Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files

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Ep 188: Psychologists Are Keeping You From Getting...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2013/02/01

Didn't get the flu this past winter? Thank a psychologist. What? Well, it could be that a psychologist was involved in helping health care professionals to do what they know they need to do (but sometimes don't): wash their hands. The issue here is persuasion and motivation: how to we get people to do something - and keep doing it? Health care workers like doctors and nurses can fall prey to the availability heuristic: they can easily remember times when they didn't wash their hands and they

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Episode 72 (video): Memorize the Parts of the Brain...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2013/01/29

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Ep 187: I'd Like to Have an Argument Please! ...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2013/01/23

How would you like to have an argument? Turns out that learning how to have a good argument might just be the best way to learn to think critically. In this episode I discuss a neat piece of research in which 7 and 8 year olds are taught how to effectively argue. And they do a darn good job of it as it turns out. Perhaps this is the way to teach our young people critical thinking: give them some great books to read - like The Giving Tree - and have them discuss what they think about it. The key

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Ep 186: The Shootings at Newtown - Could We Have...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2013/01/06

Everyone was horrified to hear that an adolescent, Adam Lanza, walked into an elementary school and killed 20 children and 6 adults as well as killing himself. Many people have offered their view as to what was wrong with Adam and about what we could have done and should do to prevent these incidents. In this episode I'll share my concerns over what I think is going wrong with community mental health centers and why they probably would NOT have been able to help Adam, which is the extraordinary

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Ep 185: The Dynamics of Therapy: Transference and...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/11/20

Transference and Countertransference are two key concepts in psychoanalysis and they are fascinating. If you're interested in the therapy side of psychology - particularly psychoanalysis - this is the episode for you. Kerry Malawista, psychoanalyst and author, along with Anne Adeleman and Catherine Anderson, talks about their new book, "Wearing My Tutu To Analysis". In this episode we focus on two of the stories in the book, which focus on transference and countertransference.

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Ep 184: Critical Thinking (Part 2) - Important? Yes....

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/11/03

In episode 183 I talked about what critical thinking is and why it's important. Now we talk about why it's so darn hard to teach and to use critical thinking in our everyday lives. In this episode I'll discuss Dr. Daniel Willingham's advice to teachers on what they can do to effectively teach critical thinking - something that couldn't be more important in today's world where misinformation is all around us. Make sure to take a look at the concept map below.

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How SSRIs and MAO Inhibitors Work

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/10/31

Depression and other mental health problems are often treated with medications which are called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and/or Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors. How do they work? I'll show you in this brief video. More free psychology resources at The Psych Files website and podcast: http://www.ThePsychFiles.com

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Ep 183: Critical Thinking - Important? Yes. But Can...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/10/28

Why does it concern psychologists that the Texas GOP platform recently opposed the teaching of critical thinking? Most of us have been told since we were very young that critical thinking is very important. Psychologists certainly agree and a lot of time spent in most psychology classes is spent learning how to think critically. Why is it such a central part of our classes? And here's a kicker: it might be a lot harder to teach it than we had hoped. Find out why critical thinking is so central

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Ep 182: Gamification - Here's How To Do It

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/10/12

Maybe you've heard of gamification, but how do you do it exactly? How do you use game principles to increase people's motivation when they are doing everyday ordinary activities? Find out in this episode of The Psych Files when I show you how I would gamify an ordinary uHaul drive. Listen as I describe "uWin!". I'll first describe some gamification ideas and then show you how I'd put them to work in this rather ordinary truck driving situation. I'll think you'll have fun.

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Ep 181: How Does Self Talk Improve Your Game?

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/09/24

Let's talk sports psychology. When you participate in a sport do you talk to yourself? Do you try to "psych yourself up", or do you give yourself instructions on how to hold a part of your body or how much energy to exert or when to hold back? This is the kind of self-talk that psychologists study and it's interesting to learn when you say these things to yourself and when they'll be most effective. Also, some athletes feel that time slows down for them and they can really "see the ball". Every

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Ep: 180 - Body Language: What Are Your Thumbs...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/08/28

What is your body position revealing about you? Some things are obvious - you probably know that crossed arms indicate a certain distrust. There are also flirting gestures that I'll bet you think you know well (like women playing with their hair and men sticking out their chests), but what about your thumbs? My thumbs? Yes, you might well be revealing something about yourself by where you're putting them would you believe. Listen in as I talk with Craig Baxter, owner of the website

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Ep 179: Lipstick Effect, Stereotype Threat and other...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/08/13

Do women who work in typically male dominated jobs "play down" their femininity in order to be gain more respect from their male co-workers? In this episode we'll explore this stereotype threat as well as something you may not have heard of: the lipstick effect. How do men and women change their appearance or their behavior during times of economic depression? In this all-gender episode we look at these issues as well as why the new Volkswagen Beetle has changed its appearance. Yes, the 2012

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5 Essential Study Techniques

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/08/09

An audio in which I explain 5 study techniques that have solid research support. These techniques will help students get better grades on their tests.

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Ep 178: What Does Embodied Cognition have to do with...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/07/02

There is a lot of talk these days about a fascinating idea called embodied cognition. What is it exactly? In this lively interview I talk with two people who are actively looking into this question. We discuss how the body and mind "talk" to each other when baseball players catch fly balls and what role psychology plays in the design of robots.

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EP 177: Why You Hate Psychology - Media Bias and...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/06/24

In this follow-up to episode 176 I discuss two more reasons why I believe some people either don't like or just distrust psychology: 1) the belief that it is not a science, and 2) the belief - created by the media - that psychologists make a lot of money for giving out common sense advice. I hope you'll see that psychology is not unlike other sciences in that we study something extremely complex and yes, sometimes our findings are contradictory and they change over time. Also, the media focuses -

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EP 176: Why You Hate Psychology - Self Esteem...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/06/19

Why do so many people have strongly negative feelings about the field of psychology? I think there are a handful of reasons and in this episode I talk about two of them: the so-called "self-esteem movement" and the "positive thinking" movement. Are psychologists responsible for why "kids today" appear to be so self-centered? Do psychologists think that changing yourself is as simple as just changing the way you think? Hear one psychologists opinion on this and my explanation on two reasons why I

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Ep: 175 - How to Protect Yourself from the Persuasive...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2012/05/22

In the market for a car? Believe me: they have seen you coming and they are ready to use some sophisticated techniques to persuade you to buy. Be prepared. Watch this episode of The Psych Files and learn how the persuasion techniques described by psychologist Robert Cialdini are being used to change your attitudes and behavior to align with the goals of the salesman.

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