{"id":62,"date":"2021-10-17T21:32:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2021-10-19T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T01:42:09","slug":"samarth-srivastava","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/archived-interviews\/samarth-srivastava\/","title":{"rendered":"Samarth Srivastava"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cLooking back to my school, I would say it was a pretty horrible school experience. A lot of it required a lot of unlearning. We were never ever taught the basics of the scientific method. We just started off with science and were like \u201chere\u2019s atoms!\u201d. That kind of philosophical basis and the way you think about science was a huge thing I had to struggle with throughout my second year when I started taking psychology.<\/p>\n

The community around me growing up did not know what psychology was. I\u2019d say the best of it was when people knew who Freud was. A huge part of it was \u201cpsychology is crazy people\u201d or \u201ceveryone knows what is, you don\u2019t need to study that\u201d. I didn\u2019t actively hold those beliefs but that is something that was implicitly in my head keeping me away from psychology even though I was interested in it. Luckily, I had great professors for 101 and 102 so it ended up being a nice experience. For 102 I had Simon Lolliot, I spent so much time after classes just sitting and talking to him.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a rollercoaster ride honestly. Being introduced to the problem with psychology itself, the whole WEIRD problem [with Ara Norenzayan]. That, put together with my environmental studies, pushed me to the direction where I am now. I’m looking at the cultural and social ways we relate to the environment. I constantly am able to question the field I\u2019m in itself because of these people that I worked with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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