New Books in Psychology
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Joseph E. Davis, "Chemically Imbalanced: Everyd...
Davis offers a field report on how ordinary people dealing with common problems explain their suffering, how they’re increasingly turning to the thin and mechanistic language of the “body/brain,” and what these encounters might tell us....
56 min
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David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehuma...
Smith takes an unflinching look at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human...
63 min
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Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable ...
Chater contends just the opposite: rather than being the plaything of unconscious currents, the brain generates behaviors in the moment based entirely on our past experiences...
95 min
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Katherine Kinzler, "How You Say It: Why You Tal...
Kinzler argues that the way we talk is central to our social identity because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children...
49 min
930
Roger Kennedy, "The Power of Music: Psychoanaly...
Why does music elicit emotions?
33 min
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Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, "NeuroScience Fiction" (...
Quiroga shows how the outlandish premises of many seminal science fiction movies are being made possible by new discoveries and technological advances in neuroscience and related fields.
58 min
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Paul Offit, "Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goe...
Why Do Unnecessary and Often Counter-Productive Medical Interventions Happen So Often?
29 min
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Lisa Bortolotti, "The Epistemic Innocence of Ir...
Bortolotti identifies circumstances under which irrational beliefs are nonetheless beneficial, and thus, as she says, “epistemically innocent"...
66 min
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Mel Schwartz, "The Possibility Principle: How Q...
How would you like to experience your life? It’s an intriguing question, and yet we’ve been conditioned to believe our life visions and goals are often unattainable—until now....
55 min
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György Buzsáki, "The Brain from Inside Out" (Ox...
Buzsáki contrasts what he terms the ‘outside-in’ and ‘inside-out’ perspectives on neuroscientific theory and research methodology.
92 min
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Nick Morgan, "Can You Hear Me? How to Connect w...
How is communicating virtually Is like eating Pringles forever?
41 min
937
Mark Borg, Jr., "Don’t Be a Dick: Change Yourse...
When we are hurt, we hurt others—yet when they hurt us back, we wonder why...
47 min
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Mark Winborn, "Jungian Analysis: Art and Techni...
Engaging with one’s patients is one of the most complicated aspects of being a psychoanalyst...
59 min
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Joy Knoblauch, "The Architecture of Good Behavi...
Knoblauch argues, architects gained new roles as researchers, organizers, and writers while theories of confinement, territory, and surveillance proliferated...
36 min
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John R. Hibbing, "The Securitarian Personality:...
What are the policy implications due to a fundamental distrust and dislike of “outsiders”?
43 min
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Art Markman, "Bring Your Brain to Work: Using C...
What does it take to both fit in and yet also prosper and grow as a person in the workplace?
40 min
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Jeffrey J. Kripal, "The Flip: Epiphanies of Min...
Kripal offers an ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars...
45 min
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Danielle Giffort, "Acid Revival: The Psychedeli...
LSD is on your doctor's menu. At least not yet....
30 min
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Monica Coleman, "Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s...
Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years...
47 min
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Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fra...
Scientists seek the truth, and we rely on them. Should we?
75 min
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Nicole Piemonte, "Afflicted: How Vulnerability ...
Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological intervention keeps medicine from addressing the complex realities of patient suffering...
48 min
947
Cary Cooper, "The Apology Impulse: How the Busi...
What are best-practices for alleviating stress in the workplace?
39 min
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M. C. Stevenson et al. (eds.), "The Legacy of R...
When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater.
31 min
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Telory Arendell, "The Autistic Stage: How Cogni...
Arendell creates a revolutionary fusion of disability studies and performance studies...
52 min
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Nir Bashan, "The Creator Mindset: 92 Tools to U...
Why is the corporate fallback being “analytical” (as opposed to nurturing creativity)?
38 min