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 Juli 201551min
053 - Adaptive Learning - Ulrik Christensen
Can new computer programs rid us of the cognitive errors that lead to learned helplessness in the classroom? In this episode Ulrik Christensen, senior fellow of digital learning at McGraw-Hill Educati...
2 Juli 201548min
052 - Learned Helplessness
Stuck in a bad situation, even when the prison doors are left wide open, we sometimes refuse to attempt escape. Why is that? In this episode learn all about the strange phenomenon of learned helplessn...
23 Juni 201545min
051 - Work - Laszlo Bock
Work often sucks, but it doesn't have to. In this episode we interview Lazlo Bock, head of People Operations at Google, who helped his company make work suck less, way less, by introducing new policie...
5 Juni 20151h 10min
050 - Happy Money - Elizabeth Dunn (rebroadcast)
It’s peculiar, your inability to predict what will make you happy, and that inability leads you to do stupid things with your money. Once you get a decent job that allows you to buy new shoes on a whi...
22 Maj 201545min
049 - Rejection - Jia Jiang
What if you could give yourself a superpower? That's what Jia Jiang wondered when he began a quest to remove the fear of rejection from his brain and become the risk-taking, adventurous person he alwa...
8 Maj 201554min
048 - Contact
Can you change a person's mind on a divisive social issue? The latest science says...yes. But it will require two things: contact and disclosure. In this episode you'll travel to Mississippi to see ho...
25 Apr 20151h 1min
