557: Jack Schafer | Flipping the Like Switch Part One
Jack Schafer (@jackschafer) is a retired FBI special agent, current assistant professor at Western Illinois University, and co-author of The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attrac...
7 Sep 202154min
556: How Can I Expunge the Family Sponge? | Feedback Friday
You live in an extended family situation and the only contribution one member makes to the collective is drinking, smoking pot, eating your food, stealing your old phones to pawn, and making messes th...
3 Sep 202149min
555: Jessica Tracy | Why Pride is the Deadly Sin of Success
Jessica Tracy (@ProfJessTracy) is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she also directs the Emotion & Self Lab. She is the author of Take Pride: Why the ...
2 Sep 202147min
554: Laurie Santos | Practical Lessons from The Happiness Lab
Laurie Santos (@lauriesantos) is a professor of psychology at Yale University, instructor of Coursera's The Science of Well-Being course (adapted from her popular Psychology and the Good Life course a...
31 Aug 20211h 8min
553: Is Friend's Fiancé Despotic or Simply Erotic? | Feedback Friday
Your best friend speaks glowingly about her fiancé, but she lives far away and your recent communications have only taken place by text and telephone. The thing is, this fiancé seems to be ever-presen...
27 Aug 202150min
552: Will Storr | Understanding Social Position and the Status Game
Will Storr (@wstorr) is an award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author. His latest book is The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It. What We Discuss with Will Storr: ...
26 Aug 20211h 10min
551: T-Pain | You Can't Auto-Tune Your Way to Happiness
T-Pain (@TPAIN) is a rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer known for popularizing auto-tune in modern music, and host of the Nappy Boy Radio podcast. What We Discuss with T-Pain: Why T-Pain wil...
24 Aug 20211h 18min
550: Conscience Contorted by Dad’s Abuse Unreported | Feedback Friday
Your father was physically violent toward you and your brother on at least two occasions that would have warranted police intervention, but your also-abusive mother begged you not to call them. Years ...
20 Aug 202155min
