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062 - Naive Realism - Lee Ross
In psychology, they call it naive realism, the tendency to believe that the other side is wrong simply because they are misinformed.
According to Lee …
10 years, 3 months ago
061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft
You have the power to wield neuroplasticity to your advantage.
Just as you can change your body at the atomic level by lifting weights, you can willfu…
10 years, 4 months ago
060 - Reframing - Robert R. Morris
Reframing is one of those psychological tools that just plain works. It’s practical, simple, and with practice and repetition it often leads to real …
10 years, 4 months ago
059 - The Illusion Of Control - Michael And Sarah Bennett
In the show, you'll hear Michael elaborate on why that is. In this episode, our guests are Harvard-trained psychiatrist Michael I. Bennett and his co…
10 years, 5 months ago
058 - Technology - Clive Thompson (Rebroadcast)
Is all this new technology improving our thinking or dampening it? Are all these new communication tools turning us into navel-gazing human/brand hyb…
10 years, 5 months ago
057 - PTSD - Robert D. Laird
10 years after Katrina the residents of New Orleans and portions of Mississippi are still experiencing PTSD. In this episode we explore what causes t…
10 years, 6 months ago
056 - Magicians And Scams - Brian Brushwood
Before we had names for them or a science to study them, the people who could claim the most expertise on biases, fallacies, heuristics and all the o…
10 years, 6 months ago
055 - WEIRD People - Steven J. Heine
Is psychology too WEIRD? That's what this episode's guest, psychologist Steven J. Heine suggested when he and his colleagues published a paper sugges…
10 years, 7 months ago
054 - The Self - Bruce Hood (rebroadcast)
Is the person you believe to be the protagonist of your life story real or a fictional character? In other words, is your very self real or is it an …
10 years, 7 months ago
053 - Adaptive Learning - Ulrik Christensen
Can new computer programs rid us of the cognitive errors that lead to learned helplessness in the classroom? In this episode Ulrik Christensen, senio…
10 years, 8 months ago