Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchE. Summerson Carr, "Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 207
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a professional practice, a behavioral therapy, and a self-professed conversation style that encourages clients to t…
2 years, 6 months ago
Parenting and Climate Change
Episode 214
Today I talked to Jenni Silverstein and Elizabeth Bechard about their study (co-authored wiht Jennifer Walker) "What are the Impacts of Concern about…
2 years, 6 months ago
Resentment: The Complexity of an Emotion and its Effect on Politics
Episode 126
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Rob Schneider, Professor of History at Indiana University-Bloomington,…
2 years, 6 months ago
Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill, "Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 132
What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? And how did these fads become so central to conversations about food and nutrition?
Anxious Eater…
2 years, 6 months ago
Eric B. Elbogen and Nico Verykoukis, "Violence and Mental Illness: Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 213
Mass shootings have become a defining issue of our time. Whenever the latest act of newsworthy violence occurs, mental illness is inevitably cited as…
2 years, 6 months ago
Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
Episode 167
Conflict and trauma remain among the most prevalent themes in film and literature. Comics has never avoided such narratives, and comics artists are w…
2 years, 6 months ago
Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 25
Is free will an illusion? Is addiction a brain disease? Should we enhance our brains beyond normal? Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science (…
2 years, 6 months ago
Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 414
Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? In Why?: The Philosophy Be…
2 years, 6 months ago
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 71
Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As …
2 years, 6 months ago
Traci Cipriano, "The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-being for a Sustainable Legal Profession" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 211
Traci Cipriano's book The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-Being for a Sustainable Legal Profession (Routledge, 2023) is based on an…
2 years, 6 months ago