Squeezing two people into an MRI machine, and deciding between what’s reasonable and what’s rational

Getting into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine can be a tight fit for just one person. Now, researchers interested in studying face-to-face interactions are attempting to squeeze a whole other person into the same tube, while taking functional MRI (fMRI) measurements. Staff news writer Kelly Servick joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the kinds of questions simultaneous fMRIs might answer. 

Also this week, Sarah talks with Igor Grossman, the director of the Wisdom and Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo, about his group’s Science Advances paper on public perceptions of the difference between something being rational and something being reasonable.

This week’s episode was edited by Podigy.

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About the Science Podcast

[Image: Amanda/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

Authors: Kelly Servick, Sarah Crespi

Transcript link:  https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/SciencePodcast_200110.pdf

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