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Episode 12: Is Your Therapist Any Good? How Do You Know?

MichaelApril 25, 2007Therapy28 Comments

This week I discuss the importance of boundaries and guidelines between you and your therapist. These guidelines, set forth by Robert Langs, MD will help you know when your relationship with your therapist is healthy – and when it is not.

Episode 11: What Does Your Bowling Style Say About You?

MichaelApril 18, 2007Learning/Memory7 Comments

In this video episode we look at what your bowling style says about you and how behaviorists can explain your superstitious behavior. By the way, why do you keep pressing that elevator button?

Episode 10: Cognitive Dissonance Strikes Again! What your search on Amazon says about you

MichaelApril 12, 2007Social Psychology4 Comments

Here’s a unique example of cognitive dissonance theory: the information you pay attention to (and ignore) as you search around on Amazon.com How? Cognitive dissonance strikes again!

Episode 9: How Do You Really Raise Self-Esteem?

MichaelMarch 30, 2007Personality20 Comments

How do you really raise self esteem? This week we take a look at all the talk about young people, narcissism and the self esteem movement. Then we answer the question: how do you raise self esteem?

Episode 8: Cognitive Dissonance Theory: Why Contradictions Bother Us So Much

MichaelMarch 20, 2007Social Psychology4 Comments

Every since Leon Festinger gave us the term cognitive dissonance, we’ve been asking questions about contradictions in human behavior. For example, can you be pro choice and against the death penalty, or vice versa?

Episode 7: Blaming the Victim and other Attribution Biases

MichaelMarch 11, 2007Cognition, Intelligence and Language, Social Psychology11 Comments

Blaming the victim – why do we do it? Are rape victims responsible for what happens to them? Are victims of car crashes or other accidents responsible for what happened to them?

Episode 6: The Negative Side of Positive Thinking

MichaelMarch 4, 2007Cognition, Intelligence and Language, Emotion, Therapy2 Comments

What could possibly be wrong with thinking positively? As it turns out, there could be a lot wrong with it. Consider this: have you ever felt badly because you haven’t been thinking positively lately? There’s almost a certain amount of guilt to it. Join me in this episode of The Psych Files where we look at the good and the … Read More

Episode 6: The Negative Side of Positive Thinking

MichaelMarch 3, 2007TherapyLeave a Comment

Most of us believe that we should “think positively”, but there is a negative side to doing so. In this episode of The Psych Files we find out what that dark side is.

Episode #5: In Defense of Defense Mechanisms

MichaelFebruary 25, 2007Personality, Therapy17 Comments

Too many people dismiss Freud because he had a few controversial ideas, but as I try to point out in this podcast, many of Freud’s ideas were very influential and can, with a little attention, be seen in everyday life.

Episode #4: On Birds Flocking and Opposites Attracting: the data on Love

MichaelFebruary 19, 2007Social Psychology2 Comments

Do Birds of a Feather Flock together or do Opposites Attract? Find out which proverb is correct in this episode.

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