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What is it like to remember every day of your life? With Michael Yassa, PhD, and Markie Pasternak
Episode 140
For people with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, or HSAM, every day is memorable. Ask them what they were doing on this date 10 years ago, an…
5 years, 4 months ago
Your Brain Is Not What You Think It Is, with Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD
Episode 139
What if the way you think about your brain and how and why it functions is just plain wrong? Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, a professor of psychology at …
5 years, 4 months ago
How to cope with climate anxiety, with Thomas Doherty, PsyD, and Ashlee Cunsolo, PhD
Episode 138
Over the past several years, climate change has moved from an abstract idea to a reality in many Americans’ lives – a reality that we are increasingl…
5 years, 4 months ago
Why you should talk to strangers, with Gillian Sandstrom, PhD, and Jon Levy
Episode 137
Despite the fact that so many people profess to dislike making small talk, it turns out that talking to strangers and acquaintances can actually stre…
5 years, 4 months ago
Suicide prevention, with Jill Harkavy-Friedman, PhD
Episode 136
It’s too soon to know what effect the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the suicide rate in the United States, but even before the pandemic, that rate had…
5 years, 5 months ago
What Makes Things Funny? With Peter McGraw, PhD
Episode 135
What is it about puns that tickles our funny bone? Or dad jokes? How about a person slipping on a banana peel? What could possibly tie all these very…
5 years, 5 months ago
How the threat of disease has shaped human behavior, with Mark Schaller, PhD
Episode 134
The COVID-19 pandemic is a grim reminder that infectious diseases have been a danger throughout human history–so much so that the threat of infection…
5 years, 5 months ago
What COVID-19 is teaching us about the importance of smell, with Pamela Dalton, PhD
Episode 133
Many people around the world have lost their sense of smell this past year due to COVID-19. Before the pandemic, scientists had already begun to gain…
5 years, 5 months ago
How We’re Coping One Year into the Pandemic, with Vaile Wright, PhD
Episode 132
When the world shut down in March 2020, few people imagined how different things would still look one year later – or that more than 500,000 American…
5 years, 6 months ago
How meditation can help you live a flourishing life, with Richard Davidson, PhD
Episode 131
Meditation practices date back thousands of years and are a part of nearly every major religion. But it’s only in the past couple of decades that res…
5 years, 6 months ago