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Annoyance Part II: Pain and Expectations

2

Annoyance Part I: Predictability and Risk

3

Threatening Punishment (Rebroadcast)

4

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

5

When To Use AI: An Opportunity

6

When To Use AI: The Problem

7

Back To School: Teachers

8

Back To School: Kids and Parents

9

Fahrenheit 451

10

Growth Mindset and Self-blame

11

Growth Mindset and Its Discontents

12

Navigating Uncertainty: Gratitude and The Swartz Value System

13

Managing Discontinuous Predictions

14

How to Disconnect and Why It’s Important (Rebroadcast)

15

Personality Traits, Moderation, and Longevity

16

Protect Your Boredom (Rebroadcast)

17

How Old Do You Feel? (Rebroadcast)

18

Fighting Back

19

Oration Part III: The Conversation

20

Oration Part II: Some Tips

21

Oration Part I: On Slowing Down

22

How We Learn Language

23

Déjà vu

24

Graduation

25

Art Explains his Easter Egg

26

Easter Eggs

27

Schadenfreude

28

The Failure Gap & Its Discontents

29

The Failure Gap

30

The Psychology of Memory

31

Reading vs. Listening (Rebroadcast)

32

Dignity

33

Neuroticism Part III: Support

34

Neuroticism Part II: Social Media and Personality Tests

35

New Research in Neuroticism

36

Compliments

37

Theory

38

Psychological Safety, Safety, and Trust

39

Compensation

40

Desensitization

41

The Psychology of Healthy Ambition

42

Early Specialization?

43

Protecting Your Boredom (Re-broadcast)

44

Stupidity

45

Are Holiday Traditions The Fountain of Youth? (Rebroadcast)

46

Grief, Work and The Gig Economy

47

Grief and Work

48

Tips On Making Decision

49

Complex Decision Making

50

SPECIAL: Celebrating 75 Years of The School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin

51

Overconfidence

52

Bad Luck, Superstitions, and Safety Behaviors

53

Luck

54

The Weighted Vest: an update on popularity

55

The Psychology of Popularity

56

How We Determine Value (Rebroadcast)

57

Mental Health in the Media Storm

58

The Psychology of Personal Resistance

59

The Weather and Social Media Use

60

The Weather and Your Mood

61

Does Money Motivate Discovery?

62

Retroactive Justification

63

Why We Like People Who Hate Everyone

64

The Psychology of Style: Power

65

The Psychology of Style: The Uniform

66

The Psychology of Style

67

The Psychology of Play

68

How to Give a Great Talk (Rebroadcast)

69

Human-Centered Design: Prevention

70

Human-Centered Design: Administration

71

Why We Continue To Threaten Punishment

72

Signal Value and Punishment

73

Threatening Punishment

74

Reasoning From The Desired Conclusion

75

Apathy and Value Systems

76

How To Combat Apathy

77

Learned Apathy

78

Spring

79

Conversation

80

Embodied Emotions (Rebroadcast)

81

Bypassing

82

Meritocracy

83

Giving Up and Agency

84

Giving Up

85

Celebration (Rebroadcast)

86

The Word Love

87

Disappointment: Trauma and Expectations

88

Disappointment: Discipline

89

Dissapointment: Expectations

90

Planning

91

The Psychology of The Artifical

92

Explaining Intuition

93

Educating Intuition

94

Critical Thinking: Emotions

95

Critical Thinking: What is it? What isn’t it?

96

Critical Thinking: Expertise

97

Critical Thinking: The Foundation

98

The Critic

99

Social Decision-Making

100

The Psychology of Uncertainty (Rebroadcast)