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190 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)
Stuck in a bad situation, even when the prison doors are left wide open, we sometimes refuse to attempt escape. Why is that?
In this episode learn al…
6 years ago
189 - The Vaccine
In this giant episode, experts on vaccines, epidemiology, psychology, and science communication explain how we created so much confusion about COVID-…
6 years ago
188 - The Happiness Lab - Laurie Santos (rebroadcast)
In this episode, we welcome Yale psychologist Laurie Santos who discusses her new podcast, The Happiness Lab which explores how wrong and misguided w…
6 years, 1 month ago
187 - Bad Habits - Jud Brewer (rebroadcast)
In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer, a neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist, discusses bad habits and how to change them.
He is the author of The Cr…
6 years, 1 month ago
186 - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb (rebroadcast)
In Lori Gottlieb's new book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, she opens with a quote from James Baldwin that reads, "Nothing is more desirable than …
6 years, 2 months ago
185 - Masks
In this episode we explore the psychology behind why some people don't want to wear masks, why they get angry at the idea, and why they sometimes tak…
6 years, 2 months ago
184 - The Blind Spots Between Us - Gleb Tsipursky
Our guest in this episode is Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, a disaster-avoidance expert who has spent more than 20 years training businesses how to de-bias them…
6 years, 3 months ago
183 - Black Lives Matter
In this episode, members of the Association of Black Psychologists gather in a roundtable discussion to explore Black Lives Matter and the social mov…
6 years, 3 months ago
182 - The A/B Effect (rebroadcast)
So, you might think that, in general, as an idea, as a practice, the A/B test would be beloved, supported, and encouraged as a way to test out polici…
6 years, 4 months ago
181 - Pluralistic Ignorance (rebroadcast)
There are several ways to define pluralistic ignorance, and that’s because it’s kind of a brain twister when you try to put it into words. On certain…
6 years, 4 months ago