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Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files

Learn how theories in psychology affect you in everyday life. Upbeat and interesting podcasts from experienced psychology teacher Michael Britt give you a bit more insight into you and your life.

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Ep 336: Why is it Usually Men Who Commit Violent Acts?

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2020/05/11

Another violent act in America. Another man who committed it. Why do men in our society seem to always be the ones who carry out violent acts? Is it how we bring up boys? Or is there another influence - genes. I was lucky enough to get professor Steve Stewart-Williams, author of the book The Ape That Understood the Universe, so come back to the show and share more about the evolutionary Psychology perspective on this complex issue. And by the way, you can use the promo code APE20 to purchase this

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Katie Weiser: National Anthem

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2019/09/16

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Katie Weiser: Summertime

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2019/09/16

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Avengers Ending

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2019/05/24

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Avengers Clip

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2019/05/24

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An Interview with Dr. Nancy Haug on her Cannibis...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2019/02/28

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Key Ingredients to Significance Quest Theory

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2018/04/20

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Ep 267: Applying an Established Memory Strategy...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/11/15

The printed word has been around for a long time. Bet you thought there was nothing new in how we put words together in a book or website. Well, guess again. Researchers at Asymmetrica have drawn upon a tried and true memory strategy called "chunking" and applied it to - get this - the amount of white space between words. Would we be able to improve literacy if we ever so slightly adjusted the amount of space between words so that it better reflected our everyday speech patters? Psychologist Chris

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Ep 266: Productive Confusion with Jeremiah Sullins

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/10/20

We often like it when things are explained to us clearly, but would you believe that sometimes it's better if you're just down-right confused? You could actually learn more if at some point in the learning process you feel like you don't know what's going on. In part 2 of my interview with researcher and professor Jeremiah Sullins, we talk about much more you could learn if you spend a little time being absolutely perplexed at what's going on. You may have heard of this as "desirable

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Ep: 265: Why Do You REALLY Support That Candidate?...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/10/16

Why do you vote the way you do? Have you read through all the various candidates position statements, or do you just kinda go with your "gut"? Jeremiah Sullins, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harding University has looked at this question in great depth and he's found some really interesting answers to this question. I think you'll really enjoy hearing about his research into your voting behavior.

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Ep 264: How To Make Study Groups Effective

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/10/01

In a previous episode I talked about the kinds of dynamics that can occur in groups (social loafing, diffusion of responsibility) that can make them ineffective learning experiences as well as just not fun. In this episode I interview Dr. Karen Christian who has watched how many study groups in action and she has uncovered quite a few things that study groups need to do differently so that everybody actually learns and gets ready for an upcoming test. She's got some very useful suggestions for

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Ep 263: Using Psychology in Your Work: Part 2 of My...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/09/12

How do you "apply a little psychology" to tough jobs like building an online community and to creating a product that people will want to use frequently? In part 2 of my interview with author and Feverbee founder Richard Millington we talk about two key theories from psychology: self-determination theory and Robert Cialdini's persuasion techniques. I think you'll find these real world examples very practical.

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Ep 262: Using Psychology to Build Active Online...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/09/06

What do you do with a background in psychology? A lot of things. How about running an online community? I found Richard Millington, founder of Feverbee, talking about how he applies psychology to his business of helping organizations build strong, active online communities. As you've probably seen in your travels about the web, there are a lot of communities (such as those on Facebook) and sometimes you join them because you're interested in the person or the product the company sells. Then what

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Ep 261: Demonic Possession or A Lack of Skeptical...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/08/19

Is it possible that some people who we think are mentally ill are actually victims of demonic possession? One psychiatrist says yes. Another psychiatrist says no - believing this is true is a matter of not carefully thinking about what you see and hear from others. In this episode I break down the claims made by Richard Gallagher and a counterpoint to Gallagher which was written by Steven Novella. Along the way we'll learn about logical fallacies such as the "argument for incredulity" and the

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Ep 261: Which of These Scientific Terms Are You Using...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/07/11

Do you think you're using the words "control group" correctly? You're probably not. In fact, you're probably also getting these terms wrong as well: "truth serum", "lie detector", "bystander apathy", "personality type", Oxytocin, "closure" and even the "scientific method"! In this episode I review some of the points made by Scott Lilienfeld and his colleagues regarding scientific terms that you're probably using incorrectly.

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Ep 260: We're All Addicted To Our Phones. How You Can...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/06/22

Cell phones: they're here and they're not going away. So now it's time to "stop worrying and learn to love them". If you're upset about how addicted teens are to their phones I'll give you a few ideas that, hopefully, will make you feel better. After all, cellphones aren't going away. Quite the opposite. They're only going to get more powerful and more ubiquitous. The "pull" of the phone is irresistible. In this follow-up to episode 258 I want to talk about how adults and parents can feel less

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Ep 259: How Could You Have Missed That?

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/05/26

What is change blindness? How could you miss some of the most obvious things that change right in front of you? Millions of people watch a video of kids playing basketball and they miss the fact that a gorilla walks right through the scene. A gorilla? And people missed it? Yup. We often miss lots of things that happen right in front of us because our attention spans work in strange ways. And because what happened isn't what we expected to happen. Let's learn about change blindness.

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Ep: 258 - 5 Reasons Why You're Addicted to Your Phone...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/04/27

Why do we find it so hard to put down our phones? I'll give you 5 reasons drawn directly from psychological theories on how we learn, how teenagers are strongly affected by reward and how we are all drawn in by mystery. There is of course no easy answer for how to get teens to put down their phones but I'll share what I'm doing with my teenagers.

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Ep 157: What IS in Baloney Anyway? Let's Find Out Why...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/04/14

I grew up eating baloney without ever giving a thought to where it came from. But psychology is all reflecting on who you are, why you think the way you do and why you do what you do. So let's explore our eating behavior: why do we think it's weird or wrong when we hear that in some cultures people eat cat meat or insects or bats. Is it really that different from eating cows and pigs? How are we influenced to think that some foods are okay while others aren't...?

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Ep 256 (Audio Version): Study Psychology On The Go...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/04/04

What if you could study for your psychology test in 24 second sound bytes on your iPhone? Now you can. I recently contacted Parviv - the founder of an app called Clammr. Typically, people use Clammr to stay on top of the news, listen to podcasts or "top tweets" and other humorous audio clips. I thought it would make a great test prep tool. So check it out: download Clammr on your iPhone and search for Psych Fest Prep. You can choose from 7 major psychology topics and start studying!

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