Schauer Thoughts

Latest Episodes:

So What is Cringe Anyway?? Aug 13, 2025

Show notes

Today we’re talking a leisurely stroll through the neuroscience of cringe! Behold the surprising sadness that awaits just beyond our cranial walls. Clear your calendar and your conscience and step into this week’s communal shower. Feel free to leave your dignity at the door.

Resources:

That’s Cringe: The Neuroscience Behind Embarrassment

https://greymattersjournal.org/thats-cringe-the-neuroscience-behind-embarassment/

How Emotions Are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett

Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions - Batja Mesquita

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How to Build Trust [the Final Part!] Aug 06, 2025

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Here it is folks, the third and final installment on our mini-series about building trust! Thank you all so much for your patience, for listening, for learning, that’s the attitude to have when entering the communal thought Schauer! We’re sharing cognitive load and helping each other co-regulate [somewhat parasocial conclusion redacted for posterity purposes] so thank you. Can’t wait to talk to you all next week about something tangentially related. Make sure to like and subscribe on Youtube, as well as rate 5 stars on Spotify or Apple Podcasts!

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Resources:

Four Colors of Lies

http://changingminds.org/explanations/behaviors/lying/four_lies.htm

An Illustrated Guide to the 4 Types of Liars

https://www.nirandfar.com/types-of-liars/

Visual Perception and Corollary Discharge

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2807735/#:~:text=Identifying%20a%20corollary%20discharge%20in,Holst%20and%20Mittelstaedt%2C%201950).

Propensity to trust and risk aversion: Differential roles in the trust process

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656623000119

Agreeableness

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/agreeableness

12 Proven Trust-Building Exercises to Repair Relationships of All Types

https://riveroakspsychology.com/12-proven-trust-building-exercises-to-repair-relationships-of-all-types/

5 Creative Bullet Journal Mood Tracker Ideas [and Your How To Guide]

https://www.yopandtom.com/blogs/news/5-creative-bullet-journal-mood-tracker-ideas-and-your-how-to-guide?srsltid=AfmBOoq1RVxbyYU_8b-31IJzxvrtezmy64Xyp8zdmgBUp3lJnyoyDhto

Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life - Sissela Bok

The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli

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Discussing Marriage and Divorce with Allison Raskin! Jul 30, 2025

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This week on Schauer Thoughts we’re discussing the institution of marriage, why I love divorce, and what not to do while pregnant with NYT Best Selling Author, relationship coach, and co-host of the new podcast Starter Marriage, Allison Raskin! Please give my lovely first guest a warm, communal Schauer welcome and make sure to check out her books and socials linked below!

Additional Links

Allison Raskin Website

https://www.allisonraskin.com

Website contains links to all her books!

Starter Marriage - Apple Podcasts

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/starter-marriage/id1815319639

Starter Marriage - Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/show/1wtpq76qhV5ElAVaoI9zb3?si=66f9f4e1332e45d6

Emotional Support Lady Substack

https://emotionalsupportlady.substack.com

Sarah Schauer Substack

https://sarahschauer.substack.com

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How To Start to Build Trust Pt. 2 Jul 23, 2025

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Another wonderful week in the communal Schauer, this time we’re discussing how to develop trust with others! Please keep in mind that this is the structure for trust (the frame) and that your interpretation and expression of trust (the art) are complimentary, not negating one another. I will be doing a part three to cover some accessibility nuances since we did discuss “work value.” Hopefully you finish this episode feeling refreshed and able to build trust in your own life.

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Resources

How to Get Into Research as a Hobby

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahschauer/p/how-to-start-to-researching-as-a?r=3yb1cq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Neural Correlates of Trust

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0710103104

Revisiting the Morphology and Classification of the Paracingulate Gyrus with Commentaries on Ambiguous Cases

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8301833/

Affective Regulation

https://www.drmitchkeil.com/glossary/affect-regulation/#:~:text=Affect%20Regulation%20refers%20to%20the,for%20addressing%20trauma%20and%20distress.

Trust Me: Social Games are Better Than Social Icebreakers in Building Trust

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309024508_Trust_Me_Social_Games_are_Better_than_Social_Icebreakers_at_Building_Trust

Definition of Contingent Trust

https://lsd.law/define/contingent-trust

Create Your Own Personal Constitution: A Blueprint for Living Your Best Life

https://medium.com/storyangles/create-your-personal-constitution-a-blueprint-for-living-your-best-life-fb6fc2da39fe#

Why Personal Boundaries Are Important and How to Develop Them

https://fearlessliving.org/why-personal-boundaries-are-important-and-how-to-develop-them/

Levels of Measurement

https://byjus.com/maths/scales-of-measurement/

Faith, Truth, and Forgiveness: How Your Brain Processes Abstract Thought:

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/october/abstract-thought.html

On the Art and Craft of Doing Science - Kenneth Catania

Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods - Shawn Wilson

Your Brain on Art - Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross

Chapter 5: Amplifying Learning - for my breakdown of saliency & it’s importance when learning

Thank you for checking the resources, it means a lot to me. Have a great week.

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How To Start to Build Self-Trust Jul 16, 2025

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Howdy y’all! This week we’re starting to build some self-trust and next week we’ll be establishing trust with others. Like always, we will be taking the long way around the subject, going full third person, but that is necessary to survey the land (self) we are working on. Hopefully a little outdoor Schauer will loosen up the soil and make your excavating a bit easier.

Resources:

Humanities Blast Courses

https://krieger.jhu.edu/humanities-institute/programs/humanities-blast-courses/

Self-Trust and How to Build It

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stronger-the-broken-places/201909/self-trust-and-how-build-it

How to Find Free or Affordable Therapy

https://therapist.com/resources/free-affordable-therapy/

Includes: therapy w/ or w/o insurance, employee assistance programs, student wellness programs, organizations for marginalized groups & more

Life In Three Dimensions - Shigehiro Oishi, PhD

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Let’s Keep Decentering Gender! Pt. 2 Jul 09, 2025

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I told y’all that we were keeping it moving! This week we’re going over how the brain indexes abstract thought, how emotions are expressed across cultures, and the self-fulfilling prophecy of gender. Please excuse the tangents this week, Rite Aid closed and I am without Vyvanse. That being said, very happy to have you in this week’s communal Schauer!

Resources:

Meet the neuroscientist shattering the myth of the gendered brain

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/24/meet-the-neuroscientist-shattering-the-myth-of-the-gendered-brain-gina-rippon

Sex versus gender associations with brain structure

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096758682400105X

Two Minds: The Cognitive Differences Between Men and Women

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different/

Faith, Truth and Forgiveness: How Your Brain Processes Abstract Thought

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/october/abstract-thought.html

If there are any resources missing please let me know and I will update this list ASAP.

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Let’s Decenter That Gender! Pt. 1 Jul 02, 2025

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Well you heard it here folks, we’re decentering gender this week in the communal shower. What does it mean to decenter? What is gender? Are pronouns “real?” Sit back, relax, and enjoy the musings of a single, 30 year old, childless lesbian. Resources Is Gender Fluid? - Sally Hines What is gender, anyway: a review of the options for operationalizing gender https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19419899.2020.1729844#d1e351 Concrete vs abstract language https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/student-success/tutoring/handouts-writing/editing-and-mechanics/Concrete-and-Specific-Language.pdf#:~:text=But%20first%2C%20it's%20important%20to%20understand%20what,refer%20to%20intangible%20qualities%2C%20ideas%2C%20and%20concepts. Pronouns - What Are They? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pronoun If there are any resources I’m missing please let me know and I will update this list ASAP.

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Schauering Y’all With Pride! Jun 25, 2025

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Happy Pride my beautiful LGBTQIA! Please join me for this very special episode of Q & A & LGBTI (that’s clever, you should give me that.) I hope you enjoy this episode, I hope you enjoyed the communal gay Schauer, and I hope you dance. Resources: BDS - Say No to Pinkwashing https://www.bdsmovement.net/pinkwashing Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique https://pendlehill.org/product/queer-palestine-and-the-empire-of-critique/ Bi - Julia Shaw Ace - Angela Chen Refusing Compulsory Sexuality - Sherronda J. Brown Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us - Ivy Ross & Susan Magsamen

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Why You Should Hate ICE Jun 18, 2025

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This episode of Schauer Thoughts is going to get frigid, we’re discussing ICE and their inhumane targeting of immigrants across the US. Please make sure to check out all linked resources, time is of the essence and your help is vitally needed. Thank you so much for listening.

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Resources

What is ICE and what does it do?

https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-ice-and-what-does-it-do/

- Please read this with a *HUGE* grain of salt, the language is phrased in a very divisive way.

In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5413364/concerns-over-conditions-in-u-s-immigration-detention-were-hearing-the-word-starving

Books

Unbuild Walls - Silky Shah

-Free for Ebook download

- https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unbuild-walls

Minor Feelings - Cathy Park Hong

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

Aloha Betrayed - Noenoe K. Silva

Conditional Citizens - Laila Lalami

Our Migrant Souls - Hector Tobar

The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H

Survival Takes a Wild Imagination - Fariha Roisin

Thinning Blood - Leah Myers

Community Resources

Anonymous Grocery & Needs Request

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxu-YLp5fv/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

How You Can Help Immigrants Now

https://www.instagram.com/p/DK2lfsmPqXK/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==

“We Did it Legally”

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxngmIT6CQ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

A guide to help when someone is being detained by ICE

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKvOGG4SrMH/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Nationwide Bail Funds and Immigration Support by State

https://www.instagram.com/p/DK4WXaGRvEh/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Supporting undocumented families that lost their jobs or can not work due to ICE RAIDS

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxyxrayUmG/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

End Trans Detention

https://www.instagram.com/p/DH12nv1J45U/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

If any resources are missing, please let me know ASAP so I can update this list.

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Discussing Some Neuromyths Jun 11, 2025

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This week we’ll be explaining some common brain myths that keep popping up in movies and online! However, I will still be addressing you all as “left and right brainers” because a little *lighthearted* fun never hurt anyone (it absolutely has but in this context I think we’re fine.) Please enjoy these Schauer Thoughts and let me know your in the comments or DMs.

Resources:

Bend App

Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross

Brain Myths Are Age Old

https://www.edubloxtutor.com/brain-myths/#:~:text=Brain%20myths%20or%20neuromyths%20are,fluid%20housed%20the%20human%20soul.

Brain Development and Mastery of Language in the Early Childhood Years

https://www.idra.org/resource-center/brain-development-and-mastery-of-language-in-the-early-childhood-years/

If there are any resources missing please let me know!

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