Episode Details

Sylvain Charlebois⁠⁠ – host of ⁠⁠The Food Professor podcast⁠⁠ – explains why currently there's a spike in chocolate theft and a run on cottage cheese. Neuroscientist and writer Tom Bellamy goes over the neuroscience of limerence and how to break the cycle of romantic obsession. Dr. Emily Cook and Kyle Napierkowski from the Center for Organizational Dreaming discuss how unemployment changes the you people dream. On Therapy Thursdays on a Wednesday, Gary Direnfeld and David attack the problem of dealing with our own BS, and tackle the topics of self-sabotage and comparing yourself to others. Psychology and neuroscience professor David Geary reveals how parental math anxiety is linked to lower math skills in young children. Psychology researcher Marius Stavang shares the psychology of the 'friend zone' and how teenage boys experience it much more than girls. Marketing professor Mehak Bharti answers why people say they care about ethical shopping but often buy differently.

Segments:

• (00:00) Introduction
• (01:24) Sylvain Charlebois
• (10:00) Tom Bellamy
• (20:00) Dr. Emily Cook & Kyle Napierkowski
• (30:00) Gary Direnfeld pt. 1
• (39:50) Gary Direnfeld pt. 2
• (49:50) David Geary
• (59:50) Marius Stavang
• (1:09:50) Mehak Bharti
• (1:19:18) Sign-off
  

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