Welcome to Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Whether you’re an anger venter or an anger withholder (or something in between), this is a show for you. My guest tonight, therapist Dr. Andrea Brandt, writes that “our culture has a built-in phobia of negative emotions,” […]
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Hidden Influences Driving our Thoughts, Beliefs, & Actions, with Dr. Adam Alter
Welcome to Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. We aren’t the independent thinkers we like to believe ourselves to be. Psychologist and researcher Dr. Adam Alter shows in his fascinating book, “Drunk Tank Pink,” that a host of forces—internal, social, and environmental—drive our thinking and […]
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Dr. Barbara Oakley on Reworking How you Work to be at your Most Productive
Welcome to Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. A very helpful “Best Of” replay tonight. Dr. Barbara Oakley has written an incredibly helpful book on learning how to learn math and science. But, yoohoo, math-loathers, this book—and this show—are about much more than that. Both […]
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Escaping The Mistake-Making Loop, with Dr. Carol Tavris
Welcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. My guest is social psychologist Dr. Carol Tavris, on how to admit mistakes instead of continuing to make them. She talks about common ways we make errors in reasoning and judgment that mess up our lives, and how to […]
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The Science on Giving with Wharton’s Dr. Adam Grant
Welcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Wharton organizational psychologist Dr. Adam Grant talks about his terrific book, “Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success,” (now in paperback) which draws from research to explain what makes giving both powerful and dangerous to people’s achieving their […]
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Stop Letting Fear Ruin Your Relationships, with Dr. Michelle Skeen
Tonight’s show will help you stop pushing potential partners away by exploring why you do that and explaining how you can stop. Psychologist Dr. Michelle Skeen explores how our “core beliefs” can set the stage for our developing unhealthy, fear-based patterns of behavior that keep us from having happy and healthy connections with others. Join […]
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“Mindful Anger” with Dr. Andrea Brandt
Amy Alkon HumanLab—The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Whether you’re an anger venter or an anger withholder (or something in between), this is a show for you. My guest tonight, therapist Dr. Andrea Brandt, writes that “our culture has a built-in phobia of negative emotions,” which isolates us […]
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Depression: An Evolutionary Understanding, by Dr. Jonathan Rottenberg
Amy Alkon HumanLab—The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. We have a depression epidemic in this country, now affecting more than 15% of the population, and it’s striking people at younger and younger ages. It seems clear that our current modes of understanding and treating depression just aren’t working. […]
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Dr. Adam Galinsky: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, & How to Succeed at Each
Amy Alkon HumanLab—The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. On tonight’s show, noted social scientist Dr. Adam Galinsky takes on the long-running debate about whether it’s best to be self-interested or other-interested—a question Galinsky says actually misses the mark. Delving into recent research, Galinsky explains why maximizing our potential […]
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Dr. Art Markman: How to Instill Smart Habits and Make Changes that Stick
Amy Alkon HumanLab—The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Great aspirations…sucky follow-through. This describes life for a lot of us—sometimes, despite our best intentions. Best-selling author and psychologist Art Markman is going to help us out of this rut. His book we’ll be discussing on this show is Smart […]