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Guest: Jud Brewer
Listen to the Hidden Brain podcast Just one more chip: A look at the psychology of cravings, and provocative ideas to get a hold of them. Based on our interview with Jud Brewer. FIND HIDDEN BRAIN ONLINE Bluesky
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Listen to the Hidden Brain podcast What is the best way to raise resilient children? In this video, we explore what three psychologists discovered when they studied how children grow strong: why Peter Gray of Boston College believes kids need time without adults to build the belief that they can solve their own problems, how Alison Gopnik of UC Berkeley found that showing a child "the right way" can quietly shut down their curiosity, and why Robyn Fivush of Emory University…
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Listen to the Hidden Brain podcast What if your emotions aren't reactions to the world, but your brain's best guesses about it? In this video, we explore what psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor at Northeastern University and author of How Emotions Are Made, discovered when she studied how the brain builds our feelings: why the flushed cheeks and racing heart she read as romantic attraction turned out to be the flu, how context shapes the emotions we see in other…
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Listen to the Hidden Brain podcast What if depression was never a malfunction, but a signal your body was designed to send? In this video, we explore what psychologist Jonathan Rottenberg, a professor at Cornell University and author of The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic, calls the defect model of depression: why the "chemical imbalance" explanation may rest on far less evidence than we've been told, and how low mood might work the same way fever…
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Listen to the Hidden Brain podcast What if the reason success doesn't feel like success has nothing to do with what you've achieved, and everything to do with how your mind is wired?
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Listen to the Hidden Brain podcast What if the thing pulling your attention away isn't your phone at all, but something happening inside your own mind? In this video, we explore what psychologist Gloria Mark discovered when she studied our capacity for focus: why the average person's attention on any single screen has dropped to just 47 seconds, what really happens when a doctor books a round-trip flight just to escape Wi-Fi long enough to write a grant, and why, even when…
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Listen to the Hidden Brain podcast What if the voice that wakes you up at 3am is also the reason you can think clearly at all? In this video, we explore what psychologist Ethan Kross discovered when he studied our inner voice: why one of the most reassuring men on television privately wrestled with the very same doubt, what really happened when a neuroscientist's stroke switched her inner voice off completely, and how watching your own thoughts from a distance, like they…
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