Podcast appearances and mentions of John Bargh

Aerial topdresser John Bargh is preparing for another season up in the air. He's spent nearly five decades in the skies spreading fert on hill country farms. You can read more about John's lengthy flying career here.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

If you've ever wondered what puts the “Groove” in Behavioral Grooves, this episode has the answer! We're diving headfirst into the mesmerizing world of music with the legendary John Bargh to tackle the ultimate question: If you could sit in on the recording of any album in history, which one would you choose? From the legendary sessions at Island Records to the eternal brilliance of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, we explore the artistry, spontaneity, and sheer magic behind music's most iconic moments. Whether you're a die-hard classic rock fan or just curious about the creative process, this episode will take you straight to the heart of music's golden age. ©2025 Behavioral Grooves We Made a Playlist for You! Check out all the artists we discussed this week, here  

In this enlightening episode of the MindHack Podcast, we delve into the fascinating world of the unconscious mind with Dr. John Bargh, a leading expert and professor of psychology at Yale University. Why do we make the decisions we do? What influences our choices beyond our conscious awareness? Dr. Bargh takes us on a journey through the unseen forces that shape our everyday actions and decisions.From the subtle impacts of environmental cues to the profound effects of our internal instincts, this conversation explores how our gut feelings and unconscious processes guide us more than we might realize. Dr. Bargh shares insights from his groundbreaking research and his acclaimed book, "Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do," providing practical advice on how to harness the power of our subconscious for better decision-making and improved well-being.About this Guest:WebsiteACME Lab YaleBefore You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do by Dr. John BarghOther books herePeople & Other Mentions:Professor Michael S. GazzanigaRoger Sperry's Split Brain ExperimentsJoseph E. LeDouxAntonio DamasioDescartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio DamasioWilliam JamesThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanAmos TverskyCognitive Reflection Test (CRT) | Shane FrederickDick ButkusNewsletters | Superhuman | Neuron | TLDR LLMs | ChatGPT | Claude AI | Llama AI ELIZA ChatbotThe Turing TestJeffrey GrayHannah ArendtThe Life of the Mind: The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think by Hannah ArendtTimothy WilsonAmbady and RosenthalLove is BlindUmax App

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Key takeaways from our EA and alignment research surveys, published by Cameron Berg on May 3, 2024 on LessWrong. Many thanks to Spencer Greenberg, Lucius Caviola, Josh Lewis, John Bargh, Ben Pace, Diogo de Lucena, and Philip Gubbins for their valuable ideas and feedback at each stage of this project - as well as the ~375 EAs + alignment researchers who provided the data that made this project possible. Background Last month, AE Studio launched two surveys: one for alignment researchers, and another for the broader EA community. We got some surprisingly interesting results, and we're excited to share them here. We set out to better explore and compare various population-level dynamics within and across both groups. We examined everything from demographics and personality traits to community views on specific EA/alignment-related topics. We took on this project because it seemed to be largely unexplored and rife with potentially-very-high-value insights. In this post, we'll present what we think are the most important findings from this project. Meanwhile, we're also sharing and publicly releasing a tool we built for analyzing both datasets. The tool has some handy features, including customizable filtering of the datasets, distribution comparisons within and across the datasets, automatic classification/regression experiments, LLM-powered custom queries, and more. We're excited for the wider community to use the tool to explore these questions further in whatever manner they desire. There are many open questions we haven't tackled here related to the current psychological and intellectual make-up of both communities that we hope others will leverage the dataset to explore further. (Note: if you want to see all results, navigate to the tool, select the analysis type of interest, and click 'Select All.' If you have additional questions not covered by the existing analyses, the GPT-4 integration at the bottom of the page should ideally help answer them. The code running the tool and the raw anonymized data are both also publicly available.) We incentivized participation by offering to donate $40 per eligible[1] respondent - strong participation in both surveys enabled us to donate over $10,000 to both AI safety orgs as well as a number of different high impact organizations (see here[2] for the exact breakdown across the two surveys). Thanks again to all of those who participated in both surveys! Three miscellaneous points on the goals and structure of this post before diving in: 1. Our goal here is to share the most impactful takeaways rather than simply regurgitating every conceivable result. This is largely why we are also releasing the data analysis tool, where anyone interested can explore the dataset and the results at whatever level of detail they please. 2. This post collectively represents what we at AE found to be the most relevant and interesting findings from these experiments. We sorted the TL;DR below by perceived importance of findings. We are personally excited about pursuing neglected approaches to alignment, but we have attempted to be as deliberate as possible throughout this write-up in striking the balance between presenting the results as straightforwardly as possible and sharing our views about implications of certain results where we thought it was appropriate. 3. This project was descriptive and exploratory in nature. Our goal was to cast a wide psychometric net in order to get a broad sense of the psychological and intellectual make-up of both communities. We used standard frequentist statistical analyses to probe for significance where appropriate, but we definitely still think it is important for ourselves and others to perform follow-up experiments to those presented here with a more tightly controlled scope to replicate and further sharpen t...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Key takeaways from our EA and alignment research surveys, published by Cameron Berg on May 3, 2024 on LessWrong. Many thanks to Spencer Greenberg, Lucius Caviola, Josh Lewis, John Bargh, Ben Pace, Diogo de Lucena, and Philip Gubbins for their valuable ideas and feedback at each stage of this project - as well as the ~375 EAs + alignment researchers who provided the data that made this project possible. Background Last month, AE Studio launched two surveys: one for alignment researchers, and another for the broader EA community. We got some surprisingly interesting results, and we're excited to share them here. We set out to better explore and compare various population-level dynamics within and across both groups. We examined everything from demographics and personality traits to community views on specific EA/alignment-related topics. We took on this project because it seemed to be largely unexplored and rife with potentially-very-high-value insights. In this post, we'll present what we think are the most important findings from this project. Meanwhile, we're also sharing and publicly releasing a tool we built for analyzing both datasets. The tool has some handy features, including customizable filtering of the datasets, distribution comparisons within and across the datasets, automatic classification/regression experiments, LLM-powered custom queries, and more. We're excited for the wider community to use the tool to explore these questions further in whatever manner they desire. There are many open questions we haven't tackled here related to the current psychological and intellectual make-up of both communities that we hope others will leverage the dataset to explore further. (Note: if you want to see all results, navigate to the tool, select the analysis type of interest, and click 'Select All.' If you have additional questions not covered by the existing analyses, the GPT-4 integration at the bottom of the page should ideally help answer them. The code running the tool and the raw anonymized data are both also publicly available.) We incentivized participation by offering to donate $40 per eligible[1] respondent - strong participation in both surveys enabled us to donate over $10,000 to both AI safety orgs as well as a number of different high impact organizations (see here[2] for the exact breakdown across the two surveys). Thanks again to all of those who participated in both surveys! Three miscellaneous points on the goals and structure of this post before diving in: 1. Our goal here is to share the most impactful takeaways rather than simply regurgitating every conceivable result. This is largely why we are also releasing the data analysis tool, where anyone interested can explore the dataset and the results at whatever level of detail they please. 2. This post collectively represents what we at AE found to be the most relevant and interesting findings from these experiments. We sorted the TL;DR below by perceived importance of findings. We are personally excited about pursuing neglected approaches to alignment, but we have attempted to be as deliberate as possible throughout this write-up in striking the balance between presenting the results as straightforwardly as possible and sharing our views about implications of certain results where we thought it was appropriate. 3. This project was descriptive and exploratory in nature. Our goal was to cast a wide psychometric net in order to get a broad sense of the psychological and intellectual make-up of both communities. We used standard frequentist statistical analyses to probe for significance where appropriate, but we definitely still think it is important for ourselves and others to perform follow-up experiments to those presented here with a more tightly controlled scope to replicate and further sharpen t...

Why do we mirror other people's accents? Does DJ Khaled get tired of winning? And also: life is good — so why aren't you happy? SOURCES:Albert Bandura, professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University.John Bargh, professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University.Tanya Chartrand, professor of marketing at Duke University.Clay Cockrell, psychotherapist and founder of Walk and Talk Therapy.Iain Couzin, director of the department of collective behavior at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.William Irvine, professor of philosophy at Wright State University.Daniel Kahneman, professor emeritus of psychology at Princeton University.Stephen Kosslyn, professor emeritus of psychology at Harvard University.Cristine Legare, professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.Kevin Ochsner, professor of psychology at Columbia University.Amos Tversky, professor of psychology at Stanford University. RESOURCES:"How to Escape the Hedonic Treadmill and Be Happier," by Anna Katharina Schaffner (Positive Psychology, 2016).“Revealing the Hidden Networks of Interaction in Mobile Animal Groups Allows Prediction of Complex Behavioral Contagion,” by Sara Brin Rosenthal, Colin R. Twomey, Andrew T. Hartnett, Hai Shan Wu, and Iain Couzin (PNAS, 2015).“A Calm Look at the Most Hyped Concept in Neuroscience — Mirror Neurons,” by Christian Jarrett (WIRED, 2013).“The Chameleon Effect: The Perception–Behavior Link and Social Interaction,” by Tanya Chartrand and John Bargh (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999).“Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk,” by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (The Econometric Society, 1979).“Transmission of Aggression Through Imitation of Aggressive Models,” by Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross, and Sheila A. Ross (Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1961). EXTRAS:"Why Are Rich Countries So Unhappy?" by No Stupid Questions (2022)."Do You Mind if I Borrow Your Personality?" by No Stupid Questions (2022).“Episode 2: The Unhappy Millionaire,” by The Happiness Lab (2019).The Happiness Lab.

“The primary source of unconscious priming…is your conscious experience.” Our consciousness is where we bring everything together, where we integrate and form a rich integration of our experience. This result is that this experience gets spread out to all the processes of the mind which is pivotal to how priming, an unconscious effect, actually works. John Bargh is a researcher and professor at Yale University and is probably the leading researcher on behavioral priming and has been studying this topic for almost 40 years. Not only that but he is a long term friend of Behavioral Grooves Podcast. In this episode with John, we explore with him both the past and future of priming as well as some of the controversies surrounding it.  “The more important the goal, the more primable it is”   Topics (4:36) Welcome and speed round questions. (7:50) Why priming gets a bad rap. (13:01) What exactly is a prime? (16:17) Where does future research in priming need to go? (19:46) How does priming differ from expectation theory and the placebo effect? (22:33) How is framing not priming? (24:07) What is the summation of experience? (32:02) The stupid reason John went into social psychology. (40:51) What the meta analysis studies on priming have found. (45:50) Science communication: how to tell the good science from the bad. (49:03) The importance of podcasting to bridge the gap between science and people. (1:00:03) Grooving session with Tim and Kurt on priming.    © 2022 Behavioral Grooves   Links John Bargh book “Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”: https://amzn.to/3yUHka8 Episode 248, Do We Control Situations or Do Situations Control Us? With John Bargh: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/control-situations-with-john-bargh/  Episode 155, John Bargh: Dante, Coffee and the Unconscious Mind: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/john-bargh-unconscious-mind/  Global Workspace Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_workspace_theory  Bargh JA. “What have we been priming all these years? On the development, mechanisms, and ecology of nonconscious social behavior.” Eur J Soc Psychol. 2006: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19844598/  Shinobu Kitayama, University of Michigan: https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/kitayama.html  Daphna Oyserman, University of Southern California: https://dornsife.usc.edu/daphna-oyserman  Paul J. Reber, Northwestern University: https://www.reberlab.psych.northwestern.edu/people/paul/  Daniel Schacter, “Amnesia observed: Remembering and forgetting in a natural environment” (1983): https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1983-26025-001  Parafoveal Processing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/parafoveal-processing  Jeffrey W. Sherman (2017) “A Final Word on Train Wrecks”: https://psychology.ucdavis.edu/people/sherm/cv  Evan Weingarten, Qijia Chen, Maxwell McAdams, Jessica Yi, Justin Hepler, Dolores Albarracin (2016) “On Priming Action: Conclusions from a Meta-Analysis of the Behavioral Effects of Incidentally-Presented Words”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27957520/  Xiao Chen, Gary P. Latham, Ronald F. Piccolo, Guy Itzchakov (2019) “An Enumerative Review and a Meta-Analysis of Primed Goal Effects on Organizational Behavior”: https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/apps.12239  Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D. Vohs (2003): “Sobriety Epidemic Endangers Nation's Well-Being”: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/sobriety-epidemic-endangers-nations-well-being  Episode 147, Gary Latham, PhD: Goal Setting, Prompts, Priming, and Skepticism: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/gary-latham-goal-setting-prompts/     Musical Links  AC/DC “Hells Bells”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etAIpkdhU9Q  Psychedelic Porn Crumpets “Acid Dent”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuQyIQ0NA0k  acid dad “Searchin'”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzSwzUAqVWw  The Orb “Blue Room”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ8nTbS9mOE  Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg  Pearl Jam “Black”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgaRVvAKoqQ  The Who “Who You Are”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbBDrceCy8  Led Zeppelin “All My Love”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXC87EABywo  Dead Pirates “Alexis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9FsgAyZop4  Hadestown Broadway Show “Way Down Hadestown”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJIc3RtJK7U 

Adam Hahn spends a lot of time thinking about how well people know their own biases. Sure, people often refer to "implicit bias" as social biases that exist unconsciously. But do they really? How strongly can we claim we're unaware of these attitudes and is there any reason to think people can readily tell you what their gut reactions are when they encounter people of different racial, gender, and religious identities? Adam's a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. A few things that come up in our conversation:In the intro, I talk about the work of Russ Fazio (e.g., Fazio et al., 1986) and John Bargh (e.g., Bargh et al., 1992) looking into the automatic activation of attitudes. I also highlight Greenwald and Banaji's (1995) presentation of "implicit social cognition." (The quote about using "implicit" to refer to processes outside of awareness is from a 2001 chapter by Banaji and Tesser.) Also, big tip of the hat to Adam Hahn for helping me organize the structure of the introduction.You can take the Implicit Association Test (IAT) at "Project Implicit"Whether implicit bias is unconscious depends on how you define "unconscious" (Hahn & Goedderz, 2020)People can predict their scores on the IAT (Hahn et al., 2014; Hahn & Gawronski, 2019)People's predictions of their IAT performance is predictable (Rivera & Hahn, 2019)For details on some of the newer (unpublished as of yet) work that Adam talks about, you might enjoy this 2021 talk he gave at Université Grenoble Alpes.News clips at the top of the show were sourced from the following: NPR [1] [2], 5News, CBSNews, Devex, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, & The Young Turks. For a transcript of this episode, visit: http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/unconscious-bias-with-adam-hahn/Learn more about Opinion Science at http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/ and follow @OpinionSciPod on Twitter.

BX Arabia is a regional behavioral insights conference that started in 2018 to emphasize the application of behavioral science in the Global South. Kurt and Tim were fortunate to be invited to moderate at the latest event, affording them the opportunity to have conversations with some of the region's most amazing BeSci thinkers. This episode highlights some of the unique insights from these conversations, with input from the following experts: Faisal Naru: Executive Director of the Policy Innovation Unit in the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and part of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Dr. Ahmed Al Zahrani: Minister Deputy and Chair of G20 as well as the Executive Director of the Riyadh Behavioral Insight Center in the Ministry of Human Resource and Social Development in Saudi Arabia. Saud Al Rakhayes: Founder and Senior Behavioral Strategist at The Behavior Change. Aditya Jagati: Leader of the Busara Center's offices in India. Wiam Hasanain: Behavioral scientist and social impact advisor based in Jetta, Saudi Arabia. Nabil Saleh: Vice President Strategy at Nudge Lebanon. Ivo Vlaev: Professor of Behavioral Science at Warwick Business School, UK. Many of the examples of behavioral science discussed highlight that the Global South has some unique needs in the field. However, an overarching theme is that context matters! The root of successful behavioral science ideas come from encompassing the surrounding culture and environment.  BX Arabia was founded by Fadi Makki, who is also the leader of B4 Development in Doha, Qatar. He left us with these inspirational words: “Unlearn all the old habits that are anchored in intuition, and then embrace, evidence-based policies and tools such as experimentation.” Topics (2:14) What makes BX Arabia unique?  (5:58) The growth of behavioral science agencies around the world. (8:13) How behavioral science is being integrated into public policy globally. (11:46) Why good intentions aren't enough to deal with wicked problems. (23:36) The need for more behavioral scientists in the Global South. (26:25) How behavioral science improved traffic flow in Beruit. (31:15) The success of weight loss programs using behavioral insights. (36:50) The large-scale nudges that are being studied at the FIFA World Cup in 2022. Links BX Arabia: https://nudgelebanon.org/bx-arabia/  Diversifi: https://www.diversifiglobal.com/  Behavioral Change For Good Initiative: https://bcfg.wharton.upenn.edu/  Episode 272, Jeff Madoff:  How To Turn Your Creative Dreams Into Reality: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/creativity-jeff-madoff/ John Bargh, Episode 248: Do We Control Situations or Do Situations Control Us? https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/control-situations-with-john-bargh/ © 2022 Behavioral Grooves

Welcome to 2022! For the start of this hopefully amazing year, Dr. David Melnikoff joins us to describe how goals reshape our brains. Whenever you begin a New Year's resolution or another goal, your mind changes its operation in order to align itself best for that new task. Dr. Melnikoff also defines the psychological theory of "flow," a cited creativity and productivity booster, and explains his work to create a computational model of it.  Dr. David Melnikoff is a social psychologist studying how goals shape the human mind. He earned his PhD in 2019 from Yale University where he worked with John Bargh. Currently, Dr. Melnikoff is a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University working with Lisa Feldman Barrett.Here are a few questions Dr. Melnikoff discusses-How do goals reconfigure our brains?Do goals that we don't often enjoy doing (like exercising) still shape our minds?How do our motives affect our interpretation of events and stimuli?What is "flow?"How will your computational model of flow help us in the future? Our Website: https://www.aimingforthemoon.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiming4moon/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aiming4MoonYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6-TwYdfPcWV-V1JvjBXk 

Mattie and Taylor discuss cognitive science with Dr. John Bargh, Yale professor and author of “Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do” (2017). We discuss free will, the hidden cues that manipulate us, and how to take control of our lives. Our Website: https://www.aimingforthemoon.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiming4moon/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aiming4MoonYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6-TwYdfPcWV-V1JvjBXk 

Rudeness is contagious, in a similar way to a virus. When experiencing a rude encounter, our brain perceives it like a threat. And once we've tuned in to this low-level threat, we're more likely to notice it around us, and therefore more likely to display rude behavior ourselves. Our guest on this episode is Dr Trevor Foulk PhD, Assistant Professor of Management & Organization at the University of Maryland. His well published research on deviant workplace behaviors and workplace power dynamics, has been featured in Time magazine, Harvard Business Review, and the Wall Street Journal. Trevor walks us through what rude behavior actually is, what our evolutionary response to it is and how we can take steps to mitigate the effects of it. We are also delighted to talk about Trevor's research around the way power changes our behavior, and what impact a feeling of paranoia can add to the dynamics. And to Tim's delight, Trevor also boosts our understanding of how music affects work performance.  Truth be told, our conversation with Trevor has opened our eyes into how rude behavior really impacts people. And in our Grooving Session, at the end of the episode, Kurt and Tim recap the ways Trevor's research can improve our lives. If you enjoy listening to our podcast, you can become an exclusive Behavioral Grooves Patreon member at https://www.patreon.com/behavioralgrooves.  Topics  (3:28) Welcome and speed round (8:38) How rudeness is contagious. (11:45) Why do we view rudeness as threatening? (13:10) The solutions to rudeness. (15:36) How our response to rudeness differs from holding a grudge. (17:52) Are certain personality types more susceptible to rudeness? (19:15) What effect does rudeness have on medical professionals? (22:59) Can gratitude have the opposite effect to rudeness? (24:27) How the Anchoring Effect is affected by rudeness. (28:43) How does a feeling of power change our behavior? (35:40) Paranoia and power. (39:51) How does music influence performance? (47:35) Grooving Session with Kurt and Tim discussing what we've learnt from Trevor's interview. © 2021 Behavioral Grooves Links Dr Trevor Foulk PhD: https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/directory/trevor-foulk  Foulk, T.A., Woolum, A., & Erez, A. (2016). Catching rudeness is like catching a cold: The contagion effects of low-intensity negative behaviors. Journal of Applied Psychology: https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Administration/Probation/ResearchInBriefs/RIB_Rudeness_Apr16(1).pdf  Riskin, A. Erez, A., Foulk, T.A., Kugelman, A., Gover, A., Shoris, I, Riskin, K., & Bamberger, P.A. (2015). The impact of rudeness on medical team performance: A randomized trial. Pediatrics: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26260718/  Foulk, T.A., Lanaj, K., Tu, M., Erez, A., & Archambeau, L. (2018)  Heavy is the head that wears the crown: An ator-centric approach to psychological power, abusive behavior, and perceived incivility.  Academy of Management Journal: https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amj.2015.1061  John Bargh: Episode 155. Dante, Coffee and the Unconscious Mind: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/john-bargh-dante-coffee-and-the-unconscious-mind/ John Bargh, Episode 248. Do We Control Situations or Do Situations Control Us? https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/control-situations-with-john-bargh/  Vanessa Bohns, Episode 253. Why You Don‘t Need to be Powerful to be Influential: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/influence-vanessa-bohns/ Musical Links  Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen “This Old Porch”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1xY2pu31h4 Jim Croce “Operator”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw01trwmul0 Rancid “Fall Back Down”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CinJuVtdp3Y Jimmy Buffett “Margaritaville”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3HBcgxOWAQ

Can we control our unconscious behavior? How much does the situation we're in control us? Can we prime people to behave a certain way? Is it even ethical to try? To what degree do cultural identity and stereotyping impact the automaticity of our actions? Following on from our discussion with Dr Philip Zimbardo PhD, in our last episode (#247) about the Stanford Prison Experiment, we reached out to our friend and previous guest (episode #155), Dr John Bargh PhD, social psychologist at Yale University. As the world's leading expert on the unconscious mind, John gave us fresh insight on how our behavior is primed by factors such as our cultural identity and even by who we are thinking about. Interestingly our conversation shifted towards changing attitudes in society and in particular the inspiration stance that athletes such as Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka have taken recently to prioritize their mental health. John describes them as pioneers: “what pioneers and leaders do is they give an alternative example for the other people and say, “You know what, you don't have to do this, here's what I did.”” In our last interview with John, he left us with some parting wisdom; to hug our children more. We couldn't resist asking him for some more wise words, so listen to the end to find out John's advice to all of us. Word of mouth continues to be the best way for new listeners to find Behavioral Grooves. Please consider sharing your favorite episodes with your friends. And if you want to help more, your financial support goes a long way. You can donate via our Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/behavioralgrooves. And thank you to all of our loyal listeners who already donate to our podcast. Topics we discuss with John Bargh (3:58) Welcome to John Bargh and speed round questions. (7:50) Nature vs nurture? (11:51) A summary of John's research on automaticity and priming. (15:04) How you activate a different cultural identity. (19:42) How did the Stanford Prison Experiment impact social psychology research? (25:09) Do we control situations or do situations control us? (30:14) Can you prime someone to commit murder? (35:17) How Simone Biles is an example of changing attitudes in society. (37:14) Are employees starting to self-select which corporation they work for? (44:29) What direction is the research on priming and automaticity heading in the future? (47:33) What research is John engaged in right now? (50:08) How can we prevent ourselves from being influenced by our context? (52:46) John's wise parting advice. (56:28) Grooving Session with Kurt and Tim discussing the interview.   © 2021 Behavioral Grooves Links John Bargh book “Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”: https://amzn.to/3yUHka8  Episode 155: John Bargh: Dante, Coffee and the Unconscious Mind: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/john-bargh-dante-coffee-and-the-unconscious-mind/ William James: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James  Rozin, Paul. (1976): “The evolution of intelligence and access to the cognitive unconscious.” Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology: https://bit.ly/37JnBhI  Cushman, Fiery (2019): “Rationalization is Rational”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences: https://bit.ly/2VRicTG  Episode 229: From Holding the Mic to Theory of Mind: Rob Leonard's Love of Language: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/rob-leonards-love-of-language/ Stanford Prison Experiment: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/stanford-prison-experiment/  Rosanna Summers: http://www.roseannasommers.com/  Vanessa Bohns: “You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion, and Why It Matters”: https://amzn.to/3g5Omlg  Lee Ross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ross  Kerri Strug: https://www.today.com/news/kerri-strug-shares-her-support-simone-biles-rest-usa-gymnasts-t226636  Simone Biles: https://www.simonebiles.com/  Naomi Osaka: https://www.naomiosaka.com/  Episode 147: Gary Latham, PhD: Goal Setting, Prompts, Priming, and Skepticism: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/gary-latham-goal-setting-prompts/ Support Behavioral Grooves Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/behavioralgrooves Musical Links  Jimi Hendrix “Somewhere”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-THhwh5mNI  Jimmy Page (Led Zepplin) “Stairway to Heaven”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF3oxziUI4 

耶魯大學社會心理學教授John Bargh 2017年發表專著，題目是《不知不覺：支配我們行為的下意識》 (Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do)。書中強調：人類受制於外界刺激和掌控的程度很多時候是下意識的，比如讓一個人經常聽到“皺紋”這個字，這個人居然走路會慢下來。 如果接觸負面的信息讓人出現負面行為，那反過來也應該成立，即，接觸正能量，一個人會從憂鬱中振作起來。 比如聽一個心理講座。果真如此嗎？更多詳細文字和圖片内容請進入《今日話題》Facebook 臉書專頁：https://www.facebook.com/1300todaystopic/

Today we welcome back a great friend of the podcast John Bargh Professor of social psychology at Yale University I always really enjoy my time with John and the opportunity to pick the brains of one of the most influential minds in psychology today. John’s book ‘Before you know it’ is essential reading. In which he goes into so many fascinating avenues to explore how our unconscious mind navigates the world. How we are so much influenced by our surroundings. How we can be triggered into action by other people How words written in our office can affect our motivations. To become better acquainted with your unconscious mind is to be better armed with the challenges of life We look into ways that you can better arrange your world How you can increase your motivation to do what YOU want to do with your life Not to be just carried away with the whims and wishes of your unconscious programmes We talk about John’s biggest influences in his long and distinguished career The effect of lockdown on our mental well being What the future may hold for us post covid A really interesting session with a fascinating man John A. Bargh is a social psychologist currently working at Yale where he has formed the Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation (ACME) Laboratory. John’s work focuses on automaticity and unconscious processing as a method to better understand social behaviour  as well as philosophical topics such as free will. Much of John’s work investigates whether actions and behaviours thought to be under volitional control may result from automatic interpretations of and reactions to external stimuli, such as words. Do you want to understand the BENEFITS of Mindfulness What it can do for YOUR game To become a Certified Mind Factor Mindfulness Practitioner go to   https://themindfactor.net/brand-new-product-release-mindfulness-program-online-video-course/    

Conventional wisdom is that you should get a physical exam every year with your doctor. Should you really? This episode begins by exploring who should and maybe who should not get an annual check-up and why. http://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/theres-no-evidence-you-need-annual-physical-exam-say-doctors Your unconscious mind affects your thoughts and behaviors in ways you can’t imagine - because that part of your mind is unconscious. That is the message from John Bargh, Yale professor of psychology and author of the book Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do (https://amzn.to/2JLKN2b). For example, feeling physically warm actually makes you more socially warm; feeling fear makes you think more politically conservative – it really is fascinating. Listen as professor Bargh takes you on a tour of your unconscious mind. Kitchens get messy from lingering cooking smells to fruit flies and a million other things. Listen as I reveal some great ways to solve common kitchen problems you probably haven’t heard before. http://food52.com/blog/14173-7-kitchen-cleaning-tricks-that-really-work How did Facebook, Amazon, Google and other big companies get so big so fast? The answer is “blitzscaling.” It is a recent phenomenon in business that was named and identified by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur Chris Yeh in their new book Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (https://amzn.to/2D4HW33). Chris Yeh joins me to explain how blitzscaling works and others in business can use the same principles. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! We really enjoy The Jordan Harbinger Show and we think you will as well! There’s just SO much here. Check out https://jordanharbinger.com/start for some episode recommendations, OR search for The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.  With Grove, making the switch to natural products has never been easier! Go to https://grove.co/SOMETHING and choose a free gift with your 1st order of $30 or more! Discover matches all the cash back you earn on your credit card at the end of your first year automatically and is accepted at 99% of places in the U.S. that take credit cards! Learn more at https://discover.com/yes Over the last 6 years, donations made at Walgreens in support of Red Nose Day have helped positively impact over 25 million kids. You can join in helping to change the lives of kids facing poverty. To help Walgreens support even more kids, donate today at checkout or at https://Walgreens.com/RedNoseDay. Download Best Fiends FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google Play. https://bestfiends.com https://www.geico.com Bundle your policies and save! It's Geico easy! If the signals are on, the train is on its way. And you...just need to remember one thing...Stop. Trains can’t! Paid for by NHTSA  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the food industry promises to police itself and pledges to improve nutrition in public health, can it be trusted to make meaningful change or must government mandate those changes? Our two guests today have done groundbreaking work to help address this very question. Dr. Jessica Fanzo, Professor of Global Food and Agricultural Policy and Ethics at Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Jennifer Harris is Senior Research Advisor for Marketing Initiatives at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut. Interview Summary So Jess, let's begin with you. You coauthored what I thought was a very important and novel report released by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition on product reformulation by the food industry. Would you might explain what's meant by reformulation? When we think about reformulation, it's really defined as the process of all-terrain a food or a beverage product. You can alter that by improving the products' health profile or reducing the content of harmful nutrients or ingredients. So it's a process of either removing those negative ingredients or nutrients or adding back positive ones into foods. Why is that done? Because people consume a lot of processed foods. Almost every food that we consume has gone through some form of processing, but there's a whole range of that processing from very minimal to very highly processed, what's often called ultra-processed or junk food that doesn't have a lot of nutritional value. In the report, we were looking at what are the challenges with reformulating food? What are some of the opportunities to reformulate food? And in the realm of reformulation, has it had a positive impact on public health? So we were looking at those aspects of the reformulation of processed foods. So I'm assuming there could be enormous advances to public health if reformulation were done on a broad scale and or if it were done in a meaningful way. So what were your main findings then? Have there been examples of industry being successful with voluntary reformulation? Somewhat. And absolutely it could have potentially really important positive impacts for public health, but it's also not a panacea for improving diets and nutrition. And while there are some examples where voluntary reformulation has had some impact, the UK with salt and some other examples, overall we found that it's important for governments to mandate reformulation through different tools, whether it's labeling, taxes, et cetera. For foods that are not reformulated, we felt that it was really important for governments to mandate with clear, transparent and direct targets, particularly removing the unhealthy ingredients like added sugars, salts, unhealthy fats like trans fats. The food industry should be involved in implementing reformulation policies but not in their design. And governments need to really step in and step up. But that said, that doesn't mean that reformulation is going to solve all the problems. Governments also need to invest in many other tools to protect consumers and to invest in other ways to improve diets for nutrition. So reformulation shouldn't be the only answer. So I'm assuming the reason that food industry won't go far enough on their own is that these things that make the food less healthy also tend to make them pretty palatable, or give them long shelf life or properties that make people enjoy them a lot. And that why in the world would they do something that would make their products less desirable? Does that pretty much the case or do you see other reasons why? That's definitely true. I mean, these highly processed foods are cheap in their ingredients to make, they are very palatable, there's a high demand for them. We're seeing this shift now into low-income countries like with tobacco when consumers catch on that these foods are not so healthy, they go to populations where there's a bit of a lag in that knowledge. But also reformulating foods from the industry's perspective is not so easy. It's quite expensive to do it. It's difficult to reduce salt and sugar, which are vital not only for the taste of foods, but for their composition and shelf-life and texture. So it has a lot of ramifications to remove those ingredients. So meeting government mandates around reformulation can be really challenging and sometimes impossible for companies. So they often will deal with getting a warning label, for the example in Chile, they'll just take the warning label because they can't reformulate some foods. But there's a change in consumer demand and tastes. Consumers like their brands, but the more and more consumers are caring about clean labels, environmental sustainability, their health, people are concerned about the amount of sugar in foods so they're going to have to answer to that, that changing demand as consumers demand better foods whether it's from a health or sustainability or transparency perspective. Let me ask one more question related to this. Is it also the case that it's pretty difficult for some company to be the first out of the gate if they were inclined to do this voluntarily because then their products would become less desirable and their competitors would be kinda stuck in the old ways? So isn't that another argument for government intervening that everybody is on the same playing field? Absolutely, yes. I mean, why not hold every player accountable and to the same standards and mandates? It pushes them all to take action. So when we were interviewing some of the industry players, they really struggle because when they did try to reformulate some of the foods, consumers no longer bought them because they're very wedded to their brands, they're wedded to certain tastes, it's a real challenge for them to keep their consumer base. But at the same time, try to adhere to government mandate. And some companies care more about health and sustainability than others. We definitely learn that some companies have no interest in that, because they know they'll always be a big consumer base for these quote less healthy foods. So there's a real issue from company to company of who's willing to take more action to reformulate and who doesn't really care to reformulate at all and they're willing to live with warning stickers and taxes. So Jennifer, let's turn to you. So you've done really pioneering work on the impact of food marketing on children that began when we were colleagues together at the Rudd Center when it was at Yale University. And there I was witness to the fact that you created a very impressive methodology for studying what's a pretty complicated issue. And you paid a lot of attention to industry promises for self-policing of children's food marketing. Do you mind giving us a quick sense of what's being marketed to who and how, and how much marketing children are exposed to? Annually, companies spend over $13 billion in advertising food to all consumers. And just to put that number in perspective, the whole chronic disease prevention budget at the CDC is 1 billion. So the companies are really controlling the messages about what people should eat. And most of that money is spent to advertise very unhealthy products. The products that are contributing to poor diet and disease in this country. The biggest ones are fast food, sugary drinks, sweet and salty snacks and candy. Those categories represent about 80% of all foods that are advertised. Healthier categories of foods, if you look at all of juice, water, fruits, and vegetables and nuts combined, it's less than 3% of the total. So they're really pushing these very high fat, high sugar, high salt products extensively. Companies spend most of their advertising dollars on television ads. On an annual basis, kids see about 4,000 of those ads per year. So almost 4,000 ads, that's over 10 a day for unhealthy food. Kids of color, so black kids see twice as many of those ads. A lot of the worst products, their advertising is targeted to Black and Hispanic communities and especially adolescents. But TV isn't the only way companies advertise. And in the last few years, the ways that companies market just increased exponentially. Now with smartphones and tablets, they can reach kids any place and any time through things like ads on YouTube videos, social media, smartphone apps, with games and ordering programs, even educational websites teachers are using in grade school have ads on them. This kind of marketing is personalized. So what you see depends on what you do online. They know who you are and they can reach you. And unfortunately, this kind of marketing also is the kind of thing that parents can't monitor as easily as what your child is watching on TV. So the companies basically try to be wherever the consumer is to reach them with their advertising. Well those are really stunning numbers. I know one of the arguments the industry has made for years, and one of the things that you've addressed directly in your research is their claim that this food advertising doesn't really make kids or adults eat an unhealthy diet, it just shifts their preference from brand to brand. So if Coke is advertising a lot, they might say, "Well we just wanna take market share from Pepsi, "but we're not encouraging sugar beverage consumption." What would you say to that? That is something they've argued for a long time. And one thing that we showed is that just watching a television program with food advertising makes kids and adults eat a lot more both while they're watching and afterwards. And another of our colleagues, Ashley Gearhardt has done some really interesting research showing how the food advertising actually activates the reward regions of the brain and leads to increased consumption. So that's one way that food marketing affects more than brand preferences. There's also been a lot of research showing that if you advertise Coke, it increases consumption and purchases of all sugary drinks. They also affect sales of the categories, not just the specific brands. So with you and others doing so much work showing how much of the marketing there is and how disastrous the impact is, you can imagine the industry feels vulnerable to the possibility of outside regulation or perhaps even litigation. And so one of the things the industry has done and this links back to what Jessica was talking about in the context of reformulation, is to say that they can police themselves. So can you explain how they've gone about doing that? Well in the US there's a program called the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, which is the food industry self-regulatory program to address food advertising to kids. And there are similar programs in countries around the world. But basically what the industry has promised is that they will only advertise products that meet nutrition standards in child directed media. That sounds really great. They implemented the program in 2007, but you said Kelly, we've done a lot of research showing how many limitations and loopholes there are in this program. One is that they only define children as 11 years and younger. So they only have promised to reduce unhealthy advertising to young children. And more and more of the research is showing that adolescents are just as affected and maybe even more effected by the advertising. Since their program was implemented, they've increased their advertising to the slightly older group that isn't covered by the CFBAI. Another limitation is their definition of what is child directed is advertising in media where children are the primary audience. So on television that would basically be children's TV. So Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, those kinds of programs. But children watch a lot more television than just children's television. And so they can still advertise anything they want on programs that are also watched by adults and older children. And then the third major limitation is that they've set their own nutrition standards. So they have defined what is healthy. And maybe not surprisingly, a lot of the products that they say are healthier choices that can be advertised to kids are things like sugary cereals, fruit drinks that maybe have less sugar but they also have artificial sweeteners in them. Things like goldfish crackers, fast-food kids' meals, all of those can still be advertised to children under their nutrition standards. What we found is since the program was implemented in 2007, food advertising on children's television has gone down quite a bit, 45%. But at the same time, advertising on other types of television that children watch has gone up about 30%. So now kids see almost as much food advertising as they used to, but most of it is not on children's television, it's on the other kinds of television that they're watching. And a lot of the harder things to monitor, things like apps and social media and websites do not qualify as child directed media under this program. Now the reason I asked both of you to be on this podcast at the same time as I figured there would be interesting similarities, even though you're working on somewhat different topics, and boy does it turn out to be they're real themes weave through this. So let's talk next about what might be done then. So Jessica, with your work on industry reformulation, what have you concluded can be done voluntarily? Kelly, I think government needs to be much more involved than they are. The challenges that we see with voluntary regulation, whether it's in reformulation or marketing of unhealthy foods to children, we know that voluntary reformulation, industry sets its own agenda, they set their own targets, they have no accountability to meet those targets, they may pledge to reduce harmful ingredients but if the product has a very high level of these unhealthy ingredients, the reformulation may not make much of a difference from a public health point of view. So I think we need much more regulation. Governments need to hold industry accountable and ensure that they are meeting national standards for public health. I think government has been too laissez-faire about industry and the power that they hold. And I think now we're seeing the consequences of that not only in the United States, but everywhere in the world with rising levels of obesity and NCDs and unhealthy diets being a big risk factor with these processed foods playing a huge role in that. So we really need to see government step up in a much more profound way and hold industry having public health goals. It's a little bit of enough is enough. So Jess, just out of curiosity, let's say you were the government official in charge of taking such action and you have the authority to do it, where would you start? Would you start with particular nutrients across the food chain or would you start with certain categories of food and would you worry first about sugar, salt, fat? That's a good question. In the paper we outline four types of processed foods. To me I would probably look across the entire food supply chain at those highly, highly processed foods. And it would be good to start with at least the three categories of sugars, salt, and trans fats to even start with and setting key targets for those and marking those ultra-processed foods that go beyond that target. Chile had the great food law that's been enacted that's put warning labels on the front of packages and has regulated I think some of the advertising of those foods. Jennifer you probably know about this. And I think that's been an important case study for the rest of the world to look at of how Chile has done that because sales of those foods that have the warning label have gone down somewhere in the ballpark of I think between 23 and 28%, depending on the population. But I think there's lessons to be learned of how Chile has done that that other governments could learn from. Now I'm happy that you pointed out the advances in Chile because there have been some very impressive impacts reported from the studies that have been done so far. So I agree that that is really a model to look to. So Jennifer, let's just get your opinion on this. Where do you come down on this issue of voluntary versus mandated? So we've given the industry 12 years now to show that they can market healthier products to kids. And basically what they've done is they're marketing slightly healthier products to kids but the products they're marketing are not nutritious products that children should be consuming a lot of like sugared cereals. So it's pretty clear that they can't do it on their own and that regulation is required. In the US, we have a little bit of an issue that not all countries have because of the First Amendment. And advertising is protected speech according to the Supreme Court. So we can't just say companies cannot advertise anything. So we have to be more strategic about the kinds of regulations that we can implement here. If we could do anything we wanted, Chile is a great example. In the next year, they won't be able to advertise any products that are high in fat, sugar and salt before 9:00 p.m. So it's not just children's programming, they won't be able to advertise it. They had to take all their characters off their packages. And so Tony the Tiger can't be on the package of frosted flakes anymore because it's high in sugar. They've done a lot of great things in Chile and sure we can adapt some of what they've done. In other countries also, for example the UK has very strong laws about marketing foods in digital media. So that would be another thing that we could import from other countries.   Bios   Jessica Fanzo, Ph.D., is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food Policy and Ethics at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University in the USA. She also serves as the Director of Hopkins' Global Food Policy and Ethics Program, and as Director of Food & Nutrition Security at the JHU Alliance for a Healthier World.  From 2017 to 2019, Jessica served as the Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report and the UN High Level Panel of Experts on Food Systems and Nutrition. Before coming to Hopkins, she has also held positions at Columbia University, the Earth Institute, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Food Programme, Bioversity International, and the Millennium Development Goal Centre at the World Agroforestry Center in Kenya. She was the first laureate of the Carasso Foundation's Sustainable Diets Prize in 2012 for her research on sustainable food and diets for long-term human health. Jennifer Harris, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Advisor, Marketing Initiatives at the Rudd Center. Previously, Dr. Harris worked as Director of Marketing Initiatives and was an Associate Professor in Allied Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Harris received her B.A. from Northwestern University and M.B.A. in Marketing from The Wharton School. Before returning to graduate school, she was a marketing executive for eighteen years, including at American Express as a Vice President in consumer marketing and as principal in a marketing strategy consulting firm. Harris completed her PhD in Social Psychology at Yale University with John Bargh and Kelly Brownell.

Joel Weinberger is a Professor of Psychology at the Derner Institute at Adelphi University with Postdoctoral training in motivation at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Psychological Association. His research has focused on unconscious processes and worked closely during his post-doc with motivation guru David McClelland. Joel is the founder of the consulting firm Implicit Strategies, where he helps political campaigns, non-profits, and businesses discover what consumers unconsciously think and feel about their candidate, product, or brand. In addition to roughly 100 peer-reviewed articles, his political and business commentaries have appeared in various outlets, including The Huffington Post, Anderson Cooper, and Good Morning America. In addition to writing, teaching, and consulting, Joel is a practicing clinical psychologist. We are here to talk with him about his seminal book, The Unconscious, that we came to because of a generous recommendation from Yale scholar, John Bargh, PhD. We spoke with Joel in late June 2020 and, regrettably, we failed to publish our conversation earlier. So, you’ll hear some references to the 2020 campaign that are asynchronous to where we are today; that said, Joel successfully predicted the outcome of the US Presidential election back in June! Predictions aside, Joel’s encyclopedic knowledge of research on the unconscious is - dare I say - thrilling. We discussed Joel’s admiration for the work of Sigmund Freud, his collaborations with David McClelland, the interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, and research he’s done with his long-time partner, Drew Westen. We covered political campaigns, deniers of the unconscious, and the liberating voice of Sam Cooke. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Joel and happy new year! (And good riddance to 2020!) © 2020 Behavioral Grooves   Links Joel Weinberger, PhD: https://www.adelphi.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?PID=0275 “Unconscious: Theory, Research and Clinical Implications”: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44658840-the-unconscious?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kvDgbgcuys&rank=1 Mickey Mantle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mantle David McClelland, PhD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McClelland David McClelland and Joel Weinberger on Implicit vs. Self Attributed: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1990-03570-001 Sigmund Freud “The Interpretation of Dreams”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interpretation_of_Dreams Sigmund Freud “The Unconscious”: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_Unconscious.pdf Drew Westen, “The Political Brain”: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853648.The_Political_Brain Weinberger & Westen “RATS, We Should Have Used Clinton: Subliminal Priming in Political Campaigns”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2008.00658.x Heddy Lamarr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr Blues music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues AJ Jacobs “The Year of Living Biblically”: https://ajjacobs.com/books/the-year-of-living-biblically/ Kwame Christian on Compassionate Curiosity – Episode 178: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/kwame-christian-on-compassionate-curiosity-social-justice-conversations-and-cinnamon-toast-crunch/   Musical Links “Yesterday” by the Beatles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YWyFIzSeXI Sam Cooke “Bring it on Home to Me” (Harlem Version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYdX4_9VbBA Tedeschi Trucks Band - "Bring It On Home To Me": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwuhY8mbu2s Leadbelly “Goodnight, Irene”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn50JSI0W-E BB King “The Thrill is Gone”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWLAAzOBoBI

Pretty much everyone around the world agrees that 2020 was a challenging year and we’re glad it’s all but over. However, 2020 was a year we upped the number of guests (to 90), upped our reading habits (20+ books for the show), and had more authors as guests than in any previous year. In short, Kurt and Tim read a lot of new books. And because we read bunches of them, we’re here to save you time by offering you our view of the top 10 books – 5 from Kurt and 5 from Tim – on behavioral science from 2020. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did – and as always, let us know what you think! For quick reference, here’s our list with links for your enjoyment. And here’s to happy reading in 2021! Top Book List from Kurt “Behave,” by Robert Sapolsky: https://amzn.to/3p5MJWF “Good Habits, Bad Habits,” by Wendy Wood: https://amzn.to/3p6v1lK “Scarcity,” by Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan: https://amzn.to/3nsMS62 “Think Like a Rocket Scientist,” Ozan Varol: https://amzn.to/34n8OI7 “Before You Know It,” by John Bargh: https://amzn.to/3r7SbtT Top Book List from Tim “How to Decide,” by Annie Duke: https://amzn.to/38nHsmK “Behavioral Insights,” by Michael Hallsworth and Elspeth Kirkman: https://amzn.to/2WsJ1Kr “Alchemy,” by Rory Sutherland: https://amzn.to/2LEwRfd “Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and Why,” by Steve Martin & Joe Marks: https://amzn.to/38gRHsH “Unleash Your Primal Brain,” by Tim Ash: https://amzn.to/3gYM1rr   Honorable Mentions “Elevate,” by Robert Glazer “Designing for Behavior Change,” by Steve Wendel “Invisible Influences,” by Jonah Berger “White Fragility,” Robin DeAngelo “The All-Or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work,” by Eli Finkel “The Power of Bad,” by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney “Better, Not Perfect,” by Max Bazerman “Time Smart,” by Ashley Whillans “Blindsight: the mostly hidden ways marketing shapes our brains,” by Prince Ghuman and Matt Johnson Thanks for listening and we hope you find your groove with these books! © 2020 Behavioral Grooves

John Bargh, PhD is a Professor of Psychology and Management at Yale University. His name may be familiar because of the replication crisis, but there is so much more to John Bargh than a couple of experiments that were challenged during replication. John has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, chapters in over 30 books, and he founded The ACME lab at Yale in order to research the unconscious and implicit influences on social judgment, motivation, and behavior.  Over the years, his research has focused on embodied cognition effects, or how physical experiences (such as washing one’s hands or holding something warm or rough) influence metaphorically related social variables (like how physical warmth leads to feelings of physical warmth, for example).  Recently, he’s been focused on how social goals and political attitudes can be influenced by the satisfaction of underlying physical-level motivations; for example, how immunization against the flu virus influences attitudes towards immigration as ‘invaders’ of one’s ‘cultural body.’ We feel fortunate to have such a wide-ranging and fun conversation with John and we’re pleased to share his insights and humor with our listeners. If you’ve not subscribed to our Patreon site, please check it out at www.patreon.com/behavioralgrooves. © 2020 Behavioral Grooves   Links John Bargh, PhD: https://psychology.yale.edu/people/john-bargh ACME Lab: https://acmelab.yale.edu/ Bargh & Williams’ Coffee Study: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/suppl/2008/10/23/322.5901.606.DC1/Williams.SOM.pdf Jeff Simpson, PhD: https://twin-cities.umn.edu/content/faculty-profile-jeffry-simpson John Bowlby, PhD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowlby Dante Alighieri “The Divine Comedy”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy Priming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology) Richard Nisbett, PhD: https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/emeriti-faculty/nisbett.html Tim Wilson, PhD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Wilson Gary Latham, PhD: https://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/Faculty/FacultyBios/Latham Peter Gollwitzer, PhD: https://as.nyu.edu/psychology/people/faculty.peter-m-gollwitzer.html Howard Gardner, PhD “The Mind’s New Science”: https://www.amazon.com/Minds-New-Science-Cognitive-Revolution/dp/0465046355 “The Effect of Primed Goals on Employee Performance: Implications for Human Resource Management,” Shantz & Latham: https://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/37%20-%20Shantz%20&%20Latham%20HRM%202011.pdf On Diederik Stapel’s bad data: “The case of Diederik Stapel”: https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2011/12/diederik-stapel Jeff Greenberg, PhD on “Terror Management Theory”: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/terror-management-theory Sigmund Freud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud William James: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James Susan Fiske, PhD: https://psych.princeton.edu/person/susan-fiske Apocalypse of St. Paul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Paul The Zeigarnik Effect: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XHpBr0VFcaT8wIUpr-9zMIb79dFMgOVFRxIZRybiftI/edit Feng Shui: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui Chameleon Effect: https://acmelab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/1999_the_chameleon_effect.pdf Lucien Stryk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Stryk Adam Grant “Pre-Crastination”: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/why-i-taught-myself-to-procrastinate.html Kristen Berman on Behavioral Grooves – Episode 149: https://behavioralgrooves.com/uncategorized/covid-19-crisis-kristen-berman-on-remote-work-quaranteams-and-marinades/ Wim Hof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof Gary Latham on Behavioral Grooves – Episode 147: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/gary-latham-phd-goal-setting-prompts-priming-and-skepticism/    Artist Links King Louie & Bo$$ Woo “Gumbo Mobsters” (Drill): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA1XYIdz3TA&feature=emb_title Jimmy Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Page Robert Plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Plant Talking Heads “Fear of Music”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_Music Alan Parsons Project “Sirius (Eye in the Sky)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkC_oi0ksuw YoYo Ma on Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major Prelude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1prweT95Mo0  

John is one of the world’s most highly regarded social psychologists He is a professor at Yale University Author of over 200 research papers His experiments in social psychology are legendary This podcast will really get you to think The way you interact with your OWN world How the way you process your world is either making you happy or sad The choices you are making The skill of directing your attention The importance of others How we can set our world up to be more productive and in turn far happier It is the perfect time to welcome back John Bargh one of the world’s most eminent social psychologists. John wrote a wonderful book ‘Before you know it’ – The unconscious reasons we do what we do it really is a must read book exploring all of the ways our unconscious mind runs our world in today’s show we cover some really important ground that will have a multitude of effects in various parts of YOUR life The fascinating effects of PRIMING How we are constantly being triggered to behave in certain ways by our environment and the people within that environment We are being primed all of the time The big question is can we ‘self prime’? Can we PRIME ourselves? John really drills down into the pro’s and cons of self priming Look around your everyday world Look around your environment What is your world telling you to do? We might be trying to consciously change ourselves but if our environment doesn’t support it we are giving ourselves less that our best chance How other people will REALLY impact our productivity in the world Ignore this at your peril John is such an engaging guest Generous with his time and his spirit Every time I speak to him I learn something REALLY important I am sure you will do the same Enjoy the show To get John’s book ‘Before you know it’ – The unconscious reasons we do what we do: https://tinyurl.com/yx3bmlnt To Join us on the Training for Golf weekend with Phil Richards Go to https://themindfactor.net/training-camp-for-golf-2020/        

Today, tapping into the hidden unconscious, and how this can boost our energy, vitality and motivation. It’s not dark… it’s the hidden but helpful and powerful part of the mind that we can access and understand through experimental science. Dr Bargh presents an engaging and enlightening tour of the influential psychological forces that are at work as we go about our daily lives – checking a dating app, holding a cup of hot coffee or getting a flu jab. In this podcast we cover Getting better at chess, and stuff. Tapping into power of unconscious. Online time and how it cuts your mind in half (not literally!) Subliminal ways of hacking into the mind. And loads more.  

For the past 35 years we have studied unconscious mental processes scientifically, how they operate and influence the average person, which paints a very different picture from Freud’s version which was based on a handful of mentally ill individuals. This is the first time in human history we have a systematic and scientific understanding of how our hidden mind works. John Barth, PhD is a social and cognitive psychologist and the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind. He is the James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology at Yale University and director of the ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation) Laboratory. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com

John Bargh is a social psychologist and Professor of Psychology working at Yale University. On this fascinating episode of The Salesman Podcast John shares how we can master our subconscious, influence other peoples and use it as a tool to improve ourselves. Resources: Book: Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We […] The post #598: The SCIENCE Of Selling With Our SUBCONSCIOUS With John Bargh Ph.D. appeared first on Salesman.org.

John Bargh is a psychology professor at Yale University and author of the book Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do (2017). A couple years ago, he and his team performed an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals—at least, temporarily. And they succeeded. John discusses how their results illuminate the depth of our political divisions and how fear factors play a pivotal role. Twentyfour the People is hosted by Sophia Sokolowski.

Hast Du Streitigkeiten im privaten Umfeld, Team, Projekt oder Unternehmen? Häufig sind wir uns mittlerweile gewohnt, dass es im Leben eben Streit-Baustellen hat. Die Wahrheit ist, dass das nicht sein muss. Überhaupt nicht. Daher lade ich Dich heute super gerne ein, einfach mal  wahrzunehmen, wie sich der Streit auf Dich auswirkt. Was er an Zeit, Energie, Geld und Erfolg frisst - einfach verschluckt wie ein schwarzes Loch. Was er mit Deinen Gesichtsmuskeln macht und was mit Deiner Schulter- & Nackenmuskulatur passiert.  Spür ruhig gut in Dich rein und nimm auch wahr, was es in Deinem privaten Umfeld macht. Lebst Du Dich noch aus? Lebst Du Deine Leichtigkeit und Lebensfreude? Spürst Du Deine Kreativität und geniesst das Leben in vollen Zügen? Oder ziehst Du Dich zurück? Bist blockiert? Beleidigt? Schweigsam? Enttäuscht? Verletzt? Wann hast Du zuletzt so richtig herzhaft gelacht? Dann ist es Zeit, nochmals die Augen zu schliessen und Dir vorzustellen, der Streit wäre bereinigt. Der Flow in Deinem Projekt, im Team, im privaten Umfeld und Unternehmen fliesst wieder. Es geht um ein effizientes angenehmes Arbeiten an den gemeinsamen Zielen, ein genussvolles Miteinander im privaten Umfeld, Lachen, Leben, Lieben in Leichtigkeit und Freude. So ist das Leben nämlich in Wirklichkeit gedacht! Das ist die eigentliche Normalität. Und das geht. Als mir selbst Streitigkeiten mit all den Blockaden zuviel wurden, mein Masseur kaum mehr gegen meine betonharten Schultern und die Kosmetikerin nicht mehr gegen die hängenden Mundwinkel & Zornesfalte angekommen ist, habe ich eine Mediationsausbildung absolviert und mich zur Streitschlichterin ausbilden lassen. Heute arbeite ich mit diesen Tools und beseitige damit super gerne Streitblockaden & sonstige Störfaktoren. Mein Masseur & Kosmetikerin haben weniger zu tun …. Wie die Mediation funktioniert, würde ich Dir gerne zeigen und Dich mit diesem Prozess vertraut machen. Im heutigen Interview nehme ich Dich daher mit zu einem meiner Lieblingsdozenten. James Peter ist Rechtsanwalt in Zürich mit Spezialgebiet Mediation. Bei ihm habe ich es gelernt. Er teilt mit uns, wie eine Mediation abläuft, was das überhaupt ist und warum sich dieser Weg zur Streitschlichtung so sehr lohnt. In dieser Folge erfährst Du: ☀️ Aus welchen Einzelschritten Mediation besteht ☀️ Wann Mediation der richtige Weg is ☀️ Warum Mediation sowohl im privaten als auch im beruflichen Bereich geeignet ist ☀️ Warum Mediation wie ein Bagger ist, der einen blockierenden Stein aus dem Flussbett holt und damit dem Flow wieder freie Bahn gibt ☀️ Wie Du die Mediation für Dich im beruflichen und privaten Bereich am besten nutzen kannst ☀️ Warum Mediation den Workflow und Lebens-Fluss so stark ankurbelt ☀️ Warum Mediation ganzheitlicher ist als ein Gerichtsverfahren ☀️ Warum Mediation ein riesen Geschenk für Dich ist Am Ende der Episode verrät er uns sogar, wie er das Verfahren auf sich selbst in einer herausfordernden privaten Situation angewandt hat. Danke für Deine unglaublich bereichernde Offenheit, lieber James! So, jetzt wünsche ich Dir ganz viel Freude mit dieser Podcastfolge und freu mich über Deine Gedanken in den Kommentaren auf Instagram und meiner Internetseite ❤️ Du kannst diese Folge überall auf ITunes, meiner Internetseite, Spotify, Youtube und allen PodcastApps anhören. Denk daran, Du musst Dich mit gar nichts abfinden! Streitigkeiten aufräumen kann man immer. Dein Leben darf leicht und genussvoll sein. Wenn es hakt, melde Dich einfach www.nadjalang.com Ich wünsch Dir einen wunderschönen Tag ☀️❤️ Deine Nadja Links zu James Peter: www.ksup.ch www.bellevue-mediation.ch Buchempfehlungen von James: “Aussergerichtliche Konfliktlösung” von James Peter und Daniel Girsberger (www.buchhaus.ch/buecher/fachbuecher/detail/ISBN-9783727287985/Peter-James-T./Gerichtsnahe-Mediation) “Difficult Conversations” von Bruce Patton und Douglas Stone   https://amzn.to/2STT1ZD “Offen gesagt!”  von Douglas Stone und Bruce Patton     https://amzn.to/2TToITb “Schnelles Denken, langsames Denken” von Daniel Kahnemann https://amzn.to/2Cpf1EL “Vor dem Denken” von  John Bargh  https://amzn.to/2Clxan6   Hier kannst Du Dich mit mir verbinden: www.nadjalang.com Instagram @nadjalangcoaching Facebook nadjalangcoaching

John Bargh is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on the science of priming and the unconscious mind. The James Rowland Professor of Psychology, Professor of Management at Yale University, and founder of Yale's Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation (ACME) lab, John has conducted revolutionary research focused on non-conscious drivers of human behavior for more than three decades. He has written nearly 200 scholarly research and theoretical papers—for which he has received major awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Distinguished Career Award from the American Psychological Association—and is the author of one of Business Insider's outstanding reads of 2017, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do. In this episode, John dives into the research behind priming and how certain stimuli can shape our perception and behavior. Listen in to learn how images and strategic cues influence us, what we can do to counteract negative priming effects, and ways you can set up intentional primes in your own life to create positive outcomes. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: http://bit.ly/2rcUVbR 

For the past 35 years we have studied unconscious mental processes scientifically, how they operate and influence the average person, which paints a very different picture from Freud’s version that was based on a handful of mentally ill individuals. This is the first time in human history we have a systematic and scientific understanding of how our hidden mind works. John Bargh, PhD is a social and cognitive psychologist and the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind. He is the James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology at Yale University and director of the ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation) Laboratory. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com

Many key findings in psychological research are under question, as the results of some of its most well-known experiments – such as the marshmallow effect, ego depletion, stereotype threat and the Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment – have proved difficult or impossible to reproduce. This has affected numerous careers and led to bitter recriminations in the academic community. So can the insights of academic psychology be trusted and what are the implications for us all? Featuring contributions from John Bargh, Susan Fiske, John Ioannidis, Brian Nosek, Stephen Reicher, Diederik Stapel and Simine Vazire. Presenter David Edmonds Producer Ben Cooper

Do you really need to get a physical exam every year? We begin this episode by exploring who should and maybe who should not get an annual check-up and why. http://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/theres-no-evidence-you-need-annual-physical-exam-say-doctorsYour unconscious mind affects your thoughts and behaviors in ways you can’t imagine. That is the message from John Bargh, Yale professor of psychology and author of the book Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do (https://amzn.to/2JLKN2b). For example, feeling physically warm actually makes you more socially warm; feeling fear makes you think more politically conservative – it’s just amazing. Listen as professor Bargh takes you on a tour of your unconscious mind. A lot of things can get messy in your kitchen – from lingering cooking smells to fruit flies and a million other things. Listen as I reveal some great ways to solve common kitchen problems you probably haven’t heard before. http://food52.com/blog/14173-7-kitchen-cleaning-tricks-that-really-workHow did Facebook, Amazon, Google and other big companies get so big so fast? The answer is “blitzscaling.” It is a recent phenomenon in business that was named and identified by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur Chris Yeh in their new book Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (https://amzn.to/2D4HW33). Chris Yeh joins me to explain how blitzscaling works and others in business can use the same principles. This Week's SponsorsCare/Of Vitamins. For 25% off your first month of personalized care/of vitamins go to www.TakeCareOf.com and use the promo code SOMETHING Home Chef. Go to www.HomeChef.com/something to get $30 off your first order. Madison Reed. For 10% off plus free shipping on your first order go to www.Madison-Reed.com/somethingJet.com. For a great online shopping experience go to www.Jet.com The Lodge at Woodloch. $50 resort credit off any 2-night stay at The Lodge at Woodloch when mentioning promo code SOMETHING by calling 800-966-3562, Option 2, then Option 1 for reservations.

Koen Smets is not a household name, but it ought to be. Pronounced KEWN, our guest in this episode is Belgian by birth and has lived in the UK for more than 20 years.  He is a founding partner of CareIQ, a firm that offers innovative concepts for improving the healthcare market, but spends most of his time with Altered Chord, a behavioral sciences firm near and dear to his heart. And he is an avid writer on the topics related to applied behavioral science. Koen believes that human behavior is complex and simplified conclusions about why we do what we do are just plain lazy. We applaud his rigor! It’s best to start learning about Koen from his own words: “A widespread misconception is that biases explain or even produce behavior. They don’t – they describe behavior…biases evolved with us, and for good reasons…” Kurt and Tim came to follow Koen because of his provocative tweets and thoughtful writings about behavioral economics. His witty insights and unique perspective on the field bring a vital voice to how best to apply behavioral sciences to a variety of real-world situations. And for Koen, like us, it all starts with scientific study.  So our conversation started with discussing an issue on the minds of those who follow the world of behavioral sciences today: the so-called replication crisis. We got into Koen’s thoughts on why it’s no crisis at all, even in light of John Bargh’s famous study on priming failing to replicate. Koen explained that researchers are stumbling into the vagaries of how the complexities of context influence the execution of studies.  In fact, he went on, the “replication crisis” really points to the need for organizations to test and identify the most successful practices for their own culture. Otherwise, beware of the consequences. This led to a discussion about how the environment influences our decision making. We used the environment as a natural platform to discuss the actual differences, and similarities, between life in Europe and the US as well as the differences between behavioral economics and neoclassical economics. We discussed how the economics debate is a false dichotomy – or at least it should be – because decision making in the real world is complex. A decision will be influenced by our worldview, which is influenced by who we socialize with, which is influenced by where we work, which is influenced by our education, which is influenced by our family of origin, which is influenced by where we were born! Context contributes to a great deal of the way our decision making is manifest in the world.  We brought up some of the papers Koen’s written such as “There's more to behavioral economics than biases” and one of our all-time favorites, “An accidental behavioral economist on holiday” This last article shares insights on how taking a holiday in the same location every year allows the vacationer to notice changes more easily than if you lived there every day. Koen’s annual visit to a seaside resort reveals many examples of behavioral science. He points out what happens to surrounding businesses when a patisserie closes, how the cost of street parking in the downtown area affects traffic and shopping, and how reputation and risk (and their relative efficiencies and costs) go together in a small village by the sea. These examples are microcosmic examples of how our we behave in global markets. Of course, we ended up with a conversation about music in which we talked about jazz and discussed the altered chord as a way to break up the predictable sounds of common tonality. Koen’s actively involved in music and revealed how music is a terrific metaphor for real life, especially in what he called “symphonic jazz.” In symphonic jazz, Koen describes how two disciplines collide to allow space for both a meaningful and agreed-upon direction with coordination of the various people who will do the work (the symphonic side). And it also fosters space for improvisation while the work is being done (the jazz side). We even had the opportunity to integrate a brief discussion of religion, Richard Dawkins and the irreverent cartoon series South Park around the Atheist War storyline.  Definately one of the best podcasts we did in 2018!   We hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

An absolutely brilliant podcast today that will really get you thinking about the way your mind actually works. I love doing these podcasts but this was extra special. John Bargh is the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind. He is the James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology at YALE university and the author of the wonderful book ‘Before you Know it’ The unconscious reasons we do what we do   You will never look at the role of your unconscious mind in the same way again. Far from it being a place of deep and dark repressed issues your unconscious can be your best friend IF you know how to work with it.   In today’s show we talk to John Bargh about his groundbreaking work. How he had his ‘Alligator Moment’ and how a problem he had been wrestling with for a number of years came to a resolution due to the effect of his unconscious mind and after that how the direction of his academic enquiry changed forever.   We discuss the role of the unconscious in sports and how to best utilise its phenomenal power The role of PRIMING How your environment and the people within it are constantly triggering behaviour How you can set your environment up to work FOR rather than against you   How the past, the present and the future are constantly interacting and how you need to be VERY aware of their effects   How goals need to be VERY carefully thought through and how the wrong goals can be so very damaging   Implementation Intentions If there is one part of the show that has the chance to CHANGE your life it is this Learn the difference between an intention and an implementation intention They are profoundly different   Life hacks you can instantly use The power of really looking at the person in front of you The effects of physical content Just gem after gem of vital knowledge with a truly engaging Before you know it man Enjoy   ‘Before you know it’ by John Bargh available at amazon.co.uk   for details of Mind Factor coaching with Karl Morris go to www.themindfactor.com  

For the past 35 years we have studied unconscious mental processes scientifically, how they operate and influence the average person, which paints a very different picture from Freud’s version which was based on a handful of mentally ill individuals. This is the first time in human history we have a systematic and scientific understanding of how our hidden mind works. John Barth, PhD is a social and cognitive psychologist and the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind. He is the James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology at Yale University and director of the ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation) Laboratory. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com

新知日历 | 喜马拉雅平台首档自制知识资讯类音频节目从专业人士演讲、权威学术期刊、社会热点文章，行业大数据平台，分析报告等各类来源提取新认知、新观点和新趋势，为用户提供每日高品质知识资讯。新认知 | 夫妻真的会越长越像吗？你好！欢迎打开今天的新知日历！不知道你有没有这样的感觉，身边一些已婚的朋友们越来越有传说中的“夫妻相”了？你可能心里会犯嘀咕：这该不会是我的错觉吧！ 为了验证这个“错觉”，美国著名社会心理学家罗伯特  扎荣茨（Robert Zajonc）做了一项著名的心理学研究。他找了12对老夫老妻，要来了他们新婚时候的个人照片和他们结婚25年以后的个人照片。然后，他邀请了74名志愿者来猜这12对夫妻的组合。志愿者们被分成两组，第一组拿到的是这些夫妻新婚时的个人照，第二组拿到的是他们结婚25年之后的。你猜结果怎么样呢？那些拿到新婚时个人照的，他们的配对成绩一点儿不靠谱，正确率很低。而拿到结婚25年后的照片的那一组，他们却能更好地将夫妻照片进行配对。这也就是说，夫妻越长越像确实不是人的错觉！这时候，有些朋友们可能会问了：容貌好端端的，怎么能说变就变呢？事实上，我们对容貌的感知主要来源于两方面：一个是物理外观容貌，也叫解剖学容貌，它是和人的面部骨骼特征有关的，比如瞳孔间距、眉骨间距等。这些特征除非是经历了巨大的创伤，或者是经过了巨大的整形，否则是不大会发生变化的。而另外一个容貌的来源则是人的综合特征，比如面部的细微表情、神态等，这些方面是可以随着生活、环境的变化发生改变的。所以，我们所说的夫妻相，其实是来源于后者，也就是人的综合特征。那么，究竟是什么原因会让夫妻越来越像呢？ 心理学家们给出了一个答案：变色龙效应。这个效应是说，人们在社会交流时会无意识地模仿对方的神态、表情和言行举止等，这就和变色龙为了适应环境变化要变色一样。这个理论是由纽约大学的两位心理学家坦娅 恰特兰（Tanya Chartrand）和约翰 巴夫（John Bargh）提出的，他们在1999年的时候做了一组实验。 在这个实验里，实验对象们进入了一个房间，房间里有些从杂志上剪下来的照片。他们被要求按照一定规则挑选一些照片出来。当他们进入房间干活的时候，房间里还有一个“托儿”，他也在做着同样的事情，只不过多了两个小动作，挠脸和抖腿。两位心理学家在房间里放了隐藏的摄像头，记录下了实验对象的动作。他们发现，这些人会不自主地模仿“托儿”，跟着挠脸或抖腿。而且，当“托儿”挠脸和抖腿的次数增加时，他们的动作频次也在增加。神经科学家们对这种奇妙的模仿行为做出了更深层次的解释。他们说，这是因为一种叫镜像神经元的细胞在发挥作用。在所有灵长类动物的运动皮质当中，都有这样的神经元。只要人们观察到其他人的动作，镜像神经元就会被激活。因为这些镜像神经元本身就是执行动作的神经基础，一旦被激活，它就可以开始自己的模仿表演了。所以，当一个人整天看到配偶的各种表情动作的时候，实际上他的大脑皮质里对应的镜像神经元也在进行相应的活动。朝夕相处的两个人，日复一日地进行着镜像神经元的相互激活，不知不觉中就形成了相似的神态和气质。可是这样的模仿，究竟有什么意义呢？前面说到的，那些纽约大学的心理学家们又做了第二组实验，他们发现模仿能增进好感。 在这个实验里，实验对象们被要求和同伴，也就是“托儿”一起互相描述他们挑出来的照片。实验对象们被划分成了两组。“托儿”和第一组实验对象交流的时候，会故意模仿这些人的表情和动作。但和另外一组实验对象交流的时候，“托儿”就不动声色了。交流结束以后，实验对象们需要完成一份调查问卷，调查内容是关于对“托儿”的喜爱程度的。实验结果表明，实验对象们更喜欢那些爱模仿自己的“变色龙”。这也就说，模仿这个行为是能够增进感情的。社会心理学家罗伯特  扎荣茨（Robert Zajonc）说，越是亲密的人，人们越容易和愿意去模仿。他的长期研究也表明，那些婚姻生活越美满的人，面部的相似程度也越高。比如，如果其中一方笑口常开，那么另外一个人的嘴角也可能出现非常类似的笑纹。看来，夫妻相真的有可能成为婚姻生活质量的验金石。好了，以上就是我想和你分享的关于夫妻相的奥秘。最后，我想把爱尔兰诗人罗伊·克里夫特（Roy Croft）写的一段诗送给你。我爱你，不光因为你的样子，还因为，和你在一起时，我的样子。愿大家都能在婚姻里成为幸福的变色龙！我们下期节目见！Source：1.我们常说的夫妻相真的有科学依据吗？2.为什么两个人在一起久了会有夫妻相？这个解释太牛了！3.心理科普| 两个人在一起呆久了，真的会越长越像吗？4.“变色龙效应”造就夫妻相。5.原来夫妻相才是最简单粗暴的“秀恩爱”！撰稿 | 程钰主持人 | 褚笑，前中央人民广播电台主持人，《新知日历》节目总监制主编 | 韩悦思节目运营 | 柳婷婷专辑图视觉创意 | 贺归昀主视觉 | 李芳舟

Moira speaks with Yale psychology professor John Bargh about “Before You Know It – The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”. And on Tech Nation Health, a radical new treatment to replace human skin following a serious burn. Dr. Denver Lough (“Low”), the President & CEO of PolarityTE, tells us how it works, and how a group of doctors left a hospital burn center to bring this new technology worldwide.

Moira speaks with Yale psychology professor John Bargh about “Before You Know It – The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”. And on Tech Nation Health, a radical new treatment to replace human skin following a serious burn. Dr. Denver Lough (“Low”), the President & CEO of PolarityTE, tells us how it works, and how a group of doctors left a hospital burn center to bring this new technology worldwide.

Aired Tuesday, 12 June 2018, 5:00 PM ESTAn Independent Movement to Activate "the Progressive Majority" - A Conversation with Nick Brana - Founder, and National Director of Movement for a People’s Party"The Republicans? They've sold their soul to the devil. Not the Democrats. They've just RENTED theirs." -- Swami BeyondanandaA couple of weeks ago, we had as our guest on Wiki Politiki Erik Fogg, whose book, Wedged: How You Became a Tool of the Partisan Political Establishment and How to Start Thinking for Yourself Again talks about how both political tribes are mobilized by fear and anger to take polarized, intractable positions. A recent book by a Yale professor John Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do, goes even further in suggesting that liberals can be made more conservative by invoking fear, and conservatives more liberal by creating a sense of safety.Which brings us to this week's guest, Nick Brana.Nick Brana is the founder and National Director of the Movement for a People’s Party, a coalition of progressive organizations for a "nationally-viable party for working people". Nick had been the National Political Outreach Coordinator with the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, where he lobbied the superdelegates and elected officials for Bernie, organized his political meetings and planned convention activities. He went on to become a founding member of Our Revolution and its first Electoral Manager, where he created an endorsement plan and assembled the candidates.However, in early 2017, Nick Brana quit Our Revolution and launched his own independent campaign to "draft Bernie" as an independent candidate, citing the intractability of the Democratic Party apparatus and their resistance to genuine systemic change. At a time when more and more people -- particularly young folks -- are turned off to both parties, can a "third party" become an actual "first party"?Will this party merely triangulate progressive voters, and ensure Donald Trump a second term? Or can the platform bring together progressives and populists who voted for Trump because the Democrats have been "tone deaf" to their needs? Can their platform create enough unity, coherence and "safety" to bring conservative populists on boards as well? What IS the strategy to take advantage of the growing disgust with the two parties that currently control our politics?Tune in to this lively discussion on how we the people can "overgrow" the current pay-to-play political duopoly this Tuesday, June 12th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET:Or, find us on the Wiki archives on Wednesday: http://wikipolitiki.com/archives/Read more about Nick Brana and Movement for a People's Party here.How you can support Wiki Politiki If you LOVE what you hear, and appreciate the mission of Wiki Politiki, "put your money where your mouse is" ...Join the "upwising" -- join the conversation, and become a Wiki Politiki supporter: http://wikipolitiki.com/join-the-upwising/Go ahead, PATRONIZE me! Support Wiki Politiki monthly through Patreon!

This week, Martha's guests are Jeannie Vanasco, Guy P. Harrison, John Bargh, and Steve Rushin.

Before You Know It with Dr. John BarghDr. John Bargh is a social and cognitive psychologist and the world’s leading expert on the #unconsciousmind. He is the James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology at Yale University and director of the ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation) Laboratory. Dr. John Bargh, the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a groundbreaking book, twenty years in the making, which gives us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior. http://beforeyouknowitbook.comWhere The Water Meets The Sand with Dr. Tyra ManningDr. Tyra Manning defies stereotypes associated with #mentalillness. Those who know her as a successful schoolteacher and administrator are surprised to learn of her long-time battle with addiction and clinical depression, which she faced both before and after her husband was killed in the Vietnam War. After retiring from a forty-year career in education, Dr. Manning has devoted her energies to comfort those suffering in silence, reduce the stigma associated with mental illness, and open doors to support and treatment. http://tyramanning.com

Claudia Hammond finds out why films are being made of residents of a care home in South West London. They all have dementia and the story of their lives is told through photos, interviews and music and their beneficial effects are being studied in a small NHS trial. Claudia meets 92 year old May and her daughter, Valerie to find out what the film has done for her and why this kind of reminiscence therapy is so effective. Claudia talks to psychologist John Bargh about the power of the unconscious mind, why sad music makes people spend more and how we can use our unconscious mind's susceptibility to our own advantage. And why a community organisation in Tyne and Wear called Citizens UK has brought together people from schools, mosques, churches, politicians and the NHS to ask what their top priority should be. Find out why they all voted for mental health and what they're going to do about it. Psychologist Dr Catherine Loveday of the University of Westminster also explains why just believing that you do less exercise than your friends is likely to make you die earlier even if it's not true and a she discusses a recent study investigating the therapists' habits that most annoy their clients.

Welcome back to the podcast! Today's guest is Pontus Leander. His research interests include motivation, goal pursuit and social cognition. In this episode we explore his professional and personal journey through academia. He shares insightful experiences and we ponder over what mindset is most helpful to navigate academia. Enjoy! Links to topics mentioned during the episode: http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4441010.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bargh