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Today you'll learn why you act out when your freedom is taken away,

the best cities for biking in the US, and how paying

with a credit card changes the way you spend your money.

We also got some help from a special guest to answer a listener question.

Nick wanted to know how people calculate the probability of someone dying from something like a car or a plane.

We'll give you a look behind the numbers and more in our conversation with Penn Colash, manager of statistics with the National Safety Council.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Actually, do you ever have the instinct to do the opposite of what you're told to do?

Yes, a lot, yeah.

I'm extremely, extremely guilty of this.

I'm, I can get really stubborn. Yeah. I'm glad we've never butted heads. Well today we

wrote about a psychological quirk that I have not seen super widely discussed. It's a name for when humans

acts out, sometimes irrationally, when they think their freedom is under threat.

We do it to reestablish our sense that we're free and psychologists call this reactants.

I am so glad there's a term for this.

If someone feels like you're bossing them around, then it'll trigger reactants and they're

not likely to see your perspective.

In fact, people often do the opposite of what a bossy person says to do.

In one study, for example, a judge warned a mock jury to disregard certain evidence that was inadmissible.

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