Management professor Peter Kim joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how trust is created and, maybe more importantly, how it can be restored.
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You have more power than you know
Social psychologist Vanessa Bohns discusses effective ways to affect other people, learning to speak up and how to rid ourselves of the fear of rejection.
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What if you were assaulted and no one believed you?
Deborah Tuerkheimer is a professor at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and she joins us to discuss who is deemed a credible source, why women aren’t listened to, and who retains power in the legal system.
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They Had No Contact With Al Qaeda But Were Tried Like Terrorists
Filmmaker Dan Reed joins us to discuss the trial of the “Liberty City Seven,” accused of conspiring with al Qaeda to blow up U.S. buildings despite the fact that they didn’t have weapons or communicate with the organization.
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An Immigrant Parent’s American Dream Meets A Child’s Reality
Sabreet Kang Rajeev joins us to talk about understanding her parents’ journey, their hopes for their new life, and connecting those to her own story as a first-generation American.
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We Want What We Want Because Others Want It, Too
Luke Burgis is entrepreneur-in-residence and director of programs at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of America. He joins us to talk about how the competition for the same things draws us together and, later, pushes us apart.
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You’ve Got The Shot. Are You Still Freaking Out?
Dr. Monica Gandhi is professor of medicine and associate division chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF San Francisco General Hospital. She joins us to discuss our behavior as pandemic restrictions are lifted and how information is disseminated and ingested.
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It! (On Nextdoor)
Will Oremus joins us to talk about how as local newspapers die out, the social media site Nextdoor is filling that need.
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Modern Man Vs Cave Man: Why We Might Be Losing That Battle
Christopher Ryan joins us to talk about how our ancestors might not have enjoyed some of the perks of the 21st Century, but they also didn’t have some of the worries that we do today.
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Women Couldn’t Fight (But Went To War Anyway)
Kara Dixon Vuic, professor of war, conflict and society in 20th Century America at TCU, joins us to discuss the roles of young women volunteers through the Vietnam War and beyond. Her new book is called “The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines.”
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All She Wanted Was To Be A Single Black Mother
Nefertiti Austin joins us to talk about how America thinks of single, black motherhood.
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All She Wanted Was To Be A Single Black Mother
Nefertiti Austin joins us to talk about what that painstaking process taught her about how America thinks of single, black motherhood.
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