Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files

Ep 254: How to Create Great Ways for Seniors to Live

What comes to mind when you think "nursing home"?  Not so good, right?  Let's change that.  Let's use what we learn from psychology to create exciting places for seniors to live.  We've got the tools provided by Maslow's Hierarchy...

Ep 253: How to Prevent Violence in Your Neighborhood

Passengers on an airplane spring to action when a stewardess needs help - but a neighborhood in New York City does very little when a woman is attacked. What's different about these situations? How can we take what we learn from the airplane and...

Ep 252: How Psychology Gets You To Slow Down While Driving

How can we use a little psychology to get you to slow down when you're driving? You'd be surprised.  Very often road signs like "Slow" or a posted speed limit of, say 20 mph does not work.  Drivers go past these signs and nothing bad happens...

Ep 251: How NOT to Get the Holiday Blues

Ep 250: How I Used Snapchat with My Class

Snapchat got a pretty bad rap over the past few years, but did you know that you actually can use this video messaging app in ways that really do help students see the applications of what their teachers are learning in their everyday lives.  In...

Ep 249: How To Build a Psychology App

Ep 248: Guest Host Bo Bennet on Dysrationalia

Ep 247: Optimum Arousal Theory

Ep 246: Why Replications Sometimes Don't Agree with the Original Study

Ep 245: The Reproducibility Project: Incentives Out of Whack

Ep 244: Analyze This - Does the Movie Show What Therapy is Really Like?

If you have not seen the movie Analyze This with Robert DeNiro and Billy Krystal, then you really should. It's not just a funny movie, bit also gets a lot of things about therapy right. So many movies portray psychotherapy so unrealistically but this...

Ep 243: Did Your Therapy Really Work?

Ep 242: The Psychology of Attractiveness: An Interview with Rob Burriss

Ep241:I know What You DID'T Do - the Internet of Things for Dementia and Alzheimer's

Ep 240: How Do You Treat People Who Are Ill?

Ep 239: Racial Divide: Why Does It Happen? How We Can Fix It

Ep: 238: A Robot's Gender, Act Like A Girl and Be A Man

Ep 237: What is Misophonia? More on La Cage, Empathy, and the Milgram Studies

Ep 236: My Cross-Dressing Experience in La Cage Aux Folles

Ep 235: Want to Swap Bodies?

What if you could swap bodies with someone else? What would it be like to be someone of the opposite sex? A different race?  We're getting darn close to being able to do that with new techniques like the Rubber Hand Illusion, the Enfacement...