Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files

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Ep 154: 5 Reasons Why Casey Anthony MIGHT Be Innocent

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/07/08

The trial of accused child murdered Casey Anthony is over and Casey was found not guilty. Most people are extremely upset because she appeared to be guilty for many reasons. I give you 5 reasons why Casey Anthony might not be guilty. None of these are based on evidence, but instead on what might be going on inside your mind that made you think she was guilty. Caution: open mindedness required!

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23:02

The REAL Truth About Why You Support (or Oppose) Gay...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/06/28

What is the REAL reason why you either support or oppose gay marriage? We may give logical reasons for our opinions, but the roots behind your opinion lies - where else? - in your past. So let's dive into your mind as we always do here in the Psych Files and learn how our attitudes develop over time and how strong attitudes especially come to be held.

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24:17

How Do You Change Your Behavior? Interview with...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/06/21

How does Behavior Modification work? Find out in this episode as I interview Scott Milford, author of the Behavior and Motivation website. If you're about how to apply Psychology to everyday life then this is the guy to show you how he does it. In this episode we talk about how to get kids to practice the piano, but you'll quickly see how this approach could be applied to all kinds of other life challenges. Scott developed his approach over many years of working with young people both at the

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15:12

Heuristics (Video): Rules of Thumb Explained -...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/06/18

We all take shortcuts when we are making decisions. And in those shortcuts often lie our mistakes. In this episode find out the difference between the availability and representativeness heuristics, as well as the "Take the Best", Hindsight, and the Base Rate Neglect (Fallacy) heuristics. Lots of examples of these heuristics at work are included. Let's face it - we all have lazy minds! Either that or we're all too busy to try to weed through complicated statistics and probabilities. Heuristics

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15:20

Audio: Object Permanence - Does Your Dog Have It? ...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/06/07

Piaget's concept of object permanence is essential to understand. But how did they study this idea among 1 year olds? Obviously children can't tell you that they believe that something no longer exists when they can't see it, so how do we know what is going on inside a child's mind? How about this challenge: do animals also understand object permanence? If you've ever seen your cat or dog look under or around objects for a lost toy then yes - you've seen that they do understand object

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15:20

Video: Object Permanence - Does Your Dog Have It? ...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/06/07

Piaget's concept of object permanence is essential to understand. But how did they study this idea among 1 year olds? Obviously children can't tell you that they believe that something no longer exists when they can't see it, so how do we know what is going on inside a child's mind? How about this challenge: do animals also understand object permanence? If you've ever seen your cat or dog look under or around objects for a lost toy then yes - you've seen that they do understand object

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Date Rape: How Can We Prevent It? Episode 149

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/05/31

You've probably heard of many times when people knew that someone was hurt or might be hurt and they did not help. How can we prevent that from happening? You may have learned about bystander apathy and the concept of diffusion of responsibility. But now what do we DO with what we know? How can we put that knowledge into action? Meet Vicky Banyard and see what she and her colleagues at the University of New Hampshire are doing with a program called Bring in the Bystander. Bringing in the

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32:36

What Can We Do To End Anti-Gay Bullying in Schools?...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/05/22

What can we do to end bullying against gays? There is a shocking increase in the number of young homosexuals who are commit suicide. Many anti-bullying programs don't work and in this episode I talk to Dr. Elizabeth J. Meyer of Concordia University about what can be done. No one should be bullied and we all need to care about those who are bullied to the point of considering suicide. Find out more in this episode.

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20:54

On Yawning, Swearing, Credit Cards and Sex: Psych...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/05/18

In this first "Psych Files Brief" episode, we look at whether swearing actually reduces your sensation of pain (ever stub your toe?), whether or not vertical stripes actually do make you look thinner (no surprise - the answer is no), whether you're more likely to run up that credit card when you're feeling low, and why is it (and when is it) that yawns become contagious?

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25:05

Borderline Personality: What is it? Could Your Cell...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/05/12

Borderline Personality Disorder is a difficult disorder to understand and treat. Briefly, people who suffer from BPD tend to have a heightened sensitivity to rejection. When they feel that they are being rejected they can react with strong feelings of anger. Their emotions can be very intense and vary widely during the day. This can also make their relationships very unstable. They can also be very impulsive. However, a recent fascinating piece of research used a mobile device and what's

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29:06

Episode 145: Why a Tiger Mom Approach to Parenting...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/04/12

Feeling guilty about not being a "Tiger Mom" (or Dad)? Let me give you 3 reasons why you don't have to feel that way. Get yourself ready for the next time that someone says that you (or parents in general) have to be tougher on our kids. You've probably heard about the authoritarian parenting style advocated by Amy Chua in her Tiger Mom book. Lots of Americans think she has good point that the problems with American kids is that they are being raised with too much leeway, and that we're not

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24:23

Episode 144: The Drowsy Chaperone Holds the Key to Life!

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/03/25

Americans spend billions of dollars on self-help products each year, but does someone else hold the answers to your questions about what your life is all about? Join me as I discuss a fascinating book called If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him!. We also see how a wonderful recent broadway musical, The Drowsy Chaperone has some very intriguing things to say about life. Could it be that there is some existentialism in that musical? Listen to this episode to find out.

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Episode 96 (video): The Phonetic Alphabet Part 2

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/03/20

In this video you’ll learn exactly how the phonetic alphabet system works. In the last episode you saw me memorize – almost perfectly – a list of 20 top sci-fi movies. How did I do it? I’ll show you how each number becomes a letter, each letter becomes a word and each word becomes an image that will help you memorize just about any size list. Skeptical? You won’t be after seeing exactly how the phonetic alphabet works.

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17:14

The Phonetic Alphabet Part 1

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/03/20

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Episode 143: EMDR - An Interview with Founder...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/03/19

Curious about EMDR? Listen to this interview with the founder of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Dr. Francine Shapiro talk about EMDR and how it is different from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This is an intriguing and unique type of therapy and if you want to learn more about it you've come to the right place. EMRD Institute EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs Rewrite the textbooks: Findings challenge conventional wisdom of how neurons operate

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Episode 142: How To Make Jobs More Satisfying and...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/03/06

Do you have a dull job? Wonder how it can be made more motivating? That's the challenge - how can we make jobs that are typically not much fun (like an assembly line job) more interesting to do? This is one of the challenges facing I/O psychologists and in this episode I discuss the Job Characteristics theory by Hackman and Oldham and apply it to assembly line jobs in China where your iPhone is made and where a record number of suicides have occurred over the past few years. Can we use job

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16:59

Episode 141: Psychology Gets Smart: A New Kind of Lie...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/02/27

You've probably heard that the so called "Lie Detector" test (the polygraph)doesn't actually detect when you've lied, but rather just takes some physiological measures from your body and these have to be interpreted by experts. Sometimes those experts make mistakes. Join me as I describe a psychological study that tested a new kind of "Lie Detector" - drawings. This study involved Agents, Missions, an Interception, and a mysterious "package". This is psychology? You better believe it.

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26:14

Episode 140: Psychoanalyzing Jack Lalanne

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/02/06

In this episode I put Jack Lalanne "on the couch". I take selections from several of his vidoes and see what they reveal about his personality. He was clearly passionate about exercise, but what drove this passion? What was his underlying motivation? I suggest that his relationship with his father was crucial to his passion for exercise and fitness. Join me as I do a little armchair psychoanalysis of Jack Lalanne.Jack Lalanne The Ripped and the Righteous

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Episode 139: Blaming the Victim in Reverse - the...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2011/01/23

I'll bet you've heard of the expression, "Whatever doesn't kill you...", or "Suffering is good for the soul". Could these expression represent another way that we deal with our own anxiety after we hear about someone else's tragedy? Could they be another way of blaming the victim? In this episode I explore the Justice Motive.

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Episode 138: Zombies - 6 Reasons Why Are We So...

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files ·

2010/12/23

Have you watched the TV show Walking Dead or ever seen a movie about Zombies (perhaps Zombieland or Dawn of the Dead? What is so fascinating about the undead? Why do many of us get a strange pleasure out of seeing a zombie get killed? In this episode I explore that strange part of ourselves which for some reason seems to enjoy watching the undead get really dead.

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