Gail Saltz || The Gifts of Disability
Over 50% of people will meet the criteria for a mental illness in their lifetime. On this episode of The Psychology Podcast, we want to do our part to encourage people to seek assistance, while celebr...
18 Apr 201754min
Diana Brecher || Boosting Student Resilience
Dr. Brecher is a clinical psychologist who uses cognitive behavioral strategies to buffer students against the pervasive depression and anxiety present in higher education. We talk about her science-i...
13 Apr 201732min
Dan Bowling III || How to be a Happy Lawyer
On today’s episode of The Psychology Podcast, our executive producer Taylor Kreiss conducts a guest interview about lawyer well-being. His guest, Dan Bowling III, is a Duke law professor and a positiv...
6 Apr 201754min
Roy Baumeister || Willpower, Violence, and Free Will
Roy Baumeister brings the methods of social psychology to bear on some of life’s deepest philosophical problems. In the second part of this two part series (see Part I), we cover the psychology of sel...
4 Apr 201721min
Roy Baumeister || Identity, the Self, and the Meaning of Life
Dr. Roy Baumeister is widely considered to be one of the most influential and cited psychologists of our time. He's also a wonderful conversationalist, full of interesting research to share with our l...
29 Mars 201737min
Tim Urban || Wait But Why? Unravelling Life's Biggest Mysteries
We are huge fans of Tim Urban’s Wait But Why blog, so it was a great joy to speak with him for today's show. In this episode of The Psychology Podcast, we experience Tim’s patented wry wit and deep ph...
22 Mars 201751min
Alain de Botton || Love, Sex, Religion and Happiness
Modern day philosopher Alain de Botton has become world renown for his ability to provide compelling real world answers to some of life’s biggest questions. For this episode of The Psychology Podcast,...
8 Mars 201739min
Cory Mascara || Mindfulness and Self-Authorship
Mindfulness has become a hot topic recently, gracing the covers of magazines like Time and Scientific American. Yet despite its rising popularity, many people remain confused about what exactly mindfu...
2 Mars 201759min
