Episode 18: What is Travel Psychology?
Listen now (12 mins) | Your introduction to the science of why we travel.
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Essays, guides, and tools from a social and cultural psychologist — on travel, connection, and l'art de vivre.
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This month's digest from The Journal of Travel Psychology — on fear, re-entry, heartbreak, and the full arc of a trip.
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a roundup of what I've been up to outside of this newsletter
Episode 16: The Low Nobody Talks About
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Episode 15: Why Leaving a Place Can Break Your Heart
Listen now (14 mins) | Place attachment, the psychology of place loss, and why grieving a place you've left is real, measurable grief — even when nothing has changed but you.
Who are you when you're away?
on the version of yourself that only exists in certain places—and what psychology says about why
Episode 14: The Science of Why Some Places Feel Like Home
Listen now (14 mins) | Travel psychology, place identity, epigenetics, and ancestral connection — why certain places feel like home before you've ever stood in them.
What I learned from sending one postcard a week
on birthdays, the post office, and what happened when I stopped sending texts