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Gerald Zhang-Schmidt
Benign Masochism, Meat, Microbes, and the Love of Chilli: In Talk with Paul Rozin
20 minutes Posted Mar 10, 2020 at 5:25 pm.
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Paul Rozin is the psychologist of chile pepper lovers - there's no getting around his hypothesis of why we humans, uniquely among animals, develop a craving for the spiciness of hot chilli pepper: "benign masochism"!