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Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us
by Amy Alkon
Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's podcast with the luminaries of behavioral science and psychotherapy.
Episodes
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The Low-Carb, High-Fat Slimdown with Dietary Researcher Dr. Jeff Volek
Why low-carb, high-fat eating is the healthiest kind and how to go about it Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Dietary researcher Dr. Jeff Volek lays out the science behind why you should declare your independence from...
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Debunking Happiness Myths, with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky
HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Psychologist Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, who researchest happiness, explains that we are actually very poor predictors of what makes us happy or unhappy. Of course, it doesn’t help that we’ve been stuck with a...
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Why Men Fight And Why We Like To Watch, with Dr. Jonathan Gottschall
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. On this show, Dr. Jonathan Gottschall talks about his foray from bummed out adjunct English professor to the Mixed Marshall Arts world and his big cage fight -- along with the...
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Low-Carb, High-Fat: Nina Teicholz on why you should eat butter, meat, and cheese
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science...and this week, a top investigative science journalist. Saturated fat is your friend. Really. It turns out everything we've been told about eating fat is wrong. On tonight's show,...
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Dr. Alan Kazdin explains science-based ways to get your kids to behave -- without stress or arguing
Amy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, featuring the luminaries of behavioral science. It turns out some of the ways parents think they’ll get their kids to behave -- by berating, threatening, and punishing them -- are actually the least effective. My guest tonight, Yale University...
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The Myth Of The Lone Genius and The Power Of Partnership, with Joshua Wolf Shenk
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Joshua Wolf Shenk uses science, fascinating true stories of creative partnerships, and historical evidence to dispel the myth of the lone genius and show that creativity is not the…
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The Science of Successful Negotiating, with Harvard's Dr. Michael Wheeler
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. There have been two major schools on negotiating -- Ury, Fisher and Patton's "win-win"/"relationships are everything" approach and Roger Cohen's "nail 'em to the wall"…
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Sex therapist Dr. Brandy Engler on men's and women's unspoken erotic desires
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. What do men want? In bed and out? What do women want? How does this all tie together? (And who’s getting tied up?) These are just a few of the questions I’ll be asking and sex…
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How To Live Happily Single, with Dr. Eric Klinenberg
Amy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. On tonight's show, noted sociologist Dr. Eric Klinenberg discusses why remaining unmarried and living alone have increasing appeal and what the problems of living solo tend to be -- and how we...
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Mark Sanborn: Fred 2.0—how to live, work, and be extraordinary
HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Unlike the guests on almost all of my shows, my guest tonight is actually not a scientist -- he's business consultant, public speaker, and best-selling author Mark Sanborn. But this is the second...
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Dr. Kermyt Anderson on the dad effect - how fatherhood transforms men & children
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. On this show, anthropologist Dr. Kermyt Anderson will lay out what the research says about fathers, stepfathers, grandparents, and how children are transformed by and transform the…
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Evolutionary Rationality: Dr. Vladas Griskevicius on how we make wiser choices
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Decisions that we make that seem stupid can actually make a lot of evolutionary sense, meaning that they would have made sense in the ancestral world; they just don’t make sense in the…
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Flirt Science: Amy Alkon & Dr. Jennifer Verdolin on how to flirt like a master
HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin. Science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin lay out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have…
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Low-carb pioneers Dr. Michael Eades & Dr. Mary Dan Eades
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Low-carb pioneers Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades are my guests this week. Since the 1980s, they have been behind evidence-based ways to eat, and have helped thousands and…
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Science-Based Parenting Techniques, With Dr. Alan Kazdin
Amy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, featuring the luminaries of behavioral science. It turns out some of the ways parents think they’ll get their kids to behave -- by berating, threatening, and punishing them -- are actually the least effective. My guest tonight, Yale University...
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The Science of Self-Motivation with Dr. Edward Deci
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Many people seem to think that the most effective motivation comes from outside of us, that motivating is something one person does to or for another. The studies done by my guest...
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The Neuroscience Of How Touch Drives Emotions & Behavior, with Dr. David Linden
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. On this show, neuroscientist David Linden takes us on a journey from our fingertips to our funparts and explains how huge an influence touch is in every aspect of our lives. He'll lay...
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The Upside Of "Dark Side" Emotions with Dr. Todd Kashdan
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. This is a show on how the negative can be positive -- on how we actually need the emotions that make us uncomfortable. They make us whole, balancing the "positive" emotions. Dr. Todd...
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Ethical Polyamory with Therapist Dossie Easton
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science and psychotherapy. Dossie Easton is co-author of a terrific book, "The Ethical Slut," that I've been recommending for years to people who ask me about sexually open relationships --...
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Low-Carb, High-Fat: Nina Teicholz on why you should eat butter, meat, and cheese
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science...and this week, a top investigative science journalist. Saturated fat is your friend. Really. It turns out everything we've been told about eating fat is wrong. On tonight's show,...
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"Mindful Anger" with Dr. Andrea Brandt
Amy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science and therapy. Whether you're an anger venter or an anger withholder (or something in between), this is a show for you. My guest tonight, therapist Dr. Andrea Brandt, writes that “our culture has…
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Dr. Sam Sommers on the science of context -- for living, loving, working smarter
Welcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Context is everything, Tufts psychology professor Dr. Sam Sommers explains. What we believe, how we behave, and even how we see ourselves shifts more than we understand, depending on the...
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The science on the benefits of giving with Wharton's Dr. Adam Grant
Welcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Wharton organizational psychologist Dr. Adam Grant talks about his terrific book, "Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success," (now in paperback) which draws from research to...
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Debunking Happiness Myths, with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky
HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Psychologist Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, who researchest happiness, explains that we are actually very poor predictors of what makes us happy or unhappy. Of course, it doesn’t help that we’ve been stuck with a...
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Sexual confidence for women, with Dr. Beth Montemurro
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Tonight’s show is about women and sexual power -- why some women feel like passive participants in their sex lives and why and how other women are able to feel comfortable in their...
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Getting The Girl -- The Ev Psych Approach, with Dr. Geoffrey Miller
HumanLab -- The Science Between Us: Amy Alkon interviews the luminaries of behavioral science on how their research can help us have the lives we want. On this show is evolutionary psychologist Dr. Geoffrey Miller, who lays out the realities from science of what women really want and how even a...
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The science-based exercise that requires only 15 minutes a week, with Fred Hahn
It's Amy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us. On this show, exercise trainer and rehab expert Fred Hahn explains why slow-speed strength training, for just a few minutes a week, will make you healthier than that fitness fanatic who spends hours and hours in the gym. (He lays out…
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Mating Intelligence -- with Dr. Glenn Geher and Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science and the therapy world. You can actually improve your mating intelligence -- and your ability to meet, date, and have sex and relationships with partners you want. My guests tonight are...
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The Science of Winning and Losing with Ashley Merryman
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science and the therapy world. Competition can be seen as ugly and divisive but it’s actually an essential element in driving us to do and be our best. My guest tonight, New York Times...
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Mark Sanborn: Fred 2.0—how to live, work, & be extraordinary
HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Unlike the guests on almost all of my shows, my guest tonight is actually not a scientist -- he's business consultant, public speaker, and best-selling author Mark Sanborn. But this is the second...
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Attachment Science: How To Find And Keep Love with Dr. Amir Levine
HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. This show will help you use the new field of adult attachment science to find love -- or to keep and even vastly improve the relationship you have. My guest is neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine,...
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Depression: An Evolutionary Understanding, by Dr. Jonathan Rottenberg
Amy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. We have a depression epidemic in this country, now affecting more than 15% of the population, and it’s striking people at younger and younger ages. It seems clear that our current modes of...
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How Touch Drives Emotions and Behavior, with neuroscientist Dr. David Linden
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. On this show, neuroscientist David Linden takes us on a journey from our fingertips to our funparts and explains how huge an influence touch is in every aspect of our lives. He'll lay...
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Hidden influences driving our thoughts, beliefs, and actions, with Dr Adam Alter
Amy Alkon's HumanLab --The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. We aren’t the independent thinkers we like to believe ourselves to be. Psychologist and researcher Dr. Adam Alter shows in his fascinating book, Drunk Tank Pink, that a host of forces --...
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Sex, what's "normal," and the sexual deviant in all of us, with Dr. Jesse Bering
HumanLab -- The Science Between Us: Amy Alkon interviews the luminaries of behavioral science. Dr. Jesse Bering’s book, “Perv,” is subtitled “The Sexual Deviant in All of Us.” This is a book about weird sex but it’s also a book about all of the ways that even “normal” people fall along the…
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Your child can be more than his test scores, with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman
Welcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Cognitive psychologist Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman lays out why intelligence tests currently used are far too limiting in determining a student’s true potential. Kaufman is a rigorous...
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Stop Self-Deception: Dr. Carol Tavris on how belief we're right leads us astray
Welcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. My guest is social psychologist Dr. Carol Tavris, on how to admit mistakes instead of continuing to make them. She talks about common ways we make errors in reasoning and judgment that...
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Intuition--The Science How It Can Lead Us Astray, with Dr. Christopher Chabris
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. We like to believe our decisions are rationally driven and make sense. But constantly, our perception and decision-making are clouded by illusions we aren't even aware we have. Some…
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The Anti-Male Trend: Dr. Helen Smith on stopping the fashionable male-bashing
Welcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of therapy and behavioral science. This is not just a show for and about men but a show for anyone who cares about equal rights and fairness for all. Tonight's guest is psychologist Dr. Helen Smith talking…
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How To Live Happily Single, with Dr. Eric Klinenberg
Amy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. On tonight's show, noted sociologist Dr. Eric Klinenberg discusses why remaining unmarried and living alone have increasing appeal and what the problems of living solo tend to be -- and how we...
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Risk Intelligence: Dr. Dylan Evans on using science for better decision-making
Amy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Dr. Dylan Evans will be talking about risk intelligence and how you can increase your ability to make wise decisions. Wise decisions are fact-based decisions instead of the superstition- and...
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Addiction Recovery Science: Dr. Stanton Peele on why values matter
Amy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Dr. Stanton Peele points out that most people recover from addictions on their own -- without AA or rehab, and what makes the difference is values, not biology. On tonight’s show, he’ll debunk...
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The Myth Of The Lone Genius and The Power Of Partnership, with Joshua Wolf Shenk
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Joshua Wolf Shenk uses science, fascinating true stories of creative partnerships, and historical evidence to dispel the myth of the lone genius and show that creativity is not the…
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Charisma: How we all can acquire it, with Olivia Fox Cabane
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. My guest is Fortune 500 executive coach and charisma expert Olivia Fox Cabane. Cabane lays out, per research on leadership, why the personal magnetism we call charisma isn’t something…
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Evolutionary Rationality: Dr. Vladas Griskevicius on how we make wiser choices
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Decisions that we make that seem stupid can actually make a lot of evolutionary sense, meaning that they would have made sense in the ancestral world; they just don’t make sense in the…
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Low-carb pioneers Dr. Michael Eades & Dr. Mary Dan Eades
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Low-carb pioneers Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades are my guests this week. Since the 1980s, they have been behind evidence-based ways to eat, and have helped thousands and…
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The Evolutionary Psychology Of Revenge, with Dr. David Barash
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Evolutionary psychologist Dr. David P. Barash has taken on the fascinating subject of revenge: why we seem to need it, the different kinds, and how we might avoid leaping to clobber...
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Dr. Temple Grandin: The autistic brain and its insights for all of us
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. My guest is the inspiring Dr. Temple Grandin, bestselling author, autism activist, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior, discussing her fascinating new book…
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The Evolutionary Truth About Cats & Dogs (& Human Families): Dr Catherine Salmon
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Relationships with family -- and the pets that are part of our families -- are important to our emotional health and can play a significant role in our social success. Tonight,...
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Science-based goal setting and achievement with Harvard's Dr. Francesca Gino
Welcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science. Adorably, we humans see ourselves as rational animals. Research shows us to be anything but. We are swayed in ways we wouldn’t expect in both our decision-making and how well we stick to…
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Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's podcast with the luminaries of behavioral science and psychotherapy.
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