How we react when our sense of meaning is threatened, with Steven Heine
I talk with Steven Heine about how we react to our sense of meaning being threatened. What happens when our mental frameworks of how the world works don’t hold up and things seem chaotic? What happens...
10 Okt 202259min
Is the whole world growing more polarized?, with Andrew O'Donohue
I talk with Andrew O'Donohue, co-author of "Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization." Andrew has studied how societal conflicts play out in many countries, and the harm tho...
1 Okt 202253min
Are eye movement patterns associated with personality traits?, with Sabrina Hoppe
A talk with Sabrina Hoppe about a 2018 study that showed how eye movements are correlated with personality. That paper was named 'Eye movements during everyday behavior predict personality traits.' We...
21 Sep 202242min
Can body language actually be used to detect deception?, with Tim Levine
A talk with communication researcher Tim Levine about nonverbal behavior and deception detection. Tim's stance is that there's no evidence that nonverbal behavior is useful for detecting deception. He...
30 Aug 20221h 17min
Reading "drug-seeking" patient behavior, with Dr. Casey Grover
A talk with Dr. Casey Grover, addiction specialist and host of the podcast Addiction in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care, about how doctors attempt to determine if a patient is trying to get a drug p...
17 Aug 202249min
Predicting psychosis and schizophrenia by what words people use, with Neguine Rezaii
This is a reshare of a 2020 talk with psychology researcher Neguine Rezaii. She and her research team used machine learning to find language patterns used by teenagers who were at risk of schizophreni...
9 Aug 202247min
Reading and predicting jury behavior, with Christina Marinakis
A 2018 talk with jury specialist Christina Marinakis about how she makes use of human psychology and human behavior in her jury consultancy work. Topics discussed: jury selection procedures; what jury...
21 Juli 20221h 17min
How to spot fake online reviews, with Olu Popoola
A 2019 talk I had with forensic linguistic researcher Olu Popoola where we discuss indicators that online reviews are fake or genuine. We talk about his work analyzing indicators of deception, and tal...
6 Juli 202258min
