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Two Guys on Your Head

KUT & KUTX Studios, Dr. Art Markman & Dr. Bob Duke

Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explain how our brain works.

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8:21

The Sh*t Sandwich

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/12/31

You may think that bookending a critique in two compliments is a good strategy, but it turns out it has unintended negative consequences. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the psychology of the “sh*t sandwich.” The post The Sh*t Sandwich appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:07

Loyalty and Dissent (Rebroadcast)

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2021/12/24

Loyalty is an interesting and elusive concept. As much as we may profess our loyalty to a certain organization, institution, person, belief system, etc. if that bond–as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, –is only as strong as your last dissenting act, it may be time […] The post Loyalty and Dissent (Rebroadcast) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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7:57

Feeling Positive Emotions

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2021/12/17

Are extroverts really happier than introverts? It turns out, maybe, but there is more to the story. In the third installment of our Two Guys on Your Head series on attributes of mental wellness, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about a subcomponent of the personality characteristic of extroversion that has to do […] The post Feeling Positive Emotions appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:15

Openness To Feelings

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/12/10

It turns out that being open to feelings–happy, sad, angry, uncomfortable…– is an important element of mental wellness. But there is a lot to unpack. In the second installment of KUT’s Two Guys on Your Head series on the characteristics of mental wellness, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about a facet of […] The post Openness To Feelings appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:39

Characteristics of The Mentally Well

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2021/12/02

A recent study suggests there are 4 characteristics that mentally well people share: openness to feelings, openness to emotions, truthfulness, and they’re not neurotic. But what does that really mean? In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke unpack this study and talk about what it can […] The post Characteristics of The Mentally Well appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:03

Money and Happiness

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/11/26

The idea that money doesn’t make you happy is easy to get behind if you have it, but if you don’t it’s a hard one to buy into (pun intended). Yet the correlation between money and happiness is more complicated than one might think. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art […] The post Money and Happiness appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:04

Sugar and The Brain

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/11/19

Why is it hard to have just one of those delicious slices of pound cake over the holidays? Well, it turns out it has less to do with the creamy butter and more to do with the way our brains react to those sweet white grains of sugar. In this edition of Two Guys on […] The post Sugar and The Brain appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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7:59

Compliments

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/11/12

Giving someone a compliment is more complicated than it might seem, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, the benefits of compliments are extensive. The post Compliments appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:00

How vs. Why Knowledge (Rebroadcast)

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/11/06

Because we know “how” things work sometimes we think we understand “why” these things work as they do, and that can be a problem. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the difference between “how” vs. “why” knowledge, and why it’s important to recognize […] The post How vs. Why Knowledge (Rebroadcast) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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7:50

Repressing Emotions

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/10/29

It doesn’t feel good when you can’t express your emotions, but the effect of repressing emotions can have reproductions far beyond just feeling bad. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the psychology of repressing emotions. The post Repressing Emotions appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:18

Anger Management

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/10/25

One could ask, if we need anger management why don’t we also need management for other emotions? Turns out anger management isn’t a new thing at all and, as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, for good reason. The post Anger Management appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:21

Anger and Motivation

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/10/19

We might not have the most positive associations with anger, and for good reason. Anger can be threatening and lead to destruction, but it can also move us to get off the dime and do something. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about anger and motivation. The post Anger and Motivation appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:13

Math, Music, and The Brain

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/10/08

There are some things that just feel like they’re true. For example, the idea that people who are gifted musicians are also good at learning math, or vice versa. However, there isn’t any data that suggests that there are any links in the brain between these proclivities. As Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke […] The post Math, Music, and The Brain appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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7:52

The Language of Emotion

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/09/24

We have a limited number of ways to experience the world psychologically, but many ways to interpret that experience. In that interpretation, the words we use are very important and perhaps in surprising ways. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the language we […] The post The Language of Emotion appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:15

Outcome Bias

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/09/17

A listener wrote in: “Please take a moment to address why September 11, 2001, is still a cultural touchstone, but February 26, 1993, was so easily forgotten.” Thank you for the question Bob M. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about remembering 9/11 and […] The post Outcome Bias appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:12

Remembering 9/11

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/09/10

When we live through a profound and historic event we have a different understanding of it than if we just read about it. That has a complex and interesting significance on how we see the world. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the […] The post Remembering 9/11 appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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7:57

Learning Conflict Resolution

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/09/03

As humans, we don’t come ready to interact with the world when we are born. We have to learn a language, we have to learn how to roll over, to walk, to hold things, we have to learn all kinds of things. One thing that psychologists have been asking for a long time is how […] The post Learning Conflict Resolution appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:17

Bad Science (Rebroadcast)

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/08/27

Why do we continue to believe in ideas that sound scientific long after they have been scientifically proven to be incorrect? That is the question that Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke take on in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head. The post Bad Science (Rebroadcast) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:46

Lila Gleitman

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/08/20

Lila Gleitman was an American professor of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. who passed on August 8, 2021, at the age of 91. She was an internationally renowned expert on language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics, focusing on children’s learning of their first language. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, […] The post Lila Gleitman appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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8:14

The Story of COVID and Processing Grief

Two Guys on Your Head ·

2021/08/12

We make sense of things by creating stories about them; our brains want to connect the dots. But it turns out that life has its own sequence that sometimes doesn’t make much sense. This brings us to COVID and the illogical logic of the evolution of the virus that keeps going even after some thought […] The post The Story of COVID and Processing Grief appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

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