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Psychology After Dark

Dr. Jessica Micono and Dr. David Morelos

Two professionals in the field of psychology from wildly different theoretical and practical orientations getting together to take a look at the dark side of the human condition.

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Episode 29 - Instincts: Friend or Foe?

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/11/23

Has anyone ever told you, “You are your own worst enemy?” Even the smartest people can make incredibly bad decisions, often sabotaging their own goals and even bringing harm to others. Drs. Rob Barrett and Louis Francescutti have taken this basic idea and applied their respective expertise to look at why we often make decisions that are bad for our overall health, despite having volumes of information at our finger tips. In this interview you will discover how the most primitive part of our brain

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00:39:11

Episode 28 - The Watts Family Murders

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/11/09

In November of 2012 Chris Watts married Shanann Rzucek, two years after a chance meeting on Facebook. For the next six years, it seemed that Shanann and Chris had everything they dreamed of, including a large house in Colorado, blossoming careers, and two lovely daughters. In June of 2018, Shanann surprised Chris with news that they would be having a third child. In August of the same year, Chris would brutally murder the pregnant Shanann and his young daughters, Celeste and Bella, after Shanann

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00:41:42

Episode 27 - The Amityville Hauntings

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/10/26

On November 13, 1974, Ronald Defeo Jr. burst into a local bar pleading for help. When bar patrons arrived at his house they found six of his relatives dead, each shot at point-blank range. The grisly murders then led to a theatrical trial where Defeo claimed he was mentally insane due to numerous voices in his head that commanded him to kill his family. After Defeo’s conviction for the murders, the Lutz family, believing that they were getting a bargain, quickly bought the house the Defeo’s were

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00:40:49

Episode 26 - MK Ultra Mind Control Experiments

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/06/22

In the anti-communist furor of the 1950s, the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency or CIA began a clandestine program dedicated to the interrogation of foreign agents. It was believed that if techniques could be perfected to control someone’s mind, spies could be caught and turned, thereby giving up useful intelligence information in what would soon become known as “The Cold War.” In the pursuit of this objective, countless experiments were conducted, many without the participant’s knowledge or

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00:55:33

Episode 25 - Waco Part 2: The "Good" Guys

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/06/08

On the morning of February 28, 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms arrived with close to 100 agents to serve a warrant for illegal firearms in what they called Operation Trojan Horse. What followed was one of the worst firefights in law enforcement history, as agents of the ATF faced off with a heavily armed group known as the Branch Davidians. Two hours later, four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians would lay dead. The FBI soon assumed control of the confrontation, engaging the

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00:46:34

Episode 24 - Waco Part 1: The "Bad" Guys

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/05/25

On February 28th, 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms attempted to serve a warrant on a religious group at their compound outside of Waco, Texas. Known as the Branch Davidians, the group was an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventists who had left the organization and banded together under the leadership of a Bulgarian immigrant named Victor Houteff in 1930. Through a series of intrigues and internal battles, control of the group landed with Vernon Howell, the young man who would become

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00:49:34

Episode 23 - Conspiracy Theories

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/05/11

In December of 2019, medical officials began noticing several mysterious cases of pneumonia in residents of Wuhan, China. As they began to investigate, patterns started to emerge. On January 11th, 2020, China reported its first death associated with a novel coronavirus. By January 30th, just one month after the disease was first reported in China, the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency. The virus continued to spread quickly, ferociously infecting countries like Italy, Iran,

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00:49:50

Episode 22 - The Stuff of Nightmares

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/04/27

At the age of 10, Dr. Micono had a nightmare that she clung to the Colossus of Rhodes while the island was shaken by a terrifying earthquake. The images and feelings from this dream would go on to influence her for the rest of her life. Most of us can remember at least one dream or nightmare that haunts us. As we continue to wrestle with the effects of the pandemic, many of us have been experiencing unusually intense and profound dreams. What is the nature of dreaming? Do our dreams and nightmares

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00:41:56

Episode 21 - The War of the Worlds Mass Panic

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/04/13

On October 30th, 1938, a young actor by the name of Orson Welles, in collaboration with a number of other radio actors, presented a dramatization of H.G. Wells’ famous novel, War of the Worlds. According to legend, many people, believing that the show was a genuine news broadcast, began to panic. As the story of the mass panic grew, it developed into a much larger and darker narrative. What is the nature of mass hysteria? What can trigger our sense of self-preservation so deeply that we turn on each

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00:55:11

Episode 20 - The Sandy Hook Shooting

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/03/30

On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed Nancy Lanza, Rachel D’Avino, Dawn Hochsprung, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Rousseau, Mary Sherlach, Victoria Leigh Soto, Charlotte Bacon, Daniel Barden, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Dylan Hockley, Madeleine Hsu, Catherine Hubbard, Chase Kowalski, Jesse Lewis, Ana Marquez-Greene, James Mattioli, Grace McDonnell, Emilie Parker, Jack Pinto, Noah Pozner, Caroline Previdi, Jessica Rekos, Avielle Richman, Benjamin Wheeler, and Allison Wyatt in one

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00:49:04

Episode 19 - Abu Ghraib

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/03/16

After the fall of Saddam Hussein’s brutal dictatorship in Iraq, American forces requisitioned a number of prisons he had once used to house prisoners suspected of terrorism against American soldiers. A series of leaked photographs of American soldiers and prisoners would bring US forces into the world spotlight for their own human rights abuses. How responsible are soldiers for their actions in the chaos of war? Can our environment explain extreme acts of brutality? Join us this week as Drs. Micono

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Episode 18 - The Cult of Santa Muerte Part 2

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/03/02

While there will always be a legitimate form, an official version, or an orthodoxy, sometimes it seems the “unofficial,” the “illegitimate,” or the “unorthodox,” can be just as powerful, and representative of an even more potent truth. The case of Santa Muerte, the Mexican folk-saint of death, is one such enigmatic example. She is a creation of the street people, the lower class, the poor and the suffering, in one of the largest cities in the world. She often attracts the worst: drug dealers,

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00:46:17

Episode 17 - Ed Gein

Psychology After Dark ·

2020/02/17

In the violent history of serial killers, one name seems to stand out among the others. Ed Gein, known as a shut-in by the townsfolk of Plainfield, Wisconsin, was found to have murdered a local woman named Bernice Worden. What followed were some of the most gruesome and shocking discoveries in American serial killer history, as a collection of body parts, some used to make a “woman suit,” were found by local police. The nature of Ed Gein’s crimes would go on to inspire other horrific fictional

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00:53:36

Episode 16 - The Case of Shirley Mason (AKA Sybil...

Psychology After Dark ·

2019/11/18

In 1973 psychologist Dr. Cornelia Wilber was suddenly thrust into the spotlight for groundbreaking work she had done with Shirley Mason, known to the world as Sybil Dorsett. This work, published in a book by Flora Schreiber, documented the years of treatment Dr. Wilber had done with Mason for Multiple Personality Disorder, known today as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). This event brought the concept of multiple personalities into popular culture and kicked off an intense debate in contemporary

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00:45:40

Episode 15 - The Slender Man Stabbing

Psychology After Dark ·

2019/11/04

On the evening of May 30th, 2014, three adolescent friends, Anissa Weier, Morgan Geyser, and Payton Leutner whose friends called, “Bella,” all spent the night playing games and celebrating Morgan’s 12th birthday. The next morning, Anissa and Morgan tried to stab Bella to death in a nearby forest to appease a dark figure known only as Slender Man. What is the nature of insanity? How is the magical thinking of children often influenced by mass media? How did a random creation by a 29-year-old for a

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00:38:18

Episode 14 - The Salem Witch Trials

Psychology After Dark ·

2019/10/21

Between 1692 and 1693, Puritans in the British colony in Salem, Massachusetts, became hysterical believing that they were under attack by people in league with the devil practicing the sinister magic of witchcraft. What began with the strange physical ailments of three young girls quickly grew into a panic amongst the settlers. What kind of irrational fear would condemn 19 people, overwhelmingly women, to be hanged, and one man crushed to death, without the slightest bit of empirical evidence?

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00:51:46

Episode 13 - The Unabomber Part 2

Psychology After Dark ·

2019/10/07

Where is the line between a strange belief and a true delusion? This week, Drs. Micono and Morelos use the Unabomber's "manifesto" to begin a discussion on his motives toward violence and the forces that, according to him, will eventually lead to our own destruction. Follow them on an exploration of one of the most fascinating cases of true crime in recent history.

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00:11:02

Suicide Prevention Month (Bonus Episode)

Psychology After Dark ·

2019/09/28

September is National Suicide Prevention Month so Drs. Micono and Morelos wanted to take a few minutes to discuss this important topic. Please take care of yourselves out there!

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00:43:56

Episode 12 - The Unabomber Part 1

Psychology After Dark ·

2019/09/23

In 1996 the FBI, in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies, caught one of the most elusive and terrifyingly effective domestic terrorists in history. It was then that America got its first look at Theodore Kaczynski, otherwise known as the Unabomber. With an IQ well above genius level and a chance at a brilliant career, Kaczynski chose instead a life of virtual isolation where he toiled at writing his own philosophy and building implements of destruction. Was this a case of a legitimate

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00:40:26

Episode 11 - Out of Body Experiences

Psychology After Dark ·

2019/09/09

Millions of people throughout history and across cultures have described the sensation of leaving their material body behind. Is the out of body experience a profound characterization of disembodied consciousness, or the result of our brain responding to ordinary stimuli? This week, Drs. Micono and Morelos use the famous experience of Ernest Hemmingway, described in his most famous book, as a starting point to discuss examples of OBEs, or out of body experiences.

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