New Books in Psychology
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Richard S. Balkin, "Practicing Forgiveness: A P...
In this book the author presents a model for forgiveness that addresses how we either repair relationships when someone has harmed us...
51 min
902
A. Espay and B. Stecher, "Brain Fables: The Hid...
An estimated 80 million people live with a neurodegenerative disease, with this number expected to double by 2050...
76 min
903
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Vers...
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine...
61 min
904
Dealing with the Fs (Fear and Failure)
A Discussion with Alice Connor
57 min
905
Jeremy Snyder, "Exploiting Hope: How the Promis...
Snyder offers an in-depth study of hope's exploitation...
53 min
906
Amy Bucher, "Engaged: Designing for Behavior Ch...
Bucher analyzes both the barriers and levers to achieving behavioral change...
33 min
907
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illus...
Crews challenges us with an extensive psychological profile of the legend here revealed as scam artist....
55 min
908
Rosamond Rhodes, "The Trusted Doctor: Medical E...
Rhodes explicates the sixteen specific duties that doctors take on when they join the profession...
47 min
909
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, "What's Your Problem...
Are you solving the wrong problem?
31 min
910
Gina Rippon, "Gender and our Brains: How New Ne...
Are there any meaningful neurological differences between men and women? And if so, what are they?
36 min
911
Ido Hartogsohn, "American Trip: Set, Setting, a...
Are psychedelics invaluable therapeutic medicines, or dangerously unpredictable drugs that precipitate psychosis?
63 min
912
Pilar Jennings, "To Heal a Wounded Heart: The T...
Early on in her clinical practice, psychoanalyst Pilar Jennings was presented with a particularly difficult case: a six-year-old girl who, traumatized by loss, had stopped speaking...
53 min
913
Beth Kurland, "Dancing on the Tightrope: Transc...
Kurland reveals five common obstacles--habits of the mind that get in the way of living your fullest life--and five tools to transform these obstacles into lasting inner resources for resilience, peace, and joy...
58 min
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Jamie Merisotis, "Human Work in the Age of Smar...
Are robots going to be our overlords? No, we can make them our friends...
32 min
915
Hilary Jacobs Hendel, "It’s Not Always Depressi...
Depression and anxiety are not what you think they are, according to my guest...
38 min
916
Gina Rippon, "Gender and Our Brains: How New Ne...
Rippon presents the latest evidence which finally proves that brains are like mosaics comprised of both male and female components, and that they remain plastic, adapting throughout the course of a person’s life...
64 min
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Steven H. Knoblauch, "Bodies and Social Rhythms...
Psychotherapy tends to be thought of as a verbal enterprise, wherein participants speak and construct meaning through words. However, much goes on between patient and therapist at an embodied, nonverbal level that deserves attention...
36 min
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Marta Zaraska, "Growing Young: How Friendship, ...
Now you may be thinking to yourself, “100? I’m not sure how appealing that is.” In our interview, Zaraska has a surprising response for you...
38 min
919
Li Zhang, "Anxious China: Inner Revolution and ...
Zhang offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times...
73 min
920
Robert Plomin, "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who...
Have you ever felt, “Oh my God, I’m turning into my mother (or father)!” ?
68 min
921
Michael E. McCullough, "The Kindness of Strange...
Why Give a Damn About Strangers?
32 min
922
William P. Seeley, "Attentional Engines: A Perc...
How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it?
62 min
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Kat Arney, "How You Say It: Why You Talk the Wa...
We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender shape our social identities, and thus who we perceive as "like us" or "not like us". But one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak....
48 min
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Tamara McClintock Greenberg, "Treating Complex ...
Relationship problems, struggles with substance abuse, poor memory, and difficulties with emotions are typical symptoms of complex trauma—yet many traumatized individuals have no idea their symptoms share a common cause...
38 min
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Chris Heffer, "All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincer...
Chris Heffer argues that to analyze untruthfulness, we need a framework which goes beyond these two kinds of speech acts, bullshitting and lying...
59 min