Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files

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An Interview with Dr. Nancy Haug on her Cannibis Research

Key Ingredients to Significance Quest Theory

Ep 267: Applying an Established Memory Strategy Literacy (and possibly click through on your blog post...)

The printed word has been around for a long time. Bet you thought there was nothing new in how we put words together in a book or website.  Well, guess again. Researchers at Asymmetrica have drawn upon a tried and true memory strategy called...

Ep 266: Productive Confusion with Jeremiah Sullins

We often like it when things are explained to us clearly, but would you believe that sometimes it's better if you're just down-right confused? You could actually learn more if at some point in the learning process you feel like you don't know what's...

Ep: 265: Why Do You REALLY Support That Candidate? The Psychology of Voting Behavior

Why do you vote the way you do? Have you read through all the various candidates position statements, or do you just kinda go with your "gut"? Jeremiah Sullins, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harding University has looked at this question in...

Ep 264: How To Make Study Groups Effective

In a previous episode I talked about the kinds of dynamics that can occur in groups (social loafing, diffusion of responsibility) that can make them ineffective learning experiences as well as just not fun. In this episode I interview Dr. Karen...

Ep 263: Using Psychology in Your Work: Part 2 of My Interview with Richard Millington

How do you "apply a little psychology" to tough jobs like building an online community and to creating a product that people will want to use frequently? In part 2 of my interview with author and Feverbee founder Richard Millington we talk about two...

Ep 262: Using Psychology to Build Active Online Communities: Interview with Richard Millington

What do you do with a background in psychology? A lot of things. How about running an online community? I found Richard Millington, founder of Feverbee, talking about how he applies psychology to his business of helping organizations build strong,...

Ep 261: Demonic Possession or A Lack of Skeptical Thinking?

Is it possible that some people who we think are mentally ill are actually victims of demonic possession?  One psychiatrist says yes.  Another psychiatrist says no - believing this is true is a matter of not carefully thinking about what you...

Ep 261: Which of These Scientific Terms Are You Using Incorrectly?

Do you think you're using the words "control group" correctly? You're probably not.  In fact, you're probably also getting these terms wrong as well: "truth serum", "lie detector", "bystander apathy", "personality type", Oxytocin, "closure" and...

Ep 260: We're All Addicted To Our Phones. How You Can Feel Better About It

Cell phones: they're here and they're not going away. So now it's time to "stop worrying and learn to love them". If you're upset about how addicted teens are to their phones I'll give you a few ideas that, hopefully, will make you feel better. After...

Ep 259: How Could You Have Missed That?

What is change blindness? How could you miss some of the most obvious things that change right in front of you? Millions of people watch a video of kids playing basketball and they miss the fact that a gorilla walks right through the scene.  A...

Ep: 258 - 5 Reasons Why You're Addicted to Your Phone and What to do About it

Why do we find it so hard to put down our phones? I'll give you 5 reasons drawn directly from psychological theories on how we learn, how teenagers are strongly affected by reward and how we are all drawn in by mystery.  There is of course no...

Ep 157: What IS in Baloney Anyway? Let's Find Out Why You Eat What You Eat

I grew up eating baloney without ever giving a thought to where it came from.  But psychology is all reflecting on who you are, why you think the way you do and why you do what you do.  So let's explore our eating behavior: why do we think...

Ep 256 (Audio Version): Study Psychology On The Go with the Clammr App

What if you could study for your psychology test in 24 second sound bytes on your iPhone? Now you can. I recently contacted Parviv - the founder of an app called Clammr. Typically, people use Clammr to stay on top of the news, listen to podcasts or...

Ep 256: Study Psychology On The Go with the Clammr App

What if you could study for your psychology test in 24 second sound bytes on your iPhone? Now you can.  I recently contacted Parviv - the founder of an app called Clammr. Typically, people use Clammr to stay on top of the news, listen to podcasts...

How to Memorize Freud's Stages of Psychosexual Development

Using videoscribe

Ep 255: London Has a Problem and It's a Job for a Psychologist

London needs help and only a person trained in psychology can fix this. There are just too many Londoners using their subway (the "tube") and instead of standing side by side as they go up the escalator, people are doing what they always do - they...