New Books in Psychology
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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
927
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
928
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
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David Barash, "Threats: Intimidation and Its Di...
What are the similar ways in which animals and people try to intimidate others?
40 min
930
Eric Weiner, "The Geography of Genius: Lessons ...
Living, as we do, in a time in which a U.S. president anoints himself “a very stable genius”, we are particularly appreciative of Eric Weiner, a former foreign correspondent for NPR who writes with humility and humor, as he brings us along with him on his travels to times and places that produced genius...
37 min
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Berit Brogaard, "Hatred: Understanding Our Most...
What is it that makes hatred so addicting?
36 min
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Frans de Waal, "Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotion...
de Waal offers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff....
56 min
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Wendy Wood, "Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Scien...
Wendy has spent much of her career studying what she considers the very building blocks of behavioral change, something we all know as habits...
57 min
934
Timothy R. Clark, "The 4 Stages of Psychologica...
How does any organization invite the true, full participation of its members?
37 min
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Dr. Christopher Harris on Teaching Neuroscience
Harris and his team describe, and present results from, their classroom-based pilots of this new and highly innovative approach to neuroscience and STEM education...
63 min
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Linville Meadows, "A Spiritual Pathway to Recov...
Addiction occurs among physicians at the same rate as in the general population, about 10%. Unlike the general population, however, an intensive rehabilitation program, geared specifically for their profession, vastly improves their chances of finding long-term sobriety...
55 min
937
Diana Greene Foster, "The Turnaway Study: Ten Y...
What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away?
63 min
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Robert Kolker, "Hidden Valley Road: Inside The ...
This is the story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....
43 min
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Sue Stuart-Smith, "The Well-Gardened Mind: The ...
Stuart-Smith, who is a distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener, offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives....
65 min
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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
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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
946
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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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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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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Nick Morgan, "Can You Hear Me? How to Connect w...
How is communicating virtually Is like eating Pringles forever?
41 min
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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