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Psych Insights: From Musical Alarms to Dreaming Pets and Personality...

In this episode of The Psych Files, host Michael Britt explores three fascinating new psychology studies. First, research found that...

BY Michael
March 8, 2024
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Kenneth Carter's book on Sensation Seeking: Buzz

Personality

Ep 340 What’s a High Sensation Seeker?

Do you like to bungee jump? Perhaps you’re into parachuting or wing suit flying? If so, you’re probably a “high...

BY woodrow
December 11, 2019
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Personality Social Psychology Therapy

Ep 328: Authenticity – Is There a Hidden You?

Have you ever wondered if you’re really being true to some inner person of yours? Wondered if there isn’t someone...

BY Michael
July 4, 2019
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I/O Psychology Personality Social Psychology

Ep 325: Love Your Work? Someone Will Take Advantage of...

It’s ingrained in western society that people should find work they really enjoy – work that fulfills a passion. If...

BY Michael
May 13, 2019
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Biopsychology Personality Social Psychology

Ep 308: How to Change the Mind of a Conservative

How do you get someone is is conservative to support climate change? Or stricter controls on guns? There is...

BY Michael
August 9, 2018
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Development Emotion Motivation Personality Social Psychology

Ep 303: Significance Quest Theory: How Do We De-Radicalize People?

We know a lot about why individuals join extremist groups, what can we do about it? How do we...

BY Michael
April 19, 2018
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Motivation Personality Social Psychology

Ep 302: Violent Extremism: What’s the Psychology Behind It?

What draws people toward violent extremist groups? Psychologists have conducted a lot of research to find this out and...

BY Michael
April 5, 2018
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Cognition, Intelligence and Language Personality

Ep 275: What Makes Some People Funny?

You probably know someone who is just plain…well, funny. They may not necessarily even tell that many jokes, but they...

BY Michael
February 23, 2017
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Personality Therapy

Ep 224 (Video): If Freud Worked Tech Support

A humorous way to learn about the Freudian defense mechanisms (actually elaborated by Anna Freud) of Displacement, Denial, Sublimation, Reaction...

BY Michael
August 14, 2014
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Development Mnemonics Personality

Ep 202: How To Memorize Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development

Freud’s stages of Psychosexual Development mnemonics Freud’s Intriguing Development Stages Struggling to remember Sigmund Freud’s intricate stages of psychosexual development...

BY Michael
September 7, 2013
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