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All Episodes

Under the Cortex — 100 episodes

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1

How Our Brains Grasp Faces

2

The Cost of Efficiency: Exploring Doubling-Back Aversion

3

Time Warped: How Repetition Distorts Our Sense of Duration

4

Two Maps in the Mind: How the Brain Stores What We Know About Others

5

Bridging Research and Editorial Vision: A Conversation with Arturo Hernandez

6

Real-Time Research: How the Experience Sampling Method Is Changing Psychology

7

Why Do Emotions Hijack Our Decisions? The Neuroscience of Impulsivity

8

Beyond Words: Why TalkBank is Crucial for Spoken Language Research

9

Ensuring Research Validity: A Checklist for Stronger Science

10

Young Minds, Smart Strategies: How Children Decide When to Use External Memory Aids

11

Understanding Addiction: A General Liability or Unique Disorders?

12

Addressing Selection Bias in Disparities Research

13

Beyond Focus: How Attention Shapes Learning Differently for Children and Adults

14

Dosage Dilemma: Unpacking Meditation App Science

15

The Hidden Cost of Caregiving: Stress, Anxiety and Coping Mechanisms

16

2024 in Review: 10 Most Popular Articles from APS Journals

17

Building Bridges: Exploring Cooperation in Children

18

Heart Rates and Step Counts: A Novel Approach to Eating Disorder Care

19

Midlife-Onset Alcohol Dependence: Causes and Consequences

20

Too Many Connections? How Aging Impacts Memory and Recall

21

Green Actions, Brighter Lives: Enhancing Well-Being Through Environmental Action

22

A New Approach to Understanding Psychopathology: Insights from the HiTOP Model

23

Navigating Divisive Conversations: Why We Underestimate the Benefits

24

Friendship and Diversity: A Path to Stronger Communities?

25

What Type of Templates Do We Use for Visual Processing? Caricatures Might Be the Answer

26

The Integrity of Psychological Research: Uncovering Statistical Reporting Inconsistencies

27

The Benefits of Everyday Math for Kids

28

Racial Disparities in Drug Intervention: Culturally Inclusive Approaches

29

When Versus Whether: Gender Differences in Leadership

30

Tools to Bolster Executive Function Skills in Kids

31

Navigating Regret in Decision-Making

32

Is Everyone Out to Get Me? Paranoia in Social Interactions

33

Allergies or Sickness? Unraveling the Mystery of Concealing Infectious Diseases

34

Desire Dynamics: Navigating Intimacy and Attraction in Relationships

35

Shaping Kinder Kids Through Parental Example

36

Parental Engagement Enhances Children’s Therapy Experience and Outcomes

37

Twisted Tales: Unraveling the Surprising Benefits of Irony

38

What Comes Next? The Joy of Anticipating Melodies

39

Couples Who Laugh Together, Stay Together

40

Community Engagement in Psychological Research

41

Information Avoidance in the Modern Age

42

Linking Developmental Delays and Parenting Strategies With Inclusivity in Mind

43

Is Our Early Attachment Our Destiny? Finding the Link Between Attachment Patterns and Personality Disorders

44

Guilty as Charged: How We Contribute to Polarizing Content on Social Media

45

Getting Your Research Published: Insights on Academic Publishing with Simine Vazire

46

Do Risky Drinkers Think Differently? Insights From Cognitive Experiments

47

Do Lockdown Drills Create Anxiety? New Research Says No

48

Cautionary Notes: The Science of Trigger Warnings

49

Feeling Young at Heart Comes With Well-Being Benefits

50

The Tale of Two Cities: Water Access Influences Human Decision Making

51

Loneliness Across the Globe: A Life-Span Approach

52

Wendy Wood: It’s Time We Trained Students for Diverse Careers in Psychological Science

53

Best Of: Revisiting Episodes on the Myers-Briggs Test, the Grieving Brain, and More

54

Understanding Childhood Adversity Across Time and Cultures

55

Nobody’s Fool: How to Avoid Getting Taken In

56

Carl Hart on Clinicians’ Bias Toward Drug Use

57

Bringing Contexts In, Taking Racism Out: How to Improve Cognitive Psychology

58

Endless Love: You’ve Got Ideas About Consensual Nonmonogamy. They’re Probably Wrong

59

Psychology’s Role in the Criminalization of Blackness

60

Silver Linings in the Demographic Revolution

61

Industrialized Cheating in Academic Publishing: How to Fight “Paper Mills”

62

Exploration vs. Exploitation: Adults Are Learning (Once Again) From Children

63

Lived Experiences Can Be a Strength. So Why the Bias Against “Me-Search”?

64

Special Episode II: APS 2023 Spence Awardees on Sharing Minds, the Development of Learning, and Implicit Bias

65

Special Episode I: APS 2023 Spence Awardees on Fresh Starts, Time Perception, and the Well-being of Black Families

66

Is Cheating Just a Symptom (and Not the Cause) of Declining Relationships?

67

Stop Oversimplifying Mental Health Diagnoses

68

A Very Human Answer to One of AI’s Deepest Dilemmas

69

Top 10 Articles of 2022: Opinionated Fetuses! Cheating Spouses! And Much More

70

What You Know Changes What and How You See

71

Children, Creativity, and the Real Key to Intelligence

72

Failure and Flourishing

73

Why Is Everyone Else Having More Fun?

74

How Do We Know Ourselves?

75

What Music Does to Us

76

Exploration and Risk-Taking: Hallmarks of Adolescence That Increase Well-Being

77

Talking With Birds: The Fascinating World of Avian Intelligence

78

The September Collection: New Technology Can Be Scary, Why to Stop Worrying and Love the Eco-Apocalypse, and Much More

79

Attitudes Improve for Sex and Race. Disability and Age? Not So Much

80

Self-Injury: Can the Internet Play a Positive Role?

81

Love Lets Us Learn: Psychological Science Makes the Case for Policies That Help Children

82

Underweight and Overexposed: How Women’s Perceptions of Thinness Are Distorted

83

The August Collection: Attitude Changes, Cognition in Lemurs, and Much More

84

A Paradox in the Field: Mental-Health Disorders Among Psychologists

85

The July Collection: Five Research Briefs

86

The New Riddle of the Sphinx: Life History and Psychological Science

87

I Don’t Care If It’s Fake News, I Believe It

88

2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Brian Anderson and Habit-Reinforcing Behavior

89

2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Patricia Lockwood and the Foundations of Social Learning

90

Delusion and the Uses of Not Being Rational

91

2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Neil Lewis Jr. on the Unequal Nature of Society

92

2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Human to Nonhuman Interactions with Kai Chi (Sam) Yam

93

Traffic Stops and Race: Police Conduct May Bend to Local Biases

94

2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Jason Okonofua and the Power of Empathy

95

2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Investigating Complex Brain Processes

96

2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: How People Manage Their Emotions

97

Mini Episode: How We Internalize Disorders

98

Constellations Across Cultures: How Our Visual Systems Pick Out Patterns in the Night Sky

99

Freedom vs Security: Can We Find the Right Balance?

100

Debunking Four Common Myths of Psychological Science