Dorothy P. Holinger is a psychotherapist and a fellow of the Association of Psychological Science, and she joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the psychological and physiological changes grief causes and the processes that help the bereaved move through it.
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Katherine Kinzler, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, joins us to talk about the biased ways we view dialects and accents.
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Clinical psychologist Molly Howes joins us for a lesson in what it truly takes to make amends.
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Humanistic psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman talks to us about the relationship between victimhood and our sense of how much control we have of our lives.
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Noam Shpancer, a professor of psychology at Otterbein University, joins us to talk specifically about the roadblocks that stand in the way of developing resilience in anxious children – and how to overcome them.
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Daniel Levitin is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University, and he joins us to talk about what he calls human life’s two stages: “healthspan” and “diseasespan,” and explain how brain science can promote the former.
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Catherine A. Sanderson, Manwell Family Professor of Life Sciences at Amherst College, joins us to talk about the psychology of groupthink and how to become a leader.
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John Tierney joins us to talk about searching for the half-full glass when it seems the world wants to smash it altogether.
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Matthew Gutmann, professor of anthropology at Brown University, joins us to talk about the enduring ideas that men are aloof, unable to control primal impulses, and are wired to dominate — and how wrong and harmful they are.
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Bina Venkataraman joins us to talk about why we’re so bad at developing foresight – and what we can do about it.
Read moreGrieving Before Someone’s Gone
Pauline Boss, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, joins us to talk about her work that has helped articulate the lonely and confusing feelings of loss even as someone lives.
Read moreWhy There’s A Massive Shortage Of Psychiatric Hospital Beds
Author Susannah Cahalan joins us to talk about her investigation into a psychology sting operation testing the legitimacy of mental health diagnoses.
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