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The Psychology of People — 52 episodes
Why a Year Felt Like Forever at Seven and Vanishes at Forty
The Secret That Hurts When Nobody Is Asking
The Song That Won’t Leave: Earworms as Mental Habits
The Last Note You Hear: How the Peak-End Rule Means Your Memories Are Lying to You
The Third-Person Trick: Why Talking to Yourself Using Your Own Name Changes Everything
Scared Together: Why Haunted Houses Are Better for Your Relationship Than Date Night
The Hidden Map in Your Nose: How Scientists Finally Cracked the Code of Smell
The Poverty Tax Your Brain Pays: How Scarcity Hijacks Your Mind
Nostalgia as Medicine: The Surprising Psychology of Looking Backward
Your Gut Feeling About Anxiety: How Bacteria in Your Intestines Control Fear in Your Brain
The Willpower Myth: What Really Happens When You're Mentally Exhausted
The Scroll That Feeds Itself: How Passive Social Media Use Creates a Loneliness Loop
Rewriting Nightmares While You Sleep: The Science of Memory Editing
Burnout at 25: Why Gen Z Is Hitting Peak Exhaustion 17 Years Earlier Than Their Parents
Why Your Brain Won't Stop Making the Same Bad Decisions
The Brain's Hidden Fear Engineers: How Astrocytes Rewrote Everything We Know About Memory
Cognitive Surrender: The Psychology of Letting AI Think for You
The Fear of Growing Old: How Aging Anxiety Literally Ages Your Cells
Imposter Syndrome: The Paradox of Competent People Who Can't See Their Own Success
The Ozempic Mind: When Weight Loss Drugs Reshape Your Psychology
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination: Why You Sabotage Your Sleep to Feel Free
The Scroll That Steals: Why Passive Social Media Use Drains Us While Active Engagement Heals
Empathy Atrophy: What AI Companions Are Doing to Human Connection
The Dating Recession: Why Gen Z Is Opting Out of Romance
It's Not Practice That Makes Perfect—It's Patience: How Timing Trumps Repetition in Learning
Your Gut Remembers What You Forgot: How Childhood Stress Programs Lifelong Digestive Problems
Friction-Maxxing: The Psychology Behind 2026's Deliberate Inconvenience Movement
Your Brain on Words: How Language Hijacks the Same Chemicals That Keep You Alive
The Fractured Mind: How Digital Overload Is Creating New Psychological Disorders
Why You Still Believe the Deepfake: The Failure of Transparency Warnings
The Psychopath's Learning Problem: How Different Dark Traits Disrupt the Brain's Ability to Adapt
The Emotional Recession: Why We're Losing Our Ability to Feel Our Way Through Life
FOBO: The New Workplace Anxiety You Haven't Named Yet
The Loneliness Paradox: Why Connection Is Hardest When We Need It Most
Cannabis and the Memories That Never Happened
Psychology's Redemption Arc: How a Crisis Made Science Stronger
The Overconfidence Problem: Why Knowing More Can Make You Less Accurate
Why Your Brain Wants to Believe AI Has Feelings
Wisdom as Moral Compass: Why Creativity Without Wisdom Turns Self-Serving
Nostalgia as Medicine: The Surprising Science of Why Looking Back Helps You Move Forward
Are We Falling in Love with Machines? The Psychology of Human-AI Attachment
Why Some People Can't Stop Making the Same Bad Decisions
One Hundred Deaths an Hour: The Science of Why Loneliness Is Killing Us
The Moral Math We Do Without Knowing It: When Good Deeds License Bad Behavior
The Weekend Sleep-In Defense: Why Catching Up on Sleep Actually Protects Teen Mental Health
Exercise as Antidepressant: What the Largest Review Ever Tells Us
The Negativity Bias: Why One Insult Outweighs a Hundred Compliments
The Social Investment Account: How Lifelong Relationships Slow Biological Aging
The Night Owl Penalty: Why Staying Up Late Hurts Your Mental Health (Even If You're Wired That Way)
The AI Intimacy Trap: When Your Digital Companion Becomes Your Only Friend
The Trust Paradox: Why Believing in Strangers Makes You Happier
Your Brain at Fifteen: The Hidden Synapse Revolution We Never Knew About