Julian Rotter's Locus of Control: Tornado Deaths, Voters and Veterans
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Clinical psychologist Julian B. Rotter developed the locus of control concept in 1954, pushing b...
28 Okt 22min
Marshmallow Test Revisited: Broken Promises, Brain Scans and Overcontrol
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Walter Mischel's Stanford experiments in the 1960s and 1970s left four-year-olds alone with one ...
28 Okt 24min
Wayne Dyer: Detroit Orphan, Station Wagon Book Tours and Plagiarism Claims
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Wayne Dyer was born in Detroit in 1940. His father walked out, leaving his mother with three sma...
28 Okt 21min
Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy: Vienna's Zero-Suicide Year and Its Critics
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna in 1905 to a socially conscious Jewish family. As a teenager he...
28 Okt 22min
Public Speaking's History: Demosthenes' Pebbles to Kishida Toshiko's Boxes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Glossophobia, the fear of public speaking, is traced in this episode to an evolutionary theory: ...
28 Okt 23min
Tim Ferriss Beyond the 4-Hour Workweek: From Uber Adviser to Psychedelics
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tim Ferriss was born in 1977 and grew up in East Hampton, New York, a frequently sick child. At ...
28 Okt 20min
Eckhart Tolle After the Bench: Oprah's Double Pick and Kendrick Lamar
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Eckhart Tolle was born Ulrich Leonhard Tolle in 1948 in Lünen, in the Ruhr region under British ...
28 Okt 23min
Pygmalion Effect: From Clever Hans to Israeli Boot Camp Expectations
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Pygmalion effect, named for the Greek sculptor whose statue came to life, holds that high ex...
28 Okt 24min
