our data but turn out to be really important.”
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- Chris Blattman
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- evaluation
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- 14 Mar 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Overall, your take, is it that children — you now see them as more resilient than you used to believe or less? Certainly more. If you’re a psychologist, you know that people are subjected to horrible things, and most people are incredible resilient. This is a big, stylized fact, but I never knew that before doing this. You certainly see it firsthand over and over again. So I updated since then. I think there’s a lot more nuance. I tend to think we’re maybe a bit glib about saying that people are resilient because there’s a lot of pain or problems that don’t necessarily show up in our data but turn out to be really important. The Stockholm syndrome — some people who are kidnapped or abducted start identifying with those who took them. How true is this in your experience?…
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