Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOnline Shopping
What is it about online shopping that makes us feel so good, even when we don’t actually purchase anything? In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head…
5 years ago
Confronting Noise and Bias
It’s tough to eliminate bias and noise from any decision we make, so how do we deal with all the noise and bias in our life? As Dr. Art Markman and D…
5 years, 1 month ago
Noise Vs. Bias
There is a lot of talk in our society today about eliminating bias from decision making, but it turns out that even if you could do that there are th…
5 years, 1 month ago
Infant-Directed Speech
We may think when we are oohing and aahing at little babies that we are just having fun, but they’re actually learning a lot about language and commu…
5 years, 1 month ago
Money and Happiness (Rebroadcast)
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…
5 years, 1 month ago
Sugar and The Brain (Rebroadcast)
Why is it hard to have just one of those delicious slices of pound cake over the holidays? It turns out it has less to do with the creamy butter …
5 years, 2 months ago
Selective Attention
We may think that being able to pay attention to two or more things at the same time is a character trait. We say, “so and so is just scatterbrained …
5 years, 2 months ago
The What The Hell Effect (Rebroadcast)
There is an observation in psychology that looks at how people behave when they have not lived up to the expectations they set for themselves; the “W…
5 years, 2 months ago
Memory, Trauma, and Treating PTSD (Rebroadcast)
We may underestimate the role that our emotions of an event play in our memory of that event. But it turns out there are ways to manipulate those mem…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Midlife Crisis
We’ve all heard of it, but what is it? On this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the psychology of the mi…
5 years, 3 months ago