Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files

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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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Ep 256: Study Psychology On The Go with the Clammr App

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/03/31

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!Hints: Put your

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How to Memorize Freud's Stages of Psychosexual...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/03/22

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Ep 255: London Has a Problem and It's a Job for a...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/03/16

London needs help and only a person trained in psychology can fix this. There are just too many Londoners using their subway (the "tube") and instead of standing side by side as they go up the escalator, people are doing what they always do - they stand single file on the right of the escalator so that people in a hurry can pass on the left. That's a fine social norm when there aren't that many people, but if London transport is going to be usable as the population grows they're going to have to get

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Ep 254: How to Create Great Ways for Seniors to Live

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/01/20

What comes to mind when you think "nursing home"? Not so good, right? Let's change that. Let's use what we learn from psychology to create exciting places for seniors to live. We've got the tools provided by Maslow's Hierarchy and by the Self Determination theory. Here's one way we could revolutionize the "senior years".

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Ep 253: How to Prevent Violence in Your Neighborhood

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2016/01/11

Passengers on an airplane spring to action when a stewardess needs help - but a neighborhood in New York City does very little when a woman is attacked. What's different about these situations? How can we take what we learn from the airplane and apply it to the attack? Lecturing the neighborhood residents probably won't help. Can we do anything to the way the neighborhood is laid out to encourage interaction among residents and a greater sense of interdependency among them? That's what we explore in

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Ep 252: How Psychology Gets You To Slow Down While...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/12/29

How can we use a little psychology to get you to slow down when you're driving? You'd be surprised. Very often road signs like "Slow" or a posted speed limit of, say 20 mph does not work. Drivers go past these signs and nothing bad happens so after a while they're ignored. We try to make it more personal with signs say, "Drive as if your kids live here", but often that doesn't work. How about something trickier: what if we enlisted the help of those 3D sidewalk artists? What could they possibly

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Ep 251: How NOT to Get the Holiday Blues

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/12/15

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Ep 250: How I Used Snapchat with My Class

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/12/08

Snapchat got a pretty bad rap over the past few years, but did you know that you actually can use this video messaging app in ways that really do help students see the applications of what their teachers are learning in their everyday lives. In this episode I share my experiences using Snapchat with my psychology class. Yes it has it's limitations, but it also has some strengths that I think are worth looking at. Join me as I explore snapchat and give you samples of "snaps" I sent my

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Ep 249: How To Build a Psychology App

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/11/25

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Ep 248: Guest Host Bo Bennet on Dysrationalia

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/10/27

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Ep 247: Optimum Arousal Theory

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/10/19

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Ep 246: Why Replications Sometimes Don't Agree with...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/09/14

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Ep 245: The Reproducibility Project: Incentives Out...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/09/08

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Ep 244: Analyze This - Does the Movie Show What...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/08/07

If you have not seen the movie Analyze This with Robert DeNiro and Billy Krystal, then you really should. It's not just a funny movie, bit also gets a lot of things about therapy right. So many movies portray psychotherapy so unrealistically but this movie, while it takes a lot of liberties with the therapeutic process, gets some things right and gives you a pretty good idea of how therapy progresses. Through sound bytes from the movie we'll see examples of catharsis, freudian defense mechanisms of

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Ep 243: Did Your Therapy Really Work?

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/07/22

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Ep 242: The Psychology of Attractiveness: An...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/06/25

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Ep241:I know What You DID'T Do - the Internet of...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2015/06/13

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