Pamela Rackow
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Interviewed as a guest
Episode 48
Her randomised study on whether taking up exercise with a new sports companion increases how much people exercise, 83 in the intervention group and 72 in the control group, an eight-week buddy task, and the finding that emotional social support (encouragement) was the active ingredient while instrumental support worked through self-efficacy. Mel relates it to her own go-to exercise buddy, and Scott closes by saying parkrun turns strangers into friends.