Podcast Episodes

Neuroticism

A recent study suggests there are 4 characteristics that mentally well people share: openness to feelings, openness to emotions, truthfulness, and th…

4 years, 5 months ago

Truthfulness

A recent study suggests there are 4 characteristics that mentally well people share: openness to feelings, openness to emotions, truthfulness, and th…

4 years, 6 months ago

The Sh*t Sandwich

You may think that bookending a critique in two compliments is a good strategy, but it turns out it has unintended negative consequences. In this epi…

4 years, 6 months ago

Loyalty and Dissent (Rebroadcast)

Loyalty is an interesting and elusive concept. As much as we may profess our loyalty to a certain organization, institution, person, belief system, e…

4 years, 6 months ago

Feeling Positive Emotions

Are extroverts really happier than introverts? It turns out, maybe, but there is more to the story.

In the third installment of our Two Guys on Your …

4 years, 6 months ago

Openness To Feelings

It turns out that being open to feelings–happy, sad, angry, uncomfortable…– is an important element of mental wellness. But there is a lot to unpack.…

4 years, 7 months ago

Characteristics of The Mentally Well

A recent study suggests there are 4 characteristics that mentally well people share: openness to feelings, openness to emotions, truthfulness, and th…

4 years, 7 months ago

Money and Happiness

The idea that money doesn’t make you happy is easy to get behind if you have it, but if you don’t it’s a hard one to buy into (pun intended). Yet the…

4 years, 7 months ago

Sugar and The Brain

Why is it hard to have just one of those delicious slices of pound cake over the holidays? Well, it turns out it has less to do with the creamy butte…

4 years, 7 months ago

Compliments

Giving someone a compliment is more complicated than it might seem, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this edition of Two Guys on…

4 years, 7 months ago