061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft
You have the power to wield neuroplasticity to your advantage.Just as you can change your body at the atomic level by lifting weights, you can willfully alter your brain by...thinking in a certain way...
22 Okt 20151h 22min
060 - Reframing - Robert R. Morris
Reframing is one of those psychological tools that just plain works. It’s practical, simple, and with practice and repetition it often leads to real change in people with a variety of thinking problem...
7 Okt 20151h 10min
059 - The Illusion Of Control - Michael And Sarah Bennett
In the show, you'll hear Michael elaborate on why that is. In this episode, our guests are Harvard-trained psychiatrist Michael I. Bennett and his comedy writer daughter Sarah Bennett whose new book, ...
23 Sep 20151h 5min
058 - Technology - Clive Thompson (Rebroadcast)
Is all this new technology improving our thinking or dampening it? Are all these new communication tools turning us into navel-gazing human/brand hybrids, or are we developing a new set of senses that...
10 Sep 20151h 10min
057 - PTSD - Robert D. Laird
10 years after Katrina the residents of New Orleans and portions of Mississippi are still experiencing PTSD. In this episode we explore what causes this disorder, why it happens, what triggers the sym...
27 Aug 20151h 7min
056 - Magicians And Scams - Brian Brushwood
Before we had names for them or a science to study them, the people who could claim the most expertise on biases, fallacies, heuristics and all the other quirks of human reasoning and perception were ...
12 Aug 20151h 11min
055 - WEIRD People - Steven J. Heine
Is psychology too WEIRD? That's what this episode's guest, psychologist Steven J. Heine suggested when he and his colleagues published a paper suggesting that psychology wasn't the study of the human ...
1 Aug 201548min
054 - The Self - Bruce Hood (rebroadcast)
Is the person you believe to be the protagonist of your life story real or a fictional character? In other words, is your very self real or is it an illusion? According to psychologist Bruce Hood, the...
16 Jul 201551min
