Category Archives: Research Psych
#294 – The Dark Side of Seligman’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness with Stephen Soldz PhD
February 16, 2012
#277 – At The 2nd World Congress on Positive Psychology: Part 2 with Dr. Ed Diener & Others
September 3, 2011
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#276 – At The Second World Congress on Positive Psychology: Part 1 with Dr. Martin Seligman & Others
August 27, 2011
#259 – The Slippery Slope of Reality (2) with Jerry Trumbule
February 26, 2011
Jerry Tumbule, M.S, ABD and I have yet another one of our wide ranging conversations. This is the second of three recent conversations. This time we focus on the work of Stuart Hameroff, M.D. and Robert Lanza, M.D. Robert Lanza, M.D. is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. He is currently Chief [...]
#257 – The Slippery Slope of Reality (1) with Jerry Trumbule
February 12, 2011
Jerry Tumbule, M.S, ABD and I have another one of our wide ranging conversations. As usual, it is both personal and psychological. Among the topics we discuss in this first episode of a three-part series is an article that appeared in the December 13, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, titled
#253 – Creativity and The Brain with Shelly Carson, PhD
December 10, 2010
Shelley Carson, PhD is a researcher and instructor of creativity, psychopathology and resilience. She is the author of Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity and Innovation in Your Life (Jossey-Bass/Wiley). Based on scientific findings from studies involving brain imaging, brain injury cases, neuropsychological testing and interviews with hundreds of highly creative individuals, [...]
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October 16, 2010
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, he teaches at universities and meditation centers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His work has been featured on the BBC and in Consumer Reports Health, U.S. News and World Report, [...]
#248 – Sound Sleep, Sound Mind with Barry Krakow, MD
October 1, 2010
Barry Krakow, MD is a board certified internist and sleep disorders specialist who has spent over 30 years in medicine in the fields of internal, emergency, addiction and sleep medicine. He has conducted more than two decades of research in the treatment of chronic nightmares and disturbing dreams at the University of New Mexico School [...]
#246 – Exploring Savant Syndrome with Darold Treffert, MD
September 16, 2010
Darold Treffert, M.D., a Wisconsin psychiatrist, has been studying Savant Syndrome for over 40 years. His most recent publication, Islands of Genius: The Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired and Sudden Savant, was published by Jessica Kingsley, Inc. in April 2010 in both the United States and England. His earlier book, Extraordinary People, was the [...]
#245 – The Art of Choosing with Sheena Iyengar
September 4, 2010
Sheena Iyengar, Ph.D. is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology, and the Research Director at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business. Sheena’s primary research interest is how people perceive and respond to choice, and for her research on this [...]
#243 – Exploring Behavioral Economics with Dan Ariely
August 6, 2010
Dan Ariely, Ph.D. is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, where he holds appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the School of Medicine, and the department of Economics. He is also a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. In addition, [...]
#240 – Unconscious Mental Factors in HIV Infection with Peter B. Todd
June 25, 2010
Peter B. Todd B.A. (Honors, Psychology), MAPS graduated from Sydney University in 1968, becoming a member of the Australian Psychological Society in 1975. He started to work as a post graduate research psychologist at the School of Surgery, St. George Hospital (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) after his undergraduate degree in 1973. This [...]
#236 – The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Therapies with Jonathan Shedler
May 7, 2010
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#228 – Positive Psychology Coaching with John Schinnerer
January 15, 2010
John Schinnerer, Ph.D. is in private practice helping individuals learn happiness by mitigating destructive emotions and fostering constructive emotions. Using positive psychology, he helps clients achieve happy, thriving, meaningful lives.
#217 – Happiness and Health with Dacher Keltner
August 28, 2009
Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. received his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UC Santa Barbara in 1984 and his PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 1989. After a post-doc at UCSF with Paul Ekman, in 1992 he took his first academic job, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then returned to Berkeley’s Psychology Department [...]
#197 – Scientific Parapsychology with Dean Radin
February 27, 2009
Dean Radin, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and has served as president of the American Parapsychological Association four times. A little over a year ago, he gave a presentation at Google, which can be found on YouTube, and it has become the most discussed talk of the 1,031 talks [...]
#194 – Life Among The Piraha – An Amazonian Psychology with Daniel Everett
February 6, 2009
Dan Everett, Ph.D. is author of Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazon Jungle, as well as Professor of Linguistics, Anthropology, and Biological Sciences and Chairman of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University in Normal, IL.
#188 – Technology and The Evolving Brain with Gary Small, M.D.
December 26, 2008
Gary Small, M.D. is co-author (along with his wife, Gigi Vorgan) of the 2008 book, iBrain: Surviving The Technological Alteration of The Modern Mind. In addition, Dr. Small is a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute and directs the Memory and Aging Research Center and the UCLA Center on Aging.
#187 – Happy At Last with Richard O’Connor, Ph.D.
December 18, 2008
Richard O’Connor, MSW, Ph.D. is the author of Happy At Last: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Finding Joy. His earlier books are Undoing Depression and Undoing Perpetual Stress. For fourteen years he was executive director of the Northwest Center for Family Service and Mental Health, a private, nonprofit mental health clinic serving Litchfield County, Connecticut, [...]
#185 – At The SF Happiness and Its Causes Conference
December 5, 2008
We deviate from our regular format of interviewing a single person. Last week I attended a four-day conference in San Francisco on Happiness and It’s Causes. The conference was sponsored by a Tibetan Buddhist organization to raise money for an initiative known as the
