Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWired for War: The Psychology of Leaders Who Choose Conflict
Season 3 Episode 35
War, Power, and the Psychology of Leaders: Dark Traits, Moral Disengagement, and AI-Driven Distance
Dr. Leslie Poston argues that war is a predictable…
2 hours ago
Fear, Politics, and Getting the Science Right: Terror Management Theory Revisited
Season 3 Episode 34
Terror Management Theory, Replication, and How Science Updates What We Think We Know
Dr. Leslie Poston discusses Terror Management Theory (TMT) as a f…
6 days, 19 hours ago
The Personality Test Industrial Complex: The MBTI Problem
Season 3 Episode 33
Why MBTI Took Over Corporate Culture Despite Weak Science, and What to Use Instead
Dr. Leslie Poston traces how the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator became…
1 week, 6 days ago
Why You're Stuck: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Season 3 Episode 32
Why Some People Bounce Back: Narrative Identity, Redemption Stories, and Getting Unstuck
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3 weeks ago
Specimen in a Petri Dish Part Two: Body Control as Political Power
Season 3 Episode 31
Body Policing as Authoritarian Power: From Fascist Propaganda to TikTok Pipelines
In Part One, we asked who gets to decide what a woman's body should …
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Specimen in a Petri Dish: The Psychology of Public Body Policing
Season 3 Episode 30
Why Society Feels Entitled to Comment on Women’s Bodies, and the Harm It Causes
Jenna Ortega sat down to talk about her career. Within a day, the inte…
1 month ago
Be Cringe, Be Free: The Psychology of Refusing to Perform
Season 3 Episode 29
Be Cringe, Be Free: Authenticity, Shame, and the Cost of Performing the Self
"Be cringe, be free" sounds like a joke about dancing badly in public. Dr…
1 month, 1 week ago
Gotcha Culture: Why Catching an AI Cheater Feels So Good
Season 3 Episode 28
The Psychology Behind AI Call-Outs and False Certainty
Dr. Leslie Poston examines why people react with such gleeful certainty when an AI detector fla…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Coded to Exhaustion: The Hidden Cost of Outsmarting the Algorithm
Season 3 Episode 27
Algospeak and the Cost of Speaking Under Algorithmic Suppression
When millions of creators have to say 'unalive' instead of suicide and use a grape em…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
What We Lose When Knowledge Has to Pay Rent
Season 3 Episode 26
Education’s Value Beyond Jobs: Critical Thinking, Humanities, and the Real Jobs Crisis
Host Dr. Leslie Poston argues that education’s value is not def…
2 months ago