This Vassar College psychologist blames adolescent blunders on a surprising cause: over-thinking. She says teenagers have to concentrate to do simple tasks that adults can get through on auto-pilot. 

Ep. 1: Abigail Baird and Troublesome Teens

This New York University psychologist sends infants over cliffs in order to watch them learn locomotion. You will never look at a crawling baby the same way again after hearing this story.

Ep. 2: Karen Adolph and Babies on the Move

That whole idea of an internal clock? It's a lie.

Ep. 3 David Eagleman and Our Perception of Time

When it comes to learning language, kids aren't just copying adults.

Ep. 4 Jean Berko Gleason and How We Learn to Talk

Conventional thinking about brains and blame can be useless in a court of law. 

Ep. 5 David Eagleman and Neurolaw

This Harvard psychologist's work has shown that most of us are racist, sexist, age-ist, class-ist, able-ist, and so on. Basically we're pre-destined to stereotype others. But, she says, that doesn't mean we can't retrain our brains to move past prejudices.

A longer version of this interview appeared in Episode 7 of The Organist podcast: https://soundcloud.com/the-organist/mahzarin-banaji-ep-7-the 

Ep. 6 Mahzarin Banaji and Unconscious Biases

When you see someone with a frightened face, it's hard to look away. Charles Nelson looks at when, and why, we get this attraction to fear.

Ep. 7 Charles Nelson and Fear

What's really going on in the minds of synesthetes? 

Ep. 8 David Eagleman and Synesthesia

What's really important when it comes to raising good readers? This Harvard psychologist has found parents matter even more than you might think.


Ep. 9 Catherine Snow and the Development of Language

This neuroeconomist thinks he's found a reason why we do nice things for other people. 

Bonus Episode: Paul Zak and the Wonders of Oxytocin

Neuroscientist David Eagleman is creating a new device to help blind people "see." And it looks a lot like an an athletic vest. 

Ep. 10: David Eagleman and Sensory Substitution

The way we’ve studied anxiety has been more helpful to rats in mazes than humans in stressful situations.

Ep. 11  Joseph LeDoux And Anxiety

Hunter College cognitive psychologist Diana Reiss describes her search for the Rosetta Stone of dolphin language. 

Ep. 12 Diana Reiss And Dolphin Consciousness

Modern psychology is just now coming to grips with our subconscious thoughts -- and finding there's not a lot we can do to control them.

Ep. 13 Anthony Greenwald And The Implicit Revolution

The author of "Mastermind" explains how to better use your brain. 

Ep. 14 Maria Konnikova And Mindfulness

Ep. 15 David Eagleman And Our Perception of Time (rebroadcast)

Conventional thinking about brains, and blame, can be useless in a court of law.

Ep. 16 David Eagleman And Neurolaw (rebroadcast)

What's really going on in the minds of synesthetes?

Ep. 17 David Eagleman And Synesthesia (rebroadcast)

Neuroscientist David Eagleman is creating a new device to help blind people "see." And it looks a lot like an an athletic vest.

Ep. 18 David Eagleman And Sensory Substitution (rebroadcast)

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde reveal what magicians can teach neuroscientists.

Ep.19 Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde and Neuromagic

Heather Berlin's a neuroscientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and she has a new theory for the causes behind OCD.

Ep. 20 Heather Berlin and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Justin Hulbert's found that by suppressing bad memories we may compromise our ability to form new memories. 

Ep. 21 Justin Hulbert and Memory Suppression

This neuroscientist thinks Western science is missing the mark by studying the markers of consciousness, instead of the thing itself.

Ep. 22 Zoran Josipovic and Meditation

A neuroscientist makes an unsettling discovery.

Ep. 23 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 1

How to stop a psychopath.

Hint: You've got to start early.

Ep. 24 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 2

Can a borderline psychopath rehabilitate himself?

Ep. 25 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 3

How to spot the psychopaths in our political history, and our current election. 

Ep. 26 Jim Fallon and the Psychopaths, Part 4

This Yale researcher wants to take her field in a completely new direction.

Ep. 27 Joy Hirsch and the Future of Neuroscience

Update

From The Mind Science Foundation (mindscience.org), a little show that asks big questions about our minds, with help from the boldest scientists in neuroscience and psychology. Produced and hosted by public radio reporter Audrey Quinn. 

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