Jena Malone: Set Your Sorrows Down (Polyamory Science with Amy Moors)

About this episode

Jena Malone discusses her album and the themes of identity and non-monogamy with psychologist Dr. Amy Moors.

Actor and musician Jena Malone joins Sing For Science to discuss “Set Your Sorrows Down” from her album Flowers for Men, a deeply personal record exploring identity, desire, transformation, and non-monogamy. The song’s central question — “Who am I to become now?” — opens a conversation about inherited relationship scripts and what it means to “take the society out of you.” Joining Jena is Chapman University psychologist and Kinsey Institute Research Fellow Dr. Amy Moors, whose work examines consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, stigma, jealousy, compersion, and the relationship structures that exist outside conventional monogamy. Together they explore why non-monogamy remains so stigmatized despite being far more common than many people assume, how art can make hidden experiences visible, and why studying love scientifically can help dismantle shame.

People in this episode

Guests: Jena Malone, Dr. Amy Moors

Topics covered

• non-monogamy
• polyamory
• identity
• desire
• transformation
• stigma
• love

Keywords

• Jena Malone
• polyamory
• non-monogamy
• relationship scripts
• stigma
• jealousy
• compersion
• scientific study of love

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chapman University, Kinsey Institute

Books & works: Flowers for Men, Set Your Sorrows Down

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