Diana Orghian is a social psychologist interested in how people perceive and extract meaning from the surrounding social world. She is a postdoctoral associate in the Collective Learning group (at Media Lab, MIT) working on Person Perception, Behavioral Economics, and Data Visualization. In this episode we discuss growing up in a foreign country, the optimism-mystique connection and making data digestible.

For more information please visit:

https://www.media.mit.edu/people/dorghian/overview/
https://sites.google.com/site/diorghian/

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Music Credits:

“Over Under”, “Allada”
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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