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Episode Summary In this episode of Think Thursday, we're diving into the psychology and neuroscience of reminiscing. Why does it feel so comforting to revisit our past? What is actually happening in our brains when we do it? And how can we intentionally use this experience to feel more grounded, present, and connected?This isn't just about nostalgia—it's about using our memories as a powerful tool for self-awareness, emotional regulation, and identity reinforcement. You'll learn why reminiscing matters, what research says about its benefits, and how to intentionally evoke it to support a life of peace, meaning, and alignment.In this episode, you'll learn:How the brain's default mode network supports self-reflection and memoryWhy reminiscing lights up the brain's reward system and releases dopamineThe therapeutic power of reminiscence and its effect on mood and stressFive ways to trigger positive, intentional reminiscingHow reminiscing supports personal growth, especially in midlife and beyondThe role of life review and reflection in building wisdom and inner calmResearch Highlights:Speer et al., 2014 (Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience): Positive memory recall activates the ventral striatum, part of the brain's reward system2013 study in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: Reminiscing increases self-esteem, social connection, and perceived life meaningMeta-analysis in Aging & Mental Health (2014): Structured reminiscence therapy improves mood and well-being in both clinical and non-clinical groupsHarvard Grant Study: Individuals who reflect on life with curiosity and compassion report higher satisfaction in later yearsErik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development: Life review in midlife and later years is a key developmental task for achieving wisdom and integrationPractice This Week:Take ten minutes to intentionally revisit a positive memory. Choose one of the following:Play a song from your younger yearsLight a candle or smell that reminds you of homeLook through old photographsHold a personal keepsakeCall a friend and share a “remember when” momentThen ask yourself:What strengths or values were alive in me during that memory?What part of myself am I reconnecting with?What could I bring forward into today?Reminiscing is not about living in the past. It's about building strength and clarity in the present by remembering who you've always been.Support the Show: If this episode resonated with you, consider sharing it with a friend or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps others find the show and keeps the conversation going.For more episodes, resources, and support for building a peaceful life through mindset, science, and habit change, visit www.mollywatts.com. ★ Support this podcast ★

"Part of the reason I stay super busy is bc if I stop to rest l'll ruminate. And if I ruminate, I start spiraling. And if I spiraling I'm like a nosediving plane" Sound familiar? Discover the ANSWER to WHY you get stuck in your most annoying perfectionist tendencies, like ruminating, catastrophizing, overthinking every small mistake etc. Plus the 6 reasons your perfectionist brain holds on to outdated habits,  how chronic stress impacts your brain's ability to change, the role of back and white thinking in reinforcing unhelpful neural pathways, why past experiences trick your brain into seeing danger everywhere and how to stop your worries from becoming self-fulfilling prophecies.  On paper, you've got it together— isn't it time you felt like it? Whether it's becoming much more DECISIVE in everything you do, stop playing out worst case scenarios in your head or JOYFULLY PRESENT AMBITIOUS again, Perfectionism Optimized, private 1-1 coaching gives you the life-long skills to *finally feel* as amazing on the inside as your life looks on the outside. Get your stress-free start today at https://courtneylovegavin.com/rewire TIMESTAMPS:00:00–How to finally take charge of ruminating02:16–Missed the last episode? Here's a quick recap04:06–What happens when your brain gets it wrong06:09–Why perfectionist brains resists learning from mistakes07:40–6 sneaky reasons your brain ignores new info08:23–How chronic stress keeps your brain stuck10:20–Why your brain clings to old patterns11:42–The hidden reason you avoid discomfort12:51–When your brain blows things out of proportion13:49–How black-and-white thinking is like wearing blinders15:19–Why past experiences warp your reactions19:34–How to update your brain so you can get unstuck21:09–One small shift to start seeing change today The first step in rewiring Resources Mentioned In Episode 250:Take your first step in rewiring Perfect Start Introductory SessionMagic Skill for Control of Emotions [Neuroscience Series #1] Perfectionism Rewired Ep. 248How Perfectionist Brain *Actually* Works [Neuroscience Series #2] Perfectionism Rewired Ep. 249When Taking A Few Deep Breaths Isn't Enough Perfectionism Rewired Ep. 192Will Save Your Sanity(might change your life) Perfectionism Rewired Ep. 193 Citations/Sources:Bar, M. (2009). The proactive brain: memory for predictions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 364(1521), 1235–1243. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0310Barrett, L. F., & Simmons, W. K. (2015). Interoceptive predictions in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(7), 419–429. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3950Braem, S., Coenen, E., Klaas Bombeke, Bochove, van, & Wim Notebaert. (2015). Open your eyes for prediction errors. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 15(2), 374–380. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-014-0333-4Clark, A. (2013). Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(3), 181–204. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x12000477Handley, A. K., Egan, S. J., Kane, R. T., & Rees, C. S. (2014). The relationships between perfectionism, pathological worry and generalised anxiety disorder. BMC Psychiatry, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244x-14-98Kummer, K., Mattes, A. & Stahl, J. Do perfectionists show negative, repetitive thoughts facing uncertain situations?. Curr Psychol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04409-3Lital Yosopov, Saklofske, D. H., Smith, M. M., Flett, G. L., & Hewitt, P. L. (2024). Failure Sensitivity in Perfectionism and Procrastination: Fear of Failure and Overgeneralization of Failure as Mediators of Traits and Cognitions. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 42(6), 705–724. https://doi.org/10.1177/07342829241249784Mattes, A., Mück, M., & Stahl, J. (2022). Perfectionism-related variations in error processing in a task with increased response selection complexity. Personality Neuroscience, 5. https://doi.org/10.1017/pen.2022.3‌McNally, G. P., Johansen, J. P., & Blair, H. T. (2011). Placing prediction into the fear circuit. *Trends in Neurosciences*, *34*(6), 283–292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2011.03.005‌Meyer, A., & Wissemann, K. (2020). Controlling parenting and perfectionism is associated with an increased error-related negativity (ERN) in young adults. *Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience*, *15*(1), 87–95. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa018‌Roy, M., Shohamy, D., Daw, N., Jepma, M., Wimmer, G. E., & Wager, T. D. (2014). Representation of aversive prediction errors in the human periaqueductal gray. *Nature Neuroscience*, *17*(11), 1607–1612. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3832‌ Perfectionism Rewired is committed to neuroscience truth and accuracy through a perfectionist affirming lens, offering cutting-edge research on perfectionism, neuroplasticity + interoception techniques for the practical perfectionist who wants to enjoy the life you've worked so hard to create instead of obsolete advice to "overcome your perfectionism"

J'observe à travers ma consultation que la confiance en soi est un problème de taille et qui revient souvent. Par manque de confiance, nous ne permettons pas d'avoir certaines ambitions, ce qui affecte l'orientation de carrière. Nous ne persistons pas devant la difficulté, voyant chaque défi comme une impasse définitive. Le manque de confiance affecte même notre moralité en devenant une personne amère qui n'adopte plus les mêmes standards moraux. Ça pourrait être une piste d'explication de l'origine d'un profil passif-agressif. Dans cet épisode, j'ai voulu aborder Alfred Bandura, un auteur majeur en psychologie. Le sentiment d'efficacité personnelle ne résume pas l'ensemble de la théorie sociale cognitive, mais c'est une composante importante. D'abord, le sentiment n'est pas l'efficacité, c'est un sentiment. Toutefois, ce sentiment influence directement les efforts que nous investissons. Bien entendu, ces efforts et notre détermination ont un impact sur le succès. Cela génère un cercle vertueux. Plus j'ai confiance en moi, plus je m'investis dans des projets. Plus je m'investis dans des projets, plus j'ai du succès, du succès qui m'aide à avoir encore plus confiance en moi. Une des grandes découvertes de Bandura est que nous pouvons influencer ce sentiment d'efficacité personnelle en nous et chez les autres autour de nous. Il propose des actions précises qui touchent les 4 grands volets de ce concept soit : Performance dans la tâche (un premier succès valide nos efforts et encourage) Apprentissage vicariant (apprendre en observant un expert dans l'action) Persuasion verbale (recevoir de la rétroaction par une personne crédible) État émotionnel (gérer sa pensée et son stress) Un des secrets du sentiment d'efficacité personnelle est aussi la précision. Dans cet épisode, j'aborde comment en venir à des objectifs spécifiques qui sauront nous aider à bâtir notre confiance. Ordre du jour 0m23: Introduction 12m32: Présentation du livre 20m36: Le concept du sentiment d'efficacité personnelle 36m06: Application pour façonner le sentiment d'efficacité personnelle 50m37: Réflexion personnelle Pour encore plus de détails, consulte la page web de l'épisode

You can get "Become Who You Are" here: http://designingthemind.org/becoming It's rare that you encounter a fresh take on a path as well-trodden as happiness. I've read a lot of books on the topic and I have to say that Ryan Bush's take is fresh and yet simultaneously ancient. I think this is part of the reason I'm so enthusiastic about it: it integrates a trend in academic philosophy that I've yet to see anyone else talk about: Virtue Ethics. This is an ethical approach to philosophy that goes all the way back to the ancients especially Socrates, Aristotle and the Stoics. Bush integrates this old esteemed tradition with very 21st century fields like Cognitive Science and neuroscience to produce a thought-provoking map of the good life that I can't recommend highly enough.  ____________________

Découvrez le livre NEUROSAPIENS ! Pour apprendre à créer rapidement et à moindre coût son podcast, c'est par ici ! Recherches et écriture : Thaïs MarquesProduction, animation, réalisation : Anaïs RouxInstagram : https://www.instagram.com/neurosapiens.podcast/neurosapiens.podcast@gmail.comProduit et distribué en association avec LACME Production.Références : Crone, E. A., & Konijn, E. A. (2018). Media use and brain development during adolescence. Nature Communications, 9(1), 588. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03126-xDienlin, T., & Johannes, N. (2020). The impact of digital technology use on adolescent well-being. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 22(2), 135–142. https://doi.org/10.31887/DCNS.2020.22.2/tdienlinHarris, B., Regan, T., Schueler, J., & Fields, S. A. (2020). Problematic Mobile Phone and Smartphone Use Scales: A Systematic Review. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 672. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00672Odgers, C. L., & Jensen, M. R. (2020). Annual Research Review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61(3), 336–348. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13190Orben, A. (2020). Teenagers, screens and social media: A narrative review of reviews and key studies. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 55(4), 407–414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-019-01825-4Orben, A., & Blakemore, S.-J. (2023). How social media affects teen mental health: A missing link. Nature, 614(7948), 410–412. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00402-9Orben, A., & Przybylski, A. K. (2019). The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(2), 173–182. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0506-1Orben, A., Przybylski, A. K., Blakemore, S.-J., & Kievit, R. A. (2022). Windows of developmental sensitivity to social media. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1649. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29296-3Panova, T., & Carbonell, X. (2018). Is smartphone addiction really an addiction? Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 7(2), 252–259. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.49Sherman, L. E., Greenfield, P. M., Hernandez, L. M., & Dapretto, M. (2018). Peer Influence Via Instagram: Effects on Brain and Behavior in Adolescence and Young Adulthood. Child Development, 89(1), 37–47. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12838Sherman, L. E., Hernandez, L. M., Greenfield, P. M., & Dapretto, M. (2018). What the brain ‘Likes': Neural correlates of providing feedback on social media. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 13(7), 699–707. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsy051Smith, A. R., Rosenbaum, G. M., Botdorf, M. A., Steinberg, L., & Chein, J. M. (2018). Peers influence adolescent reward processing, but not response inhibition. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(2), 284–295. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-018-0569-5

Emily Finn is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College. We talk about her research on neural fingerprinting, naturalistic stimuli, how Emily got into science, the year she spent in Peru before her PhD, advice for writing well, and much more.There are occasional (minor) audio disturbances when Emily's speaking. Sorry about that, still trying to figure out where they came from so that it won't happen again.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Supportive peer review0:03:25: Why study linguistics?0:11:05: Uncertainties about doing a PhD/taking time off0:18:05: Emily's year-and-a-half in Peru0:25:17: Emily's PhD0:29:34: Neural fingerprints0:49:25: Naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging1:24:01: How to write good scientific articles1:30:55: A book or paper more people should read1:34:58: Something Emily wishes she'd learnt sooner1:39:20: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtEmily's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/finn-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/finn-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/finn-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisode w/ Nachum Ulanovsky: https://geni.us/bjks-ulanovskyByrge & Kennedy (2019). High-accuracy individual identification using a “thin slice” of the functional connectome. Network Neuroscience.Burkeman (2021). Four thousand weeks: Time management for mortals.Finn, ... & Constable (2014). Disruption of functional networks in dyslexia: a whole-brain, data-driven analysis of connectivity. Biological psychiatry.Finn, Shen, ... & Constable (2015). Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity. Nature Neuroscience.Finn, ... & Constable (2018). Trait paranoia shapes inter-subject synchrony in brain activity during an ambiguous social narrative. Nature Communications.Finn, ... & Bandettini (2020). Idiosynchrony: From shared responses to individual differences during naturalistic neuroimaging. NeuroImage.Finn & Bandettini (2021). Movie-watching outperforms rest for functional connectivity-based prediction of behavior. NeuroImage.Finn (2021). Is it time to put rest to rest?. Trends in cognitive sciences.Finn & Rosenberg (2021). Beyond fingerprinting: Choosing predictive connectomes over reliable connectomes. NeuroImage.Grall & Finn (2022). Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: A media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.Hasson, ... & Malach (2004). Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during natural vision. Science.Hedge, Powell & Sumner (2018). The reliability paradox: Why robust cognitive tasks do not produce reliable individual differences. Behavior research methods.Sava-Segal, ... & Finn (2023). Individual differences in neural event segmentation of continuous experiences. Cerebral Cortex.

A growth mindset explains talent as a work-in-progress, which opens the door for change and progress. For example, a student with a growth mindset will study for their test because they know they're still learning new things. On the other hand, a fixed mindset suggests that your talents are set in stone. For example, a student with a fixed mindset may not study for a test, because they believe they're smart enough already. So, do you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? To help you discover that, we've made this video to help you identify the signs you have a growth mindset. Would you like to know more about what makes a mind strong? We also have a video on the signs you have a strong mind: https://youtu.be/D12JC55Nlyg Credits: Script Writer: Tristan Reed Script Editor: Kelly Soong VO: Amanda Silvera Animator: Kaitlynd Collins YouTube Manager: Cindy Cheong References: Dweck, C. & Yeager, D. (2019). Mindsets: A view from two eras. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 14(3): 481-496. Mangels et al. (2006). Why do beliefs about intelligence influence learning success? A social cognitive neuroscience model. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1(2): 75-86. Nussbaum, A. & Dweck, C. (2008). Defensiveness Versus Remediation: Self-Theories and Modes of Self-Esteem Maintenance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(5): 599-612. Yeager et al. (2019). A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement. Nature, 573: 364-369.

Your Perfectionistic Brain does NOT work the way you think it does. Your brain predicts *almost* everything you feel, think, do, and when it gets it wrong, it's called a prediction error. Get up to speed on prediction errors and how speaking Interoception will save your sanity as a perfectionist and might just change your life.9.5 out of 10 Perfectionists can't easily move on from mistakes. Are you one of them? Stop going through life illiterate and get fluent in the only language that makes you feel even better than your life looks inside  Perfectionism Optimized 1-1 coaching + in-depth personalized support rewiring your perfectionism Get your stress-free start today at https://courtneylovegavin.com/optimized PERFECTIONISM REWIRED EPISODE 193 TIMESTAMPS:00:00-Introduction 01:33-Misinformation About Perfectionism + How Your Brain Works01:47-Perfectionist Solutions Methodology Credibility and Scientific Citations03:06-IRL Perfectionist Client Testimonial: Overcoming Perfectionism04:33-Ruminating Perfectionist Thinking04:50-Perfectionist Misinterpretations in Professional Settings05:27-Perfectionist's Parenting Concerns and Self-Judgment05:42-Personal Impact of Perfectionist Thoughts05:57-Physical Manifestations of Perfectionist Anxiety06:18-Misunderstood Perfectionist Fears06:33-Boss's Positive Feedback Contrasting Perfectionist Prediction Error06:55-The Role of Brain Predictions in Perfectionist Thoughts07:21-Examining Sensory Data's Influence on Perfectionism07:31-Perfectionist Tendencies in Analyzing Mistakes07:55-The Role of Prediction Errors in Perfectionist Anxiety08:14-Science of Prediction Errors and Perfectionism08:39-Effectiveness of Predicting and Correcting in Perfectionism09:00-Brain's Predictive Processes and Perfectionism09:25-Reducing Uncertainty: Brain's Metabolic Efficiency09:28-Trippy Example of Brain's Prediction In Action09:36-Sensory Integration and Brain's Construction of Wetness10:06-Brain's Reality Construction Using Memories and Sensory Data10:18-Brain's Use of Sensory Data to Construct Reality10:56-Brain's Sensory Data Interpretation11:11-Brain's Guesswork in Processing Sensory Data11:24-Intristic Neural Network and Need for Quick Decision-Making11:49-Your Role in Interpreting Sensory Data11:53-Why Interoception Is Pivotal Perfectionists13:01-Difficulties in Implementing Interoceptive Skills13:28-Overcoming the Difficult Phase in Learning New Skills13:55-Importance of Perfectionist Interoception14:17-Perfectionists's Role vs Brain's Role in Interoception14:27-Are you Interoceptive Illiterate?14:41-Human Brain's Millisecond Decision-Making14:59-Brain's Predictive Nature15:12-Linking Perfectionism to Brain Predictions15:35-Dopamine as the Predictor Neurotransmitter15:52-Where Do Predictions Come From?16:14-Curating Your Perfectionist Information Diet16:29-Impact of Global PR and Information Control16:52-Profitability in Keeping Perfectionists Stuck, Suck + Sick17:11-Empowering Perfectionists for Change17:50-How To Improve Your Perfectionist Prediction Errors18:13-Real-Life Scenario and Prediction Errors18:30-Misinterpretation of Communication18:44-The Importance of Learning Interoception19:05-PreEmptive Prediction in Daily Life19:16-Anticipating Surprises19:47-Perfectionist Parenting and Prediction19:53-Recognizing Child's Behavioral Signs20:01-Fluency in Interoception Highly Credible Sources Referenced in Ep. 193 Include:Alexandria Meyer, Karl Wissemann, Controlling parenting and perfectionism is associated with an increased error-related negativity (ERN) in young adults, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 87–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa018Attwell D, Laughlin SB. An Energy Budget for Signaling in the Grey Matter of the Brain. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism doi:10.1097/00004647-200110000-00001Barrett, L., Simmons, W. Interoceptive Predictions in the Brain National Review Neurosciencehttps://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3950Jutta Stahl, Manuela Acharki, Miriam Kresimon, Frederike Völler, Henning Gibbons, Perfect error processing: Perfectionism-related variations in action monitoring and error processing mechanisms, International Journal of Psychophysiology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.06.002Kummer, K., Mattes, A. & Stahl, J. Do perfectionists show negative, repetitive thoughts facing uncertain situations?. Curr Psychol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04409-3Mattes, A., Mück, M., & Stahl, J. (2023). Perfectionism-related variations in error processing in a task with increased response selection complexity. Personality neuroscience, 5, e12. https://doi.org/10.1017/pen.2022.3Ventura-Bort C, Wendt J and Weymar M (2021) The Role of Interoceptive Sensibility and Emotional Conceptualization for the Experience of Emotions. Front. Psychol. 12:712418. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712418

We're rounding off our little mini-series on “theory of mind” in autism research with episode 5: “New Paradigms, New Values.”You can find a (not Substack-generated) transcript of the episode, as well as a music-free remix, here.We will be on hiatus over the holidays, while we cook up some more episodes about the relationship between empathy and autism. But in the meantime, I'll continue to post here occasionally to let you all know about other fascinating audio projects that tackle issues related to autism and disability.“New Paradigms, New Values”In the last several episodes, we've explored the bizarre history of autism research focusing on “theory of mind deficits.” So at this point, you're probably wondering: “where do we go from here?”We don't have all the answers, but in this episode, Travis and Joe—from the previous episode—describe some fascinating new avenues for autism research, which promise to help us understand autistic perspectival differences without invoking so-called “theory of mind deficits.” Plus, Travis compares the two most common paradigms in autism research (the “pathology paradigm,” and the “neurodiversity paradigm”), and offers some advice for folks who want to start reading up on the philosophy of autism.Topics Discussed* A potential problem with our critique of “theory of mind deficit” research: some autistic people find the theory of mind deficit view of autism helpful for making sense of challenging experiences. (00:29)* A reminder about the problems associated with the “theory of mind deficit” view of autism; in particular, the view dehumanizes autistic people. (02:41)* Problems with Barnbaum's influential book The Ethics of Autism (2008), which assumes the theory of mind deficit view of autism. (04:05)* But again, some autistic people find the “theory of mind deficit” view of autism helpful. (05:54)* So, we need good alternatives for understanding and talking about autistic social differences. (07:41)* The bad news: there's no single unifying “theory of autism” that can simply replace the “theory of mind deficit” view. (08:25)* The good news: there are several alternative research programs that promise to help us better understand autistic people's experiences with perspective-taking. (09:07)* A sociological alternative: the double empathy problem. (10:16)* A psychological alternative: monotropism. (12:20)* Monotropism isn't just “an autistic thing.” (15:41)* Why the double empathy problem and monotropism could both be true (they're not in competition with each other). (17:06)* A physiological alternative: differences in interoception. (19:04) * What all of these alternative theories have in common: they don't have to frame autism in terms of deficits. This focus reflects a shift in value assumptions in autism research. (21:13)* Science can't avoid making some value-laden assumptions. Feminist philosophers of science have been talking about this issue for decades. (22:12)* An example of a value assumption in science and medicine: “classic” heart attack symptoms. (25:02)* Travis contrasts the “pathology paradigm” in autism research with the “neurodiversity paradigm” in autism research. (25:51)* Travis gives an example of how the pathology paradigm can distort autism researchers' interpretation of data. (29:12)* We shouldn't merely “study autistic differences”; we need to study autistic differences with the ultimate goal of improving autistic people's well-being, all while paying close attention to what autistic people say they need. (With a quick call-back to Chloe Farahar.) (33:07)* Travis explains how philosophy can contribute to autism research. (36:21)* But philosophers need to be careful! Travis has advice. (37:50)* Look-ahead to our next topic: empathy and autism. (40:26)Sources Mentioned* Barnbaum, The Ethics of Autism (2008).* Milton, “On the ontological status of autism: the ‘double empathy problem',” Disability and Society, Volume 27, Issue 6 (2012). https://kar.kent.ac.uk/62639/1/Double%20empathy%20problem.pdf* More recent research supporting the “double empathy problem” hypothesis includes:* Morrison, et al., “Outcomes of real-world social interaction for autistic adults paired with autistic compared to typically developing partners,” Autism, Volume 24, Issue 5 (2020). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31823656/* Sheppard, et al., “Mindreading beliefs in same- and cross-neurotype interactions,” Autism (2023). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13623613231211457* Milton, et al., “The ‘double empathy problem': Ten years on,” Autism, Volume 26, Issue 8 (2022). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13623613221129123* Crompton, et al., “Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective,” Autism, Volume 24, Issue 7 (2020). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7545656/* Murray, et al., “Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism,” Autism, Volume 9, Issue 2 (2005). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362361305051398* Dwyer, “Revisiting Monotropism” (blog post from 2021): https://www.autisticscholar.com/monotropism/* Joe mentions that autistic people might tend to have heightened sympathetic bodily reactions to others' emotions, but also have more trouble processing those sympathetic bodily reactions (probably because of alexithymia). There is a bunch of research on empathic arousal, alexithymia, and interoception, but as a start:* Fletcher-Watson and Bird, “Autism and empathy: What are the real links?” Autism, Volume 24, Issue 1 (2020). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1362361319883506* Kimber, et al., “Autistic People's Experience of Empathy and the Autistic Empathy Deficit Narrative,” Autism in Adulthood (2023). https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/aut.2023.0001?download=true&journalCode=aut* Fan, et al., “Empathic arousal and social understanding in individuals with autism: evidence from fMRI and ERP measurements” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 9, Issue 8 (2014). https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/9/8/1203/2375393* Butera, et al., “Relationships between alexithymia, interoception, and emotional empathy in autism spectrum disorder,” Autism, Volume 27, Issue 3 (2023). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35833505/* Garfinkel, et al., “Discrepancies between dimensions of interoception in autism: Implications for emotion and anxiety,” Biological Psychology, 114 (2016).* For more on the feminist critique of the “value-free ideal of science,” see Crasnow, "Feminist Perspectives on Science," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.). https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-science/* For more on “male norms” in medicine, see: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-march-11-2019-1.5049277/there-s-a-gender-gap-in-medical-data-and-it-s-costing-women-their-lives-says-this-author-1.5049286* Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies (2021). https://neuroqueer.com/neuroqueer-heresies/* The paper in which researchers rely on the “pathology paradigm” when interpreting their results: Hu, et al., “Right Temporoparietal Junction Underlies Avoidance of Moral Transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder,” Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 41, Issue 8 (2021). https://www.jneurosci.org/content/41/8/1699* Travis's reading recommendations (to get started with the philosophy of autism):* Monique Botha (I love their paper, “Academic, Activist, or Advocate?” in Frontiers in Psychology (2021) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727542/full)* Damian Milton (see his two “double empathy” problem paper, listed above)* Ian Hacking* “Making People Up,” London Review of Books, Volume 28, Issue 16 (2006). https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n16/ian-hacking/making-up-people* “Kinds of People: Moving Targets,” Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 151 (2007). https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2043/pba151p285.pdf* “Autistic autobiography,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Volume 364, Issue 1522 (2009). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2008.0329* Robert Chapman* They have a new book out, titled Empire of Normality (2023)! https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348667/empire-of-normality/* “The Reality of Autism: on the metaphysics of disorder and diversity,”Philosophical Psychology, Volume 66, Issue 6 (2020). https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/241133636/Reality_of_autism_final_edit.pdfCreditsHosting, Research, Fact-Checking, Script-Editing: Amelia Hicks and Joanna LawsonGuests: Travis LaCroix and Joe GoughMusic and Audio Production: Amelia HicksThank-YousMany thanks to Travis LaCroix and Joe Gough for speaking with us—again!—about new avenues in autism research, and about the roles of values in autism science.I also want to offer special thanks to the philosopher Barry Lam (of Hi-Phi Nation) for his mentorship. Barry organized a fantastic workshop for philosophers interested in podcasting—which is how Joanna and I met each other. And thanks, too, to Joseph Fridman, who has also provided incredible ongoing mentorship while Joanna and I put this project together. Speaking of Joanna—I want to highlight just how much support she has offered me over the past couple years. Joanna is an amazing editor, explainer, and provider of moral support, and she has made NeuroDiving so much better. Thank you Joanna!

There is increasing international interest in applying social cognitive factors to medical students' career development programs. This study reveals their relationship with academic satisfaction, emphasizing that they play a larger role than demographic differences.   Read the accompanying article here: https://asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.15070

Join Azaii and Phil as they do a deep dive into how the AAMC will test personality on the MCAT. We are wrapping up personality with Skinner, Bandura and Mischel. You don't want to miss this one! About Jack Westin - The team at Jack Westin is dedicated to a single goal: giving students the highest quality learning resources. Jack Westin understands that students can't crush the MCAT without the perfect blend of critical thinking and fundamental science knowledge. To this end, Jack Westin is dedicated to providing students with cutting edge comprehensive tools, courses, and practice materials. The Jack Westin MCAT science and CARS courses, taught by the world's best and most engaging MCAT instructors, are designed to do more than just teach students the MCAT—it supercharges studying and encourages lifelong learning. Want to learn more? Shoot us a text at 415-855-4435 or email us at podcast@jackwestin.com!

Drama queens, crybabies, whiners, wet blankets – Highly Sensitive People (HSP) have been labelled all of these things and more, when the truth is, there's a lot of things most people fail to understand about the concept. HSP was originated by Dr. Elaine N. Aron (1996), and it refers to an inherent, biological predisposition some people have to process and perceive information on a much deeper level. If you're an HSP, then you think and feel things with greater intensity, in a way that many others can't understand. Sometimes, HSP are mistaken as empaths. Do you know someone who might be an HSP? Do you agree with these signs? #hsp #highlysensitivepeson #psych2go Join Our Psych2Go Premium Podcast Now! https://psych2go.supercast.com Credits Script Writer: Chloe Avanasa Script Editor: Rida Batool & Kelly Soong VO: Amanda Silvera Animator: Winshard - https://www.youtube.com/user/NathanShawnRockheart YouTube Manager: Cindy Cheong Special Thanks: WeTheKim https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0tDOJ1f_eV6E67_WfDjEQ References and sources: Aron, E. N. (1996). Counseling the highly sensitive person. Counseling and Human Development, 28, 1-7. Piechowski, M. M. (1997). Emotional giftedness: The measure of intrapersonal intelligence. Handbook of gifted education, 2, 366-381. Aron, E. (2013). The highly sensitive person. Kensington Publishing Corp.. Sand, I. (2016). Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World: How to Create a Happy Life. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Zeff, T. (2004). The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an Overstimulating World. New Harbinger Publications. Aron, A., Aron, E., Jagiellowicz, J., Xu, X., Cao, G., Feng, T., & Weng, X. (2010) The trait of sensory processing sensitivity and neural responses to changes in visual scenes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 38-47. Interested in animating for Psych2Go, contact editorial@psych2go.net

Avant la saison 7 de Neurosapiens, je vous propose de (re)découvrir des épisodes! Ce mois-ci focus sur l'amour et le plaisir! Découvrez le livre NEUROSAPIENS, sorti le 26 janvier aux éditions Les Arènes ! Pour apprendre à créer rapidement et à moindre coût son podcast, c'est par ici ! Dans le monde entier et de tout temps, les gens aiment. Les mythes et légendes portent sur l'amour et son contraire. Les anthropologues ont découvert que l'amour romantique existait dans plus de 170 sociétés humaines ! L'amour semble être la pierre angulaire de notre espèce mais aussi de bien des espèces animales. Dans cet épisode, nous répondrons aux questions suivantes :  Que se passe-t-il dans le cerveau quand on tombe amoureux ?  L'amour dure-t-il réellement 3 ans ? Et pourquoi tombe-t-on amoureux d'une personne plutôt qu'une autre ? ____________ Si vous souhaitez avoir un éclairage neuro sur un sujet en particulier de la vie quotidienne, de notre fonctionnement, écrivez-moi à neurosapiens.podcast@gmail.com Production, animation, réalisation et illustration : Anaïs Roux Le podcast en version blog : www.neurosapiens.fr A bientôt pour un nouvel épisode ! ____________ SOURCES Bartels A, Zeki S. The neural basis of romantic love. Neuroreport. 2000 Nov 27;11(17):3829-34. doi: 10.1097/00001756-200011270-00046. PMID: 11117499. Acevedo BP, Aron A, Fisher HE, Brown LL. Neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2012 Feb;7(2):145-59. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsq092. Epub 2011 Jan 5. PMID: 21208991; PMCID: PMC3277362. Insel TR, Winslow JT, Wang Z, Young LJ. Oxytocin, vasopressin, and the neuroendocrine basis of pair bond formation. Adv Exp Med Biol. 1998;449:215-24. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4871-3_28. PMID: 10026808. Cormier, Z. Gene switches make prairie voles fall in love. Nature (2013). S. Stroope et al., Marital characteristics and the sexual relationships of U.S. older adults: an analysis of national social life, health, and aging project data, in Arch. Sex. Behav., vol. 44, pp. 233-247, 2015. B. P. Acevedo et al., Neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love, in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, vol. 7, pp. 145-159, 2012. K. D. O'Leary et al., Is long-term love more than a rare phenomenon ? If so, what are its correlates ? in Social Psychology and Personality Science, vol. 3, pp. 241-249, 2012. Insel, T. R., and Hulihan, T. (1995). A gender-specific mechanism forpair bonding: Oxytocin and partner preference formation in mo-nogamous voles. Behav. Neurosci. 109, 782–789. Insel, T. R., and Shapiro, L. E. (1992). Oxytocin receptor distributionreflects social organization in monogamous and polygamousvoles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 5981–5985 Helen Fisher, Why We Love : The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love, Henry Holt, 2004 Helen Fisher, Why Him? Why Her? : Finding Real Love By Understanding Your Personality Type, Oneworld Publications UK-Commonwealth, 2009.  Musique d'intro KEEP ON GOING Musique proposée par La Musique Libre Joakim Karud - Keep On Going :https://youtu.be/lOfg0jRqaA8 Joakim Karud : https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud

Almost everywhere you turn in health communication—really, in any kind of communication — you'll find Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) at the root of some pretty fundamental truths about how human behavior is influenced by others and by the world around us. While you may never have worked on a campaign or intervention that was specifically designed with the theory itself in mind, you've probably incorporated dozens of tactics and strategies based on SCT.In this episode, we unpack its six main constructs and give a shoutout to the many things it has influenced, from entertainment education to celebrity product endorsements to cancer support groups to social media. And don't forget Bobo the Doll… that famous experiment you probably learned about in Psych 101 that was one of the things that formed the basis of SCT's development by social psychologist Albert Bandura.Resources:The theory heard 'round the world (apa.org)Social Cognitive Theory: Definition and Examples (thoughtco.com)Diagram of Social Cognitive TheoryBobo doll experiment - WikipediaBobo doll experiment - WikipediaExamples of SCT in use:Sebastian, A. T., Rajkumar, E., Tejaswini, P., Lakshmi, R., & Romate, J. (2021). Applying social cognitive theory to predict physical activity and dietary behavior among patients with type-2 diabetes. Health psychology research, 9(1), 24510. Chirico A., Lucidi F., Merluzzi T., Alivernini F., Laurentiis M., Botti G., Giordano A. A meta-analytic review of the relationship of cancer coping self-efficacy with distress and quality of life. Oncotarget. 2017; 8: 36800-36811. Retrieved from  Story, C. R., Knutson, D., Brown, J. B., Spears-Laniox, E., Harvey, I. S., Gizlice, Z., & Whitt-Glover, M. C. (2017). Changes in social support over time in a faith-based physical activity intervention. Health education research, 32(6), 513–523.Wang, H., & Singhal, A. (2021). Theorizing entertainment-education: A complementary perspective to the development of entertainment theory. In P. Vorderer, & C. Klimmt (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Entertainment Theory (pp. 819-838). New York: Oxford University Press.Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you!For more information, visit the Health Comm Central website at: http://www.HealthCommCentral.com© 2022 - 2023 Karen Hilyard, Ph.D. Connect with me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/health-comm-central/Twitter: @HealthCommCtrlInstagram: @health.comm.central

Die Themen in den Wissensnachrichten: +++ Waldzustand 2022 unverändert +++ Alternativer Body-Mass-Index entwickelt +++ Komplimente machten tut einem auch selbst gut +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:Ergebnisse der Waldzustandserhebung 2022/ Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, 21.03.2022Multiomic signatures of body mass index identify heterogeneous health phenotypes and responses to a lifestyle intervention/ Nature Medicine, 20.03.2023Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing/ Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 28.02.2023More than 1000 artifacts in Metropolitan Museum of Art catalog linked to alleged looting and trafficking figures/ ICIJ, 20.03.2023A self-rotating, single-actuated UAV with extended sensor field of view for autonomous navigation/ Science Robotics, 15.03.2023@thehistoryguy/ Twitter 19.03.2023**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.**********Weitere Wissensnachrichten zum Nachlesen: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/nachrichten

Did you know that mindfulness practice can shrink the amygdala which is the part of the brain that is responsible for fight, flight or freeze? While I know the benefits of mindfulness, I sometimes struggle to actually practice it. But several years ago, I was able to finally start on my mindfulness journey - by using food! This can be done with any type of food but I particularly love using berries or chocolate. Take a listen to learn how to use this technique…The topics I cover in this episode are:How mindfulness with food can helpI run through an exercise with you from ‘The Coping Skills for Kids Workbook' on mindful eatingHow I used this strategy during lockdown to help my clientsPlease keep in mind that clients may have food allergies or sensitivities so I encourage you to check with families before you do this activity. And remember, do not forget about yourself, take a few minutes for you and have a little fun!—Resources mentioned in the podcastTaren, A. A., Gianaros, P. J., Greco, C. M., Lindsay, E. K., Fairgrieve, A., Brown, K. W., … Creswell, J. D. (2015). Mindfulness meditation training alters stress-related amygdala resting state functional connectivity: a randomized controlled trial. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(12), 1758–1768. http://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsv066About The Host - Janine HalloranJanine Halloran is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, an author, a speaker, an entrepreneur and a mom. As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Janine has been working primarily with children and adolescents for over 15 years. She loves to create products and resources, so she started two businesses to support families and professionals who work with children and teens. ‘Coping Skills for Kids' provides products and resources to help kids learn to cope with their feelings in safe and healthy ways. It's the home of the popular Coping Cue Cards, decks of cards designed to help kids learn and use coping skills at home or at school. Janine's second business ‘Encourage Play' is dedicated to helping kids learn and practice social skills in the most natural way - through play! Encourage Play has free printables, as well as digital products focused on play and social skills.Coping Skills for Kids - https://copingskillsforkids.comEncourage Play - https://www.encourageplay.comInterested in reading my books? The Coping Skills for Kids Workbook - https://store.copingskillsforkids.com/collections/coping-skills-for-kids-workbook/products/coping-skills-for-kids-workbook-digital-versionSocial Skills for Kids - https://store.copingskillsforkids.com/collections/encourage-play/products/social-skills-for-kids-workbookConnect with Janine on Social MediaInstagram: @copingskillsforkidsFacebook: facebook.com/copingskillsforkids and facebook.com/encourageplayYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JanineHalloranEncouragePlay

In Episode 6, Dr. Nally dives into willpower, hope and how this relates to motivation. He talks about the amygdala and it's effect on cravings, addiction and the autonomic nervous system. Listen in as he gives 5 steps to controlling anxiety, panic & cravings. How can a ketogenic lifestyle help irritable bowel? Find out on today's podcast. References: 1. Berenz EC, Vujanovic AA, Coffey SF, Zvolensky MJ. Anxiety sensitivity and breath-holding duration in relation to PTSD symptom severity among trauma exposed adults. J Anxiety Disord. 2012 Jan;26(1):134-9. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.10.004. Epub 2011 Oct 17. PMID: 22047652; PMCID: PMC3254809. 2. McKay, M., Wood, J.C. and Brantley, J. (2007) The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook. New Harbinger, Oakland. 3. Van Dijk, T. A. (2013). The field of Epistemic Discourse Analysis. Discourse Studies, 15(5), 497–499. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445613501448 4. The Human Amygdala, by Paul J. Whalen & Elizabeth A. Phelps (2009) 5. Molecules of Emotion The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine, by Candace B. Pert (1997) 6.Wibowo, E., Wong, S.T.S., Wassersug, R.J. et al. Sexual Function After Voluntary Castration. Arch Sex Behav 50, 3889–3899 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02094-6 7. Britta K. Hölzel, James Carmody, Karleyton C. Evans, Elizabeth A. Hoge, Jeffery A. Dusek, Lucas Morgan, Roger K. Pitman, Sara W. Lazar, Stress reduction correlates with structural changes in the amygdala, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 11–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsp034 8 . Lowen MBO, et al. Effect of hypnotherapy and educational intervention on brain response to viscerla stimulation in the irritable bowel syndrome. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2013 June ; 37(12): 1184–1197. doi:10.1111/apt.12319. 9. Sumithran P., Prendergast L. A., Delbridge E., Purcell K., Shulkes A., Kriketos A., et al. . (2011). Long-term persistence of hormonal adaptations to weight loss. N. Engl. J. Med. 365, 1597–1604. 10.1056/NEJMoa1105816 10. Transforming Therapy by Gil Boyne (1989). #DocTalk #LimbicSystem #amygdala #Cravings # Anxiety #PanicAttacks #IBS #PrinciplesOfLife #DeepThoughts #ChangeYourThoughtsChangeYourLife #ChronicIllness #ChronicDisease #ObesityMedicineSpecialist #HormoneSpecialist #ClinicalHypnotherapist #JustKeepEsterifying #WhoIsListeningAnyway #DocMuscles #DocMusclesLife #LeadFollowOrGetOutOfMyWay #DocTalk #LiftRunShootKetoForLife #KeepHammering #ImNotDeadYet #Keto #Carnivore #Ketogenic #BaconMakesYourPantsFallOff

Cheerleading mutant. It sounds pretty awful, but it's actually a good thing. Because that optimism and gratitude help make your brain healthier and life better. That gives you the sort of cheerleading persona, but where does the mutant come in? Hang on and we're going to tell you . . . First let's define gratitude “Gratitude is associated with a personal benefit that was not intentionally sought after, deserved, or earned but rather because of the good intentions of another person” (Emmons & McCullough, 2004). Arthur C. Brooks wrote in an article called, “Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier.” ‘Beyond rotten circumstances, some people are just naturally more grateful than others. A 2014 article in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience identified a variation in a gene (CD38) associated with gratitude. Some people simply have a heightened genetic tendency to experience, in the researchers' words, “global relationship satisfaction, perceived partner responsiveness and positive emotions (particularly love).” That is, those relentlessly positive people you know who seem grateful all the time may simply be mutants.” Though we may not have those genes, we can make the choice to become happier by working on being more grateful. It's like that smiling thing, we talked about ages ago (last month) where if you really smile and move all your facial muscles, your brain gets tricked into thinking you're happy. Brooks says, “If grinning for an uncomfortably long time like a scary lunatic isn't your cup of tea, try expressing gratitude instead. According to research published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, gratitude stimulates the hypothalamus (a key part of the brain that regulates stress) and the ventral tegmental area (part of our “reward circuitry” that produces the sensation of pleasure).” Martin Seligman, the founder of positive psychology, believes that if you write notes to people telling them you're grateful for them, it makes you happier. That outgoing gratitude makes you more positive. He suggests writing two a day. According to positive psychology.com's Madhuleena Roy Chowdhyr, “Simple practices like maintaining a gratitude journal, complimenting the self, or sending small tokens and thank you notes can make us feel a lot better and enhance our mood immediately. Couple studies have also indicated that partners who expressed their thankfulness to each other often, could sustain their relationships with mutual trust, loyalty, and had long-lasting happy relationships.” “It was revealed that the reason why some of us are naturally more grateful than others, is the neurochemical differences at the Central Nervous System. People who express and feel gratitude have a higher volume of grey matter in the right inferior temporal gyrus (Zahn, Garrido, Moll, & Grafman, 2014).” The article goes on to say that gratitude lessens pain, improves the quality of your sleep, gets rid ‘of toxic” emotions and helps anxiety, depression and stress regulation. SOURCES! https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/01/26/could-gratitude-your-genes/jEFJBo92dxOHLa1trSmDKN/story.html https://positivepsychology.com/neuroscience-of-gratitude/ https://positivepsychology.com/neuroscience-of-gratitude/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-warned-someone-secretly-living-27635233 SHOUT OUT! The music we've clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. Here's a link to that and the artist's website. Who is this artist and what is this song?  It's “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free. WE HAVE EXTRA CONTENT ALL ABOUT LIVING HAPPY OVER HERE! It's pretty awesome. AND we have a writing tips podcast called WRITE BETTER NOW! We have a podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, which we stream live on Carrie's Facebook and Twitter and YouTube on Fridays. Her Facebook and Twitter handles are all carriejonesbooks or carriejonesbook. But she also has extra cool content focused on writing tips here. Carrie is reading one of her poems every week on CARRIE DOES POEMS. And there you go! Whew! That's a lot! Here's the link. Write Better Now - Writing Tips podcast for authors and writers loving the strange the podcast about embracing the weird Carrie Does Poems

On today's episode, I inteviewed Barbara Baum Freethy, M.Ed., a Social Cognitive Therapist with a specialty in working with neurodivergent children and adults.Over the past 40 years Barbara has been a teacher, developmental evaluator, play therapist, individual psychotherapist and parent coach. She is a certified CPS Provider (Collaborative and Proactive Solutions Model developed by Ross Greene, PhD) and currently meets virtually with parents and families across the country. Barbara also developed Transdisciplinary Workshops, Inc. organizing over 200 continuing education events for professionals and parents wanting to learn more about cognitive diversity, psychology and mental health.In this interview I spoke with Barbara about the basics of CPS, how people can use CPS to better connect with their partners and their children. And we also talked about some ways to listen reflectively in order to understand each other's concerns to create connection, rather than deflecting and/or correcting each other's concerns, which tends to lead to disconnection, stress, and reactivity.Barbara lives in coastal Maine where she enjoys traveling to local islands as well as sharing her great interest in geometric origami.She can be reached at Barbara@transdis.comAnd you can listen to my other podcast, the Once Upon an Upset Podcast for kids and parents at OnceUponAnUpset.com.

Last time, we discussed the importance of loosening our attachment to our beliefs in order to have more productive discussions with people who disagree with us. Loosening our attachment to one belief in particular can alleviate mental suffering, boost our productivity through flow, and help us experience transcendence. What am I talking about?I'm talking about rejecting the idea of the self. No, I don't mean those experiments where someone tries a series of progressively stranger tasks in order to become desensitized to the sting of rejection. I'm talking about letting go of the concept of the self completely.The Self Is an IllusionFrench philosopher René Descartes once famously said, “Cogito ergo sum”—I think, therefore I am. Or to be more precise, “Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum”—I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.Some philosophers and neuroscientists argue that Descartes' statement may be a non-sequitur, and the insecurity of needing affirmation of self-existence is likely in vain. According to Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, the idea of a stable, continuous self is an illusion, and a sizeable body of neuroscience research affirms this viewpoint.The self is likely a social construct consisting of our values, interests, hopes, fears, dreams, and relationships. If the self doesn't exist, any attacks on our personal character are rendered meaningless.In an amusing scene from Friends, Rachel and Monica take offense when Phoebe suggests that Rachel is a pushover and Monica is high maintenance. When Rachel and Monica counter that Phoebe is flaky, Phoebe remains unbothered and concedes that she is indeed flaky.How exactly is this illusion created?In his book No Self, No Problem, Chris Niebauer explains that the left side of the brain is responsible for processing language, interpreting meaning, and crafting stories. Consider the word ‘book.' What exactly does it mean? We might say it's a medium for recording information with writing and images, often bound by a cover.But we can't assign a quality that is universal to all books. Language is a tool that we use in order to interpret and understand reality; it gives us the illusion that the names we assign to things have actual meaning. But these names are simply shorthands or proxies to understand our surroundings.Perhaps René Magritte was trying to convey a similar idea in his infamous painting The Treachery of Images, which features the phrase “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (French for "This is not a pipe") under the image of a tobacco pipe. Explaining the reasoning behind his painting, Magritte said:The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture ‘This is a pipe,' I'd have been lying!The pipe in the painting is not an actual pipe but a visual representation of one. To borrow from Polish-American scholar Alfred Korzybski, “The word is not the thing.”Niebauer points out that the illusion of the self is similar to that of a mirage in a desert—you observe, visualize, and experience it; it's just not actually there. If you try to answer the question “Who am I?,” your left brain will likely come up with a multitude of categories to define your selfhood such as gender, occupation, religion, values, and interests.But remove categories from the equation, and it becomes significantly harder to pin down the essence of who you are. The “I” is an illusion extrapolated from the language the left brain uses to process reality.Our left brains even assign meaning to various visual inputs. The Rorschach inkblot test is a way to conceptualize how this works. The Rorschach asks users to look at inkblot patterns on paper and report what they see. The act of ascribing meaning to these random images is a way to look at how the left brain works in real-time.Given an identical inkblot image, two people can have vastly different interpretations—informed by their own individual reference frames. Recognizing patterns can be helpful but can also lead to unnecessary suffering. Let's consider a real-world example.If an employee sees her fellow coworkers congregated together in the break room while whispering and casting glances in her direction, she may assume that her colleagues are conspiring against her. But they could just as well be planning a surprise in her honor.Our brains seek out patterns to explain reality. But these patterns only exist in our minds, and we need to realize that in order to reduce mental suffering.What's the antidote?How then can we quiet our left brains? If the left brain is the language processing center, then the right brain is the spatial center responsible for movement-based activities. Yoga and exercise are both great ways to tap into right-brain consciousness. The right brain is also responsible for our sense of intuition or that “gut feeling” we get when we have a hunch but can't exactly explain the reason for it.Practicing compassion and gratitude are two additional ways to engage your right brain. Buddhism defines compassion as “the ability to see another person as ourselves.” Compassion originates in the RTPJ, which sounds like a Myers-Briggs personality type but isn't. The RTPJ, or right temporoparietal junction, allows us to consider things from someone else's point of view.Gratitude also activates the right brain. A 2014 study published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that individuals who regularly practiced gratitude had more gray matter volume in the right inferior temporal gyrus. So the next time you find yourself stuck in rush-hour traffic or the middle of a rainstorm, remember that your perception of these experiences as ‘unfortunate' is simply a byproduct of one half of your brain. Rejecting this interpretation and replacing it with gratitude for the time to yourself will help prevent needless stress, anxiety, and mental suffering.In the same way that quieting the left brain can have health benefits, so too can deactivating the default mode network (DMN), which comprises several regions of the brain. The DMN is involved in activities of “wakeful rest” such as daydreaming or planning for the future. Research suggests that deactivating the DMN can help reduce stress and the risk of developing dementia.Uitwaaien, the Dutch term for unwinding, refers to the practice of spending time in natural environments and has been proposed as a method to modulate DMN hyperactivity. Along a similar vein, a 2019 study examined how playing sports can help athletes cut through “brain static” in order to better interpret audio inputs. Researchers hypothesized that the athletes' ability to tune out background noise could help prevent injuries and cardiovascular disease.Tapping Into Flow Means Letting GoAnother reason to reject the self is to boost productivity by tapping into flow, that state of being “in the zone.” When you refer to yourself as “I”, you invoke the ego (a construct of the left brain), but ego death allows us to focus more intently on creative pursuits.In order to tap into flow, we have to let go of our sense of self. That means releasing ourselves of any doubts, anxieties, fears, or insecurities. Flow is necessary for mastery of creative, artistic, and athletic endeavors.C. Wilson Meloncelli describes flow as a state between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. In other words, flow lies somewhere between “fight or flight” and “rest and digest.” Flow occurs when you are disengaged from your sense of self and work becomes effortless.Athletes, artists, and musicians frequently tap into the flow state when practicing their craft. Wide receiver Jerry Rice, soccer legend Pelé, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and violinist Itzhak Perlman are all prime examples. Author and coach Brad Stulberg explains,Releasing from such a tight attachment to one's self is a hallmark of flow, or that highly sought after state of being fully in the zone. Losing oneself is also the goal of most spiritual disciplines. (And athletic and creative ones, too.) The more you forget about yourself, the better you'll feel, the better you'll do, and the better you'll be.It's no wonder then that self-absorption is strongly correlated with clinical depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. And the modern-day ethos unfortunately encourages self-absorption through influencer culture and appeals to the importance of building a personal brand.But Stulberg offers a couple ways to escape the perpetual cycle of self-consumption:Pursue mastery in any discipline: In his book Drive, Daniel Pink explains that autonomy, mastery, and purpose are deeply critical to high performance and life satisfaction. Psychologist Carol Ryff discovered that people who exhibited “a feeling of continued development” ranked higher on measures of life satisfaction and self-esteem than those who did not.Practice kindness: While devoting oneself to mastery is immensely powerful, devoting oneself to others may be mightier still. Sonya Lyubomirsky, one of the world's foremost happiness researchers, finds that individuals who regularly engage in volunteering, mentoring, coaching, or writing letters of gratitude report more positive emotions, both in the short-term and long-term. Psychologist Daryl Van Tongeren has corroborated her findings, reporting that altruistic acts give people a sense of meaning in their lives.When we take our attention off ourselves and our personal problems and dedicate ourselves to helping someone else, we gain so much in return.— Kathryn LubowLose Yourself to Live Life to the FullestYou better lose yourself in the music, the momentYou own it, you better never let it goYou only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blowThis opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo— Eminem, “Lose Yourself”Losing ourselves allows us to be fully present and live in the moment, and self-transcendent experiences have been shown to make us happier, kinder, and less stressed. We experience self-transcendence when we offer ourselves in service to others but also when we stand rapt in awe.We experience the feeling of being awestruck when we witness the sheer magnitude of formations like the Grand Canyon, phenomena like the Northern Lights, and structures like the Taj Mahal. In his webseries, Shots of Awe, Jason Silva defines awe as “an experience of such perceptual vastness you literally have to reconfigure your mental models of the world to assimilate it.”Arizona State University psychology professor Dr. Michelle Shiota explains, “The experience of awe involves feeling very small and insignificant yet also connected to something much greater than the self.” Experiences of awe have been shown to bolster resilience and increase feelings of compassion, empathy, altruism, and well-being.To recap, rejecting the notion of the self can make us happier, help us tap into the flow state for improved productivity, and experience the benefits of awe. The brain's left hemisphere, responsible for interpreting reality and recognizing patterns, creates the illusion of a stable, continuous self and often distracts us with inaccurate interpretations of reality.To counteract the left brain's chatter, we can engage our right brain through activities such as exercise, yoga, meditation, and gratitude practices. Rejecting the self frees up cognitive load, which allows us to enter the flow state, essential for mastery. Losing ourselves in awe-inspiring experiences enriches our lives for the better. Thanks for reading!Listen to “Evolving with Nita Jain” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Soundcloud, Deezer, TuneIn, or iHeart Radio! Music for this episode, “New Beginnings” by Joshua Kaye, was provided courtesy of Syfonix. Some links are affiliate. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nitajain.substack.com

Social media is omnipresent. Mindless scrolling through TikTok and Instagram reels is just a part of our daily lives now. Whether it's cat videos, funny dances, or cool outfits, online content fills our excess time, entertains us, and keeps us connected with our friends and the people we look up to. As my housemate says, sometimes, we're living in the REEL world, not the REAL world. But it's also no secret that too much social media is not very good for our psyche and our brains. Curious why? Come and listen to learn a little bit more about the neuroscience of spending tooooooo much time on InstaSnapTok. Please rate, review, and subscribe and if you have any questions, comments, concerns, queries, or complaints, please email me at neuroscienceamateurhour@gmail.com or DM me at NeuroscienceAmateurHour on Instagram.Citations and relevant pictures are below:Börchers S. Your Brain on Instagram, TikTok, & Co – The Neuroscience of Social Media. Published June 29, 2020. https://biologista.org/2020/06/29/your-brain-on-instagram-tiktok-co-the-neuroscience-of-social-media/Montag C, Markowetz A, Blaszkiewicz K, et al. Facebook usage on smartphones and gray matter volume of the nucleus accumbens. Behavioral Brain Research. 2017;329:221-228. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2017.04.035Arias-Carrión O, Stamelou M, Murillo-Rodríguez E, Menéndez-González M, Pöppel E. Dopaminergic reward system: a short integrative review. International Archives of Medicine. 2010;3(1):24. doi:10.1186/1755-7682-3-24Jan M, Soomro S, Ahmad N. Impact of social media on self-esteem. Ssrn.com. Published August 31, 2017. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3030048Pittman M, Reich B. Social media and loneliness: Why an Instagram picture may be worth more than a thousand Twitter words. Computers in Human Behavior. 2016;62:155-167. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.084Will GJ, Rutledge RB, Moutoussis M, Dolan RJ. Neural and computational processes underlying dynamic changes in self-esteem. FeldmanHall O, ed. eLife. 2017;6:e28098. doi:10.7554/eLife.28098Cacioppo JT, Cacioppo S. The growing problem of loneliness. The Lancet. 2018;391(10119):426. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(18)30142-9Chunliang Feng, Li Wang, Ting Li, Pengfei Xu, Connectome-based individualized prediction of loneliness, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 14, Issue 4, April 2019, Pages 353–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz020Alkozei A, Smith R, Pisner DA, et al. Exposure to Blue Light Increases Subsequent Functional Activation of the Prefrontal Cortex During Performance of a Working Memory Task. Sleep. 2016;39(9):1671-1680. doi:10.5665/sleep.6090Support the show

Ponownie gościmy Aleksandrę Piejkę, naszą specjalistkę do spraw trudnych - doktorantkę w Instytucie Psychologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Rozważamy temat empatii na wielu płaszczyznach - nie tylko jako współodczuwanie, ale również jej dodatkowe aspekty. Ola tłumaczy nam również historię konstruktu empatii oraz obecne jej rozumienie. Rozważamy, czy można mieć empatii za dużo, czy jest jednoznacznie pozytywnym konceptem oraz w jaki sposób można jej się nauczyć? A na deser: radykalna empatia! Wspominamy o: Brené Brown on Empathy (uwaga! sympathy to nie sympatia, ale współczucie) Jennifer Lawrence (3:15) – referencja dot. mówienia szybko Piosenka z discovery weekly Cleo (to nieobowiązkowe i luźne nawiązanie, po prostu mi się skojarzyło!) Paul Bloom - książka "Przeciw empatii" lub artykuł "The baby in the Well. The case against empathy" Batson, C. D. (2009). These things called empathy: Eight related but distinct phenomena. In J. Decety & W. Ickes (Eds.), The social neuroscience of empathy (pp. 3–15). MIT Press. Olga M. Klimecki, Susanne Leiberg, Matthieu Ricard, Tania Singer, Differential pattern of functional brain plasticity after compassion and empathy training, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 9, Issue 6, June 2014, Pages 873–879, De Waal, F. B., & Preston, S. D. (2017). Mammalian empathy: behavioural manifestations and neural basis. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 18(8), 498-509. Hickok, G. (2009). Eight problems for the mirror neuron theory of action understanding in monkeys and humans. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 21(7), 1229-1243.

Let's talk about affirmations! What are they? Positive affirmations are statements or phrases you repeat to yourself to challenge negative or unhelpful thinking patterns. Do they even work? Yes! You can make them work for you with just some practice and intention. In this episode, we will learn more about affirmations and why they're so beneficial and then we'll do some affirmations together! Need an affirmation playlist? Check out this AMAZING playlist by @selfloversintherapy: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ZI7UZuuBxpvbCupkwZY7c?si=b5f3981fe25940ba References: Cascio, C. N., O'Donnell, M. B., Tinney, F. J., Lieberman, M. D., Taylor, S. E., Strecher, V. J., & Falk, E. B. (2015). Self-affirmation activates brain systems associated with self-related processing and reward and is reinforced by future orientation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(4), 621–629. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsv136 Sherman, D. K., Bunyan, D. P., Creswell, J. D., & Jaremka, L. M. (2009). Psychological vulnerability and stress: The effects of self-affirmation on sympathetic nervous system responses to naturalistic stressors. Health Psychology, 28(5), 554–562. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014663 Steele, C. M. (1988). The psychology of self-affirmation: Sustaining the integrity of the self. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 261–302. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60229-4 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

 Hi friends! I'm so excited to be partnering with Dr. Stephen Cabral on some upcoming podcast episodes, including this one. You can check out his 21 Day Detox at $100 off or a 7 Day Detox at $20 off here!  Today, we're going to talk about something that has come and gone out of my life a few different times, depending on what was going on. I'm back into my meditation mojo right now and it's been so incredible to make it a part of my life again. My dreams are vivid each night, I sleep soundly, and I feel more peaceful and focused throughout the day. In today's episode, I'm excited to share more about what meditation is, how to use it in your routine, and different methods you can try at home. Listen to the full episode here: [smart_track_player url="" title="097: Benefits of meditation and how to implement it in your life" social_linkedin="true" social_pinterest="true" social_email="true" ] 097: Benefits of meditation and how to implement it in your life Meditation has been linked to so many possible benefits, including promoting a healthy blood pressure, potentially improve anxiety, depression, and insomnia, and reducing pain. It's also been shown to potentially help with digestive issues and smoking cessation. It can also help increase resiliency to stress, which is a huge reason why I am thankful for it. According to a 2015 study from Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, mindfulness practices dampen activity in our amygdala, which is responsible for experiencing strong emotions, like fear, pleasure or anger. In this study, it demonstrated increased connections between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, which help us to be less reactive to stressors and an improved stress response.  While meditation has been used in various cultures for thousands of years, it's become increasingly popular in the United States in the past 15 years or so. A 2017 National Health Interview Survey found that US adults' meditation tripled between 2012 and 2017, and children's meditation increased from 0.6% in 2012 to 5.4% in 2017. It's estimated that 3.1 million US children use mindfulness meditation in school. It's estimated that between 200 and 500 million people meditate worldwide, and the top 10 meditation apps generated $195 million in sales in 2019. (I'm realllyyyyy interested to know how much more they made in 2020 - now.)  Types of meditation: There are so many different types of meditation, but it usually involves some combination of the following: - a quiet location - a comfortable posture - focusing on breath - drawing your attention inwards and letting wandering thoughts come and go Just like so many other things in our health routines, meditation can have therapeutic properties, BUT it's not a substitute for traditional therapy. If you're struggling with anxiety or depression, please seek out the help you deserve.  How to meditate: 1) Find a comfortable position in a quiet space. You can sit in a chair, on the ground, on a yoga mat, or lie down (if you're not sleepy). I use my PEMF Go Mat! I don't recommend meditating in bed because you don't want to tie meditation with sleep. You can also listen to crystal bowls, binaural beats on Spotify, or some instrumental slow music. 2) Set a timer. This can be anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour, depending on how much time you have. I've been doing 7 minutes lately, which doesn't seem like a lot, but it's just enough to feel the benefits and not overwhelming to the point that I won't do it. Be realistic with your time goal and start small; build up from there.  3) Start to take deep breaths and just notice the rise and fall of your breath and all of the sensations around you.Feel yourself rooted into the ground or your mat, notice your heartbeat, any sounds around you, scents, the temperature of the air, and then bring your attention back to your breath.  4) Start to draw your focus inward and bring your attention to one specific thing as you breathe. I'm a huge fan of using a mantra in my meditation practice. When I did yoga teacher training, we learned Primordial Meditation (the Deepak Chopra method, as our instructor also taught at the Chopra Institute) and received our own personal mantra. Some sample (and simple) mantras: “Ham-sah” (meaning “I am that”) “I love you, I'm sorry, Please forgive me, Thank You” – Ho'oponopono (Hawaiian) Mantra  (Saul David Raye used this during a workshop, and I found it to be so healing and peaceful) “Om” (there are 4 sounds to this: ah, oh, mmmm, and the silence that follows. “Om” is used as a charging sound, and brings intention to the universe) You can also create your own, using two words that you want to FEEL throughout your day, or two words that resonate with you. On the inhale, think of one word, and on the exhale, focus on the second word. The combo that I used when I was first starting my meditation journey: peace (inhale), calm (exhale). What happens if your thoughts wander during meditation? It's no.big.deal. Just notice what's happening, let the extra thoughts go, and bring your attention back to your mantra and your breath.  If you don't feel comfortable meditating on your own, you can absolutely try a guided meditation. There are SO many amazing resources now! You can use the Calm app, Headspace, Peloton meditation, or try a free one from YouTube (I love this gratitude meditation, which includes some of the soul questions I mentioned below).  Some other things you can do: - “Sandwich” your meditation practice with other habits that make you feel good. Before meditating, sit and ask yourself the 7 questions of the soul. It's a beautiful way to get to know yourself and tune in with your true self, desires, and purpose.  Who am I? What do I want? What is my purpose? How can I serve? - Try journaling before or after meditation, or use this time to read something you enjoy. - You can also follow your meditation with some mobility work, sun salutations, or gentle movement. - Or you can be like me and set your timer for 7 minutes and get on with your day. ;)  I hope that you enjoyed this short episode on meditation and also hope you feel inspired to test it out! If you decide to give it a whirl, please report back and let me know how it goes.  xoxo Gina More: Breathing exercises for anxiety You vagus nerve and why you should care about it Resources from this episode: Check out Dr. Cabral's Detox program here and get a 21 Day Detox at $100 off or a 7 Day Detox at $20 off.  Your liver filters all of the blood in your body every 6 minutes, but with the influx of toxins in our environment, our livers cannot keep up and our bodies have no choice but to store these toxins away in our fat cells, organs, and even our brain so they are not floating around in our blood stream. Over time this toxic buildup begins to cause symptoms of poor health and eventually can lead to all types of dis-eases in the body. The Dr. Cabral detox is a comprehensive, full body Functional Medicine detoxification system that gently eliminates harmful toxins while rebalancing the body at an underlying root cause level. 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What do those goosebumps (frisson) mean when you hear a great song? Can music benefit our well-being? Can music be spiritual? These questions and more are answered in this week's episode of Psych & Spirit. FRISSON MUSIC (MY OWN EXPERIENCE): Weyes Blood - Movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFtRq6t3jOo Danny Elfman – Ice Dance / The Grand Finale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VlFMtlZAs4 Philip Glass - The Hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYuTEcArOr8 Enya - Cursum Perficio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_DuEU6Mvg Marnie - Submariner (3:45-7:29): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87ePr9pFR8k Moby - My Weakness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioDcGjwu988 Banco de Gaia - Not In My Name (4:52-10:22): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABtKieS99sw Wendy & Lisa (ft. Seal) - The Closing of the Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-MAqVsOLFI References Blood, A. J., & Zatorre, R. J. (2001). Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 98(20), 11818-11823. Colver, M. (2016, May 25). Why does great music give you the chills? Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2016/05/getting-chills-when-listening-to-music-might-mean-youre-a-more-emotional-person.html Colver, M. C., & El-Alayli, A. (2016). Getting aesthetic chills from music: The connection between openness to experience and frisson. Psychology of Music, 44(3), 413-427. Costa, P., & McCrae, R. (1992). Revised NEO personality inventory (NEO-PI-R) and NEO five-factor inventory (NEO-FFI) professional manual. Psychological Assessment Resources. Daykin, N., Mansfield, L., Meads, C., Julier, G., Tomlinson, A., Payne, A., ... & Victor, C. (2018). What works for wellbeing? A systematic review of wellbeing outcomes for music and singing in adults. Perspectives in public health, 138(1), 39-46. Garrido, S., & Schubert, E. (2015). Music and people with tendencies to depression. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 32(4), 313-321. Guhn, M., Hamm, A., & Zentner, M. (2007). Physiological and musico-acoustic correlates of the chill response. Music Perception, 24(5), 473-484. Harrison, L., & Loui, P. (2014). Thrills, chills, frissons, and skin orgasms: toward an integrative model of transcendent psychophysiological experiences in music. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 790. Koelsch, S., & Jäncke, L. (2015). Music and the heart. European heart journal, 36(44), 3043-3049. Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Wisco, B. E., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2008). Rethinking rumination. Perspectives on psychological science, 3(5), 400-424. Sachs, M., Ellis, R., Schlaug, G., and Loui P. (2016). Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(6), 884–891. Weinberg, M. K., & Joseph, D. (2017). If you're happy and you know it: Music engagement and subjective well-being.

Dr. Rachel Laribee Gresk joins Melissa and Heidi in this episode to discuss the world of Iraqi Higher Education and the impact of social-cognitive and environmental factors on Iraqi student satisfaction.  Dr. Laribee Gresk graduated in October of 2020 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration.

Dans le monde entier et de tout temps, les gens aiment. Les mythes et légendes portent sur l'amour et son contraire. Les anthropologues ont découvert que l'amour romantique existait dans plus de 170 sociétés humaines ! L'amour semble être la pierre angulaire de notre espèce mais aussi de bien des espèces animales. Dans cet épisode, nous répondrons aux questions suivantes : Que se passe-t-il dans le cerveau quand on tombe amoureux ? L'amour dure-t-il réellement 3 ans ?Et pourquoi tombe-t-on amoureux d'une personne plutôt qu'une autre ?Si vous souhaitez avoir un éclairage neuro sur un sujet en particulier de la vie quotidienne, de notre fonctionnement, écrivez-moi à neurosapiens.podcast@gmail.com Production, animation, réalisation et illustration : Anaïs Roux  SOURCESBartels A, Zeki S. The neural basis of romantic love. Neuroreport. 2000 Nov 27;11(17):3829-34. doi: 10.1097/00001756-200011270-00046. PMID: 11117499.Acevedo BP, Aron A, Fisher HE, Brown LL. Neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2012 Feb;7(2):145-59. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsq092. Epub 2011 Jan 5. PMID: 21208991; PMCID: PMC3277362.Insel TR, Winslow JT, Wang Z, Young LJ. Oxytocin, vasopressin, and the neuroendocrine basis of pair bond formation. Adv Exp Med Biol. 1998;449:215-24. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4871-3_28. PMID: 10026808.Cormier, Z. Gene switches make prairie voles fall in love. Nature (2013).S. Stroope et al., Marital characteristics and the sexual relationships of U.S. older adults: an analysis of national social life, health, and aging project data, in Arch. Sex. Behav., vol. 44, pp. 233-247, 2015.B. P. Acevedo et al., Neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love, in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, vol. 7, pp. 145-159, 2012.K. D. O'Leary et al., Is long-term love more than a rare phenomenon ? If so, what are its correlates ? in Social Psychology and Personality Science, vol. 3, pp. 241-249, 2012.Insel, T. R., and Hulihan, T. (1995). A gender-specific mechanism forpair bonding: Oxytocin and partner preference formation in mo-nogamous voles. Behav. Neurosci. 109, 782–789.Insel, T. R., and Shapiro, L. E. (1992). Oxytocin receptor distributionreflects social organization in monogamous and polygamousvoles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 5981–5985Helen Fisher, Why We Love : The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love, Henry Holt, 2004Helen Fisher, Why Him? Why Her? : Finding Real Love By Understanding Your Personality Type, Oneworld Publications UK-Commonwealth, 2009.  Musique d'intro KEEP ON GOINGMusique proposée par La Musique LibreJoakim Karud - Keep On Going : https://youtu.be/lOfg0jRqaA8Joakim Karud : https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/neurosapiens.

We'd love to hear from you (feedback@breakingbadscience.com)Look us up on social media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/385282925919540Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breakingbadsciencepodcast/Website: http://www.breakingbadscience.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/breakingbadscienceOrson Scott Card could not have had any idea when he wrote Ender's game that he was predicting instant messaging, VR, and yes even social media. In his view of the concept the technology was used for some interesting things. The question is, how right was he? Can two people with a voice on a forum impact the entire world like Locke and Demosthenes? We've railed against social media before on this podcast, and it begs the question: is it just something that rots your brain like our parents once claimed the TV did? Join hosts Shanti and Danny as we discuss the impacts of social media as well as its importance in our future. ReferencesChappet, M.; Have We Been Brain-Jacked by Instagram? As We're Given the Option to Hide Likes, We Investigate How the ‘gram Has Rewired our Brains for Good…. Glamour. 26-May-2021. https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/instagram-effect-on-brainBarker, E.; This is the Best Way to Overcome Fear of Missing Out. Time. 07-Jun-2016. https://time.com/4358140/overcome-fomo/Sherman, L., et. al.; What the Brain ‘Likes': Neural Correlates of Providing Feedback on Social Media. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 04-Jul-2018. 13:7 (699 - 707). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsy051Hunt, M., et. al.; No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. Dec-2018. 37:10. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751Ahmad, S., et. al.; Detection and Classification of Social Media-Based Extremist Affiliations Using Sentiment Analysis Techniques. Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences. 01-Jul-2019. 9:24. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13673-019-0185-6Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/breakingbadscience?fan_landing=true)

Skam er en af de stærkeste følelser, vi har. Det føles som om, et stort projektørlys belyser vores fejl og mangler til skue for alle andre - og følelsen kan vare ved i lang tid. Det er ganske ubehageligt - men hvorfor føler vi egentlig skam? Og hvad gør skammen ved os? I ugens episode dykker vi ned i skam-forskningen og kigger på, om ikke også skammen kan være godt for noget. Asbjørn fortæller, at ens af hans allerførste minder var en skamfuld oplevelse, mens Jais må tilstå, at han nok er rimelig skamløs. Heldigvis er de to værter i kyndige hænder, og Dan Zahavi og Carsten Stage fortæller, hvordan skam adskiller sig fra vores andre følelser, og hvordan skammen tydeliggør, at vi mennesker er i stand til at se på os selv udefra.Og så kommer de med hvert deres bud på, hvordan skammen også kan være positiv. Til sidst udruller Albert Gjedde et vildt studie, der viser, at amøber, som er blevet skåret i stykker, kan samle sig igen - og finde den korteste rute gennem en labyrint! Alt det og meget mere får du i denne udgave af Brainstorm. Medvirkende:  Dan Zahavi, professor på Center for Subjektivitetsforskning, Københavns Universitet Carsten Stage, lektor på Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur, Aarhus Universitet. Studier, der omtales i episoden: Neurobiological underpinnings of shame and guilt: a pilot fMRI study, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2014. On the Origin of Shame: Does Shame Emerge From an Evolved Disease-Avoidance Architecture? Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020. Brainstorm er på Instagram!  Brainstorm er Videnskab.dk's podcast om hjernen - støttet af Lundbeckfonden Redaktion: Jais Baggestrøm Koch, Asbjørn Mølgaard Sørensen, Anette Lilleøre, Jeppe Øvig og Mathilde Valsgaard Hansen

Learn about why there’s no such thing as a hypoallergenic dog; why you should praise kids for their work ethic, not their smarts; and why you should never put coffee grounds in your garden.  There's no such thing as a hypoallergenic dog by Grant Currin More, D. (2021). The Myth of Hypoallergenic Dogs. Verywell Health. https://www.verywellhealth.com/the-myth-of-hypoallergenic-dogs-82709  Pet allergy: Are there hypoallergenic dog breeds? (2019). Mayo Clinic; https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pet-allergy/expert-answers/hypoallergenic-dog-breeds/faq-20058425  Vredegoor, D. W., Willemse, T., Chapman, M. D., Heederik, D. J. J., & Krop, E. J. M. (2012). Can f 1 levels in hair and homes of different dog breeds: Lack of evidence to describe any dog breed as hypoallergenic. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 130(4), 904-909.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2012.05.013  Here's Why You Should Praise Kids for Their Work Ethic, Not Their Smarts by Ashley Hamer Dweck, C. S. (1986). Motivational processes affecting learning. American Psychologist, 41(10), 1040–1048. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.41.10.1040  Mangels, J. A., Butterfield, B., Lamb, J., Good, C., & Dweck, C. S. (2006). Why do beliefs about intelligence influence learning success? A social cognitive neuroscience model. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1(2), 75–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsl013  Roche, B. (2014, August 27). Ignore the IQ test: your level of intelligence is not fixed for life. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/ignore-the-iq-test-your-level-of-intelligence-is-not-fixed-for-life-30673  Jacobs, T. (2015, March 26). More Evidence That Intelligence Is Malleable. Pacific Standard; Pacific Standard. https://psmag.com/environment/more-evidence-that-intelligence-is-malleable#.og2q3ahxp  Dewar, G. (2013). Growth mindset: Can a theory of intelligence change the way you learn? Parentingscience.com; Parenting Science. https://www.parentingscience.com/theory-of-intelligence.html  Whatever You Do, Don't Put Coffee Grounds in Your Garden originally aired May 14, 2018 https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/types-of-narcissists-don-t-garden-with-coffee-grou  Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever wanted to be more consistent with your exercise habits? Especially as finals are coming up, how many of you have stopped or reduced your daily exercise just to study for your tests? In this week's podcast, Alan tries to use some simple psychology to see if it can improve his chances of exercising. But, finals loom just around the corner, waiting to start some trouble... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Learn about a surprising benefit of adding humor to the news; what getting chills from music says about your brain; and how Volta’s electric eels that hunt in packs.  Young adults are more likely to remember and share news delivered with humor by Kelsey Donk New Study Finds that Delivering the News with Humor Makes Young Adults More Likely to Remember and Share | Annenberg School for Communication. (2021). Upenn.edu. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/new-study-finds-delivering-news-humor-makes-young-adults-more-likely-remember-and  Coronel, J. C., O’Donnell, M. B., Pandey, P., Delli Carpini, M. X., & Falk, E. B. (2020). Political Humor, Sharing, and Remembering: Insights from Neuroimaging. Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaa041  What Getting Chills from Music Says About Your Brain by Reuben Westmaas Sachs, M. E., Ellis, R. J., Schlaug, G., & Loui, P. (2016). Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(6), 884–891. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw009  ‌Colver, M. (2016, May 25). If You Get Chills While Listening to Music, You Might Be a More Open and Emotional Person. Slate Magazine; Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2016/05/getting-chills-when-listening-to-music-might-mean-youre-a-more-emotional-person.html  McCrae, R. R. (2007). Aesthetic Chills as a Universal Marker of Openness to Experience. Motivation and Emotion, 31(1), 5–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-007-9053-1  Electric eels hunt in packs, and scientists are shocked by Steffie Drucker Roth, A. (2021). Electric Eels Hunt in Packs, Shocking Prey and Scientists. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/science/electric-eels-hunting-pack.html Moutinho, S. (2021, January 14). Shocking discovery: Electric eels hunt in packs in Amazon rivers. Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/shocking-discovery-electric-eels-hunt-packs-amazon-rivers  ‌Bastos, D. A., Zuanon, J., Rapp Py‐Daniel, L., & Santana, C. D. (2021). Social predation in electric eels. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7121  Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode reviews the behaviorist perspective in understanding personality with BF Skinner and then dives into the Social Cognitive Theories of Rotter (locus of control) and Bandura (social learning theory), and finally ends with understanding personality & culture (individualist vs collectivist).

Week 3 (Feb 15) of COMM 226 - The Social Impact of Mass Media This episode covers the lecture about Social Cognitive Theory and how people learn to model behavior they see from others. With instructor Stephen Warren

It invloves learning by observation, concept of self efficacy

This PodQuiz episode will quiz your knowledge of pediatric developmental theories mentioned in our two-part YouTube series. Theories and theorists include Piaget, Vygotsky, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Behavioral, Bandura's Social Cognitive, Dynamic Systems, Motor Learning, NDT, and Sensory Integration. Phew! Listen now to quiz yourself!

This episode explores Split-Second Perception with our guest, Dr. Jon Freeman. We discuss the use of his software MouseTracker to investigate implicit biases, how these biases affect our perception of others, and what can be done to mitigate them. Jon Freeman is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University and director of the Social Cognitive & Neural Sciences Lab. He received his Ph.D. from Tufts University and was on the faculty at Dartmouth before coming to NYU in 2014. His research focuses on how we perceive other people, such as how we categorize others into social groups, infer their emotion or personality via facial cues, and more generally how we understand and react to our social world. His work examines the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying person perception, stereotyping and decision-making in social contexts. He takes an integrative, multi-level approach that makes use of several techniques, including functional neuroimaging, computational modeling, and behavioral paradigms. He is also the developer of the data collection and analysis software, MouseTracker. Dr. Freeman is the recipient of a number of awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Janet T. Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science, the Early Career Award from the Society for Social Neuroscience, the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, and the Early Career Award from the International Social Cognition Network. His work has appeared in media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and TIME Magazine.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.10.06.327684v1?rss=1 Authors: Kim, J. Abstract: The development of noninvasive neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging was followed by a large volume of human neuroimaging studies of mental processes, mechanisms, and diseases. Due to the high volume of studies and the large number of journals, it is increasingly challenging for neuroscientists to review existing scholarly journals and find the most suitable journal to publish their studies. Therefore, this paper proposes a scholarly journal recommendation model for human neuroimaging studies called brain activation-based filtering (BAF). Based on the collective matrix factorization technique, BAF recommends journals relevant to the activated brain regions that are described in a given neuroimaging study. For instance, if social brain regions such as the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, precuneus, and temporoparietal junction are activated in a study, BAF recommends relevant social neuroscience journals (e.g., Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience). Five-fold cross-validation shows that BAF predicts journals with a reliable area under the curve score of 0.855. Furthermore, an interactive Google Colab notebook is offered to recommend relevant journals for a novel human neuroimaging study (https://github.com/JunsolKim/brain-activation-based-filtering). Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

⟩⟩ Wir alle haben Macht in unserem Leben. Je nach Kontext, Gruppe oder Situation ist es mal mehr oder mal weniger. Die Frage ist wie wir damit umgehen? Und welche Macht wir für uns selbst haben? Ist Macht etwas Gutes oder Schlechtes? Wie verändert sie uns? Wie gehen wir mit ihr um? Und wie können wir Macht neu definieren, um sie nutzbar zu machen? Diese und weitere Fragen wird Pam heute beantworten. Und Philipp hat auch mal wieder eine Studie zu Macht dabei. ⟩⟩ Quellen: „How can you tell if someone is kind? Ask how rich they are.“ Karen Weese. October 21, 2016. Washington Post. — https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/21/how-can-you-tell-if-someone-is-kind-ask-how-rich-they-are/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4d8c0e7be3e8 Muscatell, K. A., Morelli, S. A., Falk, E. B., Way, B. M., Pfeifer, J. H., Galinsky, A. D., Lieberman, M. D., Dapretto, M., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2012). Social status modulates neural activity in the mentalizing network. NeuroImage, 60, 1771-1777 — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3909703/ Muscatell, K. A., Moeini, M., Inagaki, T. K., Dutcher, J. D., Jevtic, I., Breen, E. C., Irwin, M. R., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2016). Exposure to an inflammatory challenge enhances neural sensitivity to negative and positive social feedback. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 57, 21-29. — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27032568 Muscatell, K.A., Dedovic, K., Slavich, G. M., Jarcho, M. R., Breen, E. C., Bower, J. E., Irwin, M. R., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2016). Neural mechanisms linking social status with inflammatory responses to social stress. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 915-922. — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26979965 --- ⟩⟩ Fragen und Anregungen zum Podcast: podcast@enneagramgermany.de

ON Episode#7, here are the main headlines:1. Got a bad ache? Did you take a Tylenol? New research finds While acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol is helping you deal with your headache, it may also be influencing your judgement, making you more willing to take risks.2. In fitness research, a systematic review of dozens of different studies show that performing any form of aerobic exercise before engaging in a learning activity improves the learning ability and storage in memory.3. What are the longterm effects of pandemics? A report finds that effects of pandemics in history have lasted for 4 decadesReferences:1. Alexis Keaveney, Ellen Peters, Baldwin Way. Effects of acetaminophen on risk taking. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 20202. Peter Blomstrand and Jan Engvall. "Effects of a Single Exercise Workout on Memory and Learning Functions in Young Adults—A Systematic ReviewE." Translational Sports Medicine (First published: August 08, 2020) 3. Jordà, Òscar, Sanjay R. Singh, and Alan M. Taylor. Longer-run economic consequences of pandemics. No. w26934. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.09.233270v1?rss=1 Authors: Usui, N., Berto, S., Konishi, A., Kondo, M., Konopka, G., Matsuzaki, H., Shimada, S. Abstract: Recent genetic studies have underscored the pleiotropic effects of single genes to multiple cognitive disorders. Mutations of ZBTB16 are associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SCZ), but how the function of ZBTB16 is related to ASD or SCZ remains unknown. Here we show the deletion of Zbtb16 in mice leads to both ASD- and SCZ-like behaviors such as social impairment, repetitive behaviors, risk-taking behaviors, and cognitive impairment. To elucidate the mechanism underlying the behavioral phenotypes, we carried out histological studies and observed impairments in thinning of neocortical layer 6 (L6) and a reduction of TBR1+ neurons in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of Zbtb16 KO mice. Furthermore, we found increased dendritic spines and microglia as well as developmental defects in oligodendrocytes and neocortical myelination in the PFC of Zbtb16 KO mice. Using a genomics approach, we identified the Zbtb16-transcriptome that includes genes involved in both ASD and SCZ pathophysiology and neocortical maturation such as neurogenesis and myelination. Co-expression networks further identified Zbtb16-correlated modules that are unique to ASD or SCZ respectively. Our study provides insight into the differential role of ZBTB16 in ASD and SCZ. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

This episode discusses the topic of childhood trauma and how it impacts social, emotional, and cognitive development.

This podcast explains and describes social cognitive learning theory and its applications. Social cognitive learning theory involves observing the behaviors of others and the resulting rewards and punishments. Future behaviors were then based on these observations. From the perspective of social cognitive learning theory, learning is a change in mental processes that creates the capacity to demonstrate different behaviors that occurs as a result of observing others.

Today, Bekah and Teagan are talking about the science of phobias and fear...and Bekah's fear of mushrooms.Sources:Gallup Poll: What Frightens America's Youth Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, gallup.com (29 March 2005).https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/29/health/science-of-fear/index.htmlhttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/how-the-zombie-fungus-takes-over-ants-bodies-to-control-their-minds/545864/https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-is-misophonia#1Olsson, A.; Nearing, K.I.; Phelps, E.A. (2006). "Learning fears by observing others: The neural systems of social fear transmission". Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2 (1): 3–11. doi:10.1093/scan/nsm005. PMC 2555428. PMID 18985115Garcia, R (2017). "Neurobiology of fear and specific phobias". Learn Mem. 24 (9): 462–471. doi:10.1101/lm.044115.116. PMC5580526. PMID28814472. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This episode describes public policy as well as Social Cognitive Theory and how they are both positioned to help veterans. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dr-clarence-alford/message

In this episode of the Journal of Career Assessment podcast series, JCA Editor Ryan Duffy interviews Steven Brown about his career and work. They also discuss the new JCA article, "Social Cognitive Career Theory at 25: Progress in Studying the Domain Satisfaction and Career Self-Management Models," authored by Brown and Robert W. Lent.

This podcast discusses Albert Bandura and the Social-Cognitive Theory and also Exploring the Self with important vocab & how one's culture influences one's values, goals, personality. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Be master of your mind rather than having your mind be master of you! As our culture and world gets more stimuli, more screen time, more job demands, our mindfulness and peace can suffer.  In this show you learn: What is mindfulness. How mindfulness is like “falling in love” with the details that make up your life, rather than be overwhelmed by them. Exact steps to practice it within minutes.  How mindfulness can help you deal successfully with physical pain and negative emotions. How negative emotions “lube” a groove into your survival brain while shutting down your higher executive brain.  What breathing has to do with it. Generation stress. Recipe for peace: pay attention, say thank you, breathe. And more. Dr. Race started the Mindful Life Schools program which has helped over 50,000 children and many teachers learn mindfulness and create more happiness. Kristen Race, Ph.D. is a parent of two young children, as well as an expert in child, family and school psychology. Dr. Race is the author of Mindful Parenting and founder of Mindful Life™.  Dr. Race has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA TODAY, CNN, and Real Simple Magazine. She is a regular blogger for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today and a TEDx speaker. The effect of mindfulness is extremely pronounced. Yale scientists demonstrated (see citation below) that even when participants were subjected to high heat on their forearm, their brain responded as if it was experiencing normal temperature if they were practicing simple mindfulness techniques. It is connecting to the present moment peacefully, gratefully and with NON-JUDGMENT. In this show you learn the easy and effective technique of PBR: Pause,  Breathe, and  Respond with Intention.  Very cool!  Works fast when practiced regularly. Our judgments can rule us... making us vulnerable to anxiety, negativity and unhappiness.  The good news is... we can learn to rule our judgments.  With tools of mindfulness. This leads to awareness and to control over our mind and health. Awareness of what rules us is a huge part of feeling healthier and happier. It rules how you act and react. And what you attract.  It makes you comfy inside your body, brain and relationships. Understand and practice awareness.  This show guides you how! Guest Resources & Links Website: Mindfullifetoday.com Book: Mindful Parenting Additional Reading: Mindful-acceptance down-regulates pain and negative emotion. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2020; DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsz104 Bigger Belly Fat, Smaller Brain Size & The Shocking Link of Mindfulness (15 Action Steps)

This episode is a CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE audio experience. At various points in the podcast you can choose to turn up the volume or even plug in headphones. It's a crazy upside-down mind maze! Tune in to learn if we have free will and hear from our amazing guests Jacob Jeffries and Dr. Dan Ames (UCLA) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, we look at one of my favourite psychological topics: Social Cognitive Theory. This concept is one of the most easy to see pieces of psychology-at-work in everyday life so please join me in today's great episode as we explore one of my favourite concepts in psychology. In the news section, I tell you about a new program for teachers in the UK and Portugal- and I give teachers a bit of support. In the the personal update section, I tell you my publishing plans for 2020 and how it affects you. (In a very good way)

Meditation trains your mind to focus on the moment instead of worrying about what occurred in the past or what could happen in the future. All you need is five minutes a day. A Study published in April 2013 in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience reported that the practice can reduce anxiety levels by up to 22%. Research has suggested that meditating can actually form new and permanent neutral connections in the brain. Anyone can do it, and the more consistent you are, the easier it will become. So take a timer, a notepad and a pen to a quite room with soft (but not dim) lighting. Sit up straight in a comfortable chair, remove your shoes and socks and get started.

Today, Alyssa Orlando joins Kevin on the show to talk about self-efficacy and social cognitive theory from a learning and … More

If you're not a seasoned fighter and you get in an altercation that requires you to defend yourself, chances are you're going to hold back and be less effective. This is normal, it means you're a nice human that doesn't enjoy causing harm but it can cause YOU harm.

For our eighth episode, we interviewed Dr. Kate Mills, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. Dr. Mills is a developmental neuroscientist focusing on adolescent social and cognitive functioning. Why is adolescence such a critical developmental period? What can society do to nurture healthy adolescent development? Does using the internet destroy your brain? What is it like to be an early-career scientist starting out in such a competitive field? Dr. Mills provides the answers.

Music Theorist Mariusz Kozak recommends “When the Sound Becomes the Goal. 4E Cognition and Teleomusicality in Early Infancy” by Andrea Schiavio, Dylan van der Schyff, Silke Kruse-Weber and Renee Timmers, published in Frontiers in Psychology. Marius and Finn interview Andrea about this framing of early musical development and implications of an embodied, embedded, extended and enactive approach to cognitive science. Time Stamps [0:00:10] Intro with Mariusz [0:11:16] Interview: Origins and the 4 Es [0:21:40] Interview: Attention, Intention, and Mirror Neurons [0:32:59] Interview: Sound Goals and Musical Actions [0:40:28] Interview: Reception of Theory [0:53:03] Closing with Mariusz Show notes Recommended article: Schiavio, A., van der Schyff, D., Kruse-Weber, S., & Timmers, R. (2017). When the Sound Becomes the Goal. 4E Cognition and Teleomusicality in Early Infancy. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1585. Interviewee: Dr. Andrea Schiavio, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Graz Co-host: Prof. Mariusz Kozak, Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University Works cited in the discussion: Chemero, A. (2011). Radical embodied cognitive science. MIT press. Craighero, L., Leo, I., Umilta, C., and Simion, F. (2011). Newborns' preference for goal-directed actions. Cognition, 20, 26–32. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011 02.011 D'Ausilio, A. (2007). The role of the mirror system in mapping complex sounds into actions. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 5847–5848. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0979-07.2007 D'Ausilio, A. (2009). Mirror-like mechanisms and music. The Scientific World Journal, 9, 1415–1422. doi:10.1100/tsw.2009.160 Gerson, S. A., Bekkering, H., and Hunnius, S. (2015a). Short-term motor training, but not observational training, alters neurocognitive mechanisms of action processing in infancy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 1207–1214. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00774 Haslinger, B., Erhard, P., Altenmüller, E., Schroeder, U., Boecker, H., & Ceballos-Baumann, A. O. (2005). Transmodal sensorimotor networks during action observation in professional pianists. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 282–293. doi:10.1162/0898929053124893 Haueisen, J., & Knösche, T. R. (2001). Involuntary motor activity in pianists evoked by music perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 786–792. doi:10.1162/08989290152541449 Hickok-Gallese debate at NYU (2103) Do Mirror Neurons Explain Anything? Kohler, E., Keysers, C., Umiltà, M. A., Fogassi, L., Gallese, V., and Rizzolatti, G. (2002). Hearing sounds, understanding actions: action representation in mirror neurons. Science, 297, 846–848. doi: 10.1126/science.1070311 Menary, R. (2010). Introduction to the special issue on 4E cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 9, 459–463. Mukamel R., Ekstrom A.D., Kaplan J., Iacoboni M., Fried I., Single-Neuron Responses in Humans during Execution and Observation of Actions. Current Biology, vol. 20, nº 8. Novembre, G., Ticini, L. F., Schütz-Bosbach, S., & Keller, P. E. (2014). Motor simulation and the coordination of joint actions in real time. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 1062–1068. doi: 10.1093/scan/nst086 Overy, K., and Molnar-Szakacs, I. (2009). Being together in time: musical experience and the mirror neuron system. Music Perception, 26, 489–504. doi: 10.1525/mp.2009.26.5.489 Perone, S., Madole, K. L., Ross-Sheehy, S., Carey, M., and Oakes, L. M. (2009). The relation between infants' activity with objects and attention to object appearance. Developmental Psycholology, 44, 1242–1248. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.5.1242 Proffitt, D. R., Stefanucci, J., Banton, T., & Epstein, W. (2003). The role of effort in perceiving distance. Psychological Science, 14(2), 106-112. Schiavio, A. & Timmers, R. (2016). Motor and audiovisual learning consolidate auditory memory of tonally ambiguous melodies. Music Perception, 34(1), 21-32 Schiavio,

Sources: Klimecki, O.M., Leiberg, S., Ricard, M., and Singer, T. (2013) Differential pattern of functional brain plasticity after compassion and empathy training. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi:10.1093/scan/nst060. Layous, K. S., Nelson K., Kurtz J.L., and Lyubomirsky S. (2017). What triggers prosocial effort? A positive feedback loop between positive activities, kindness, and well-being. The Journal of Positive Psychology 12(4), 385-398. Nelson, S.K, Cole, S.W., Layous, K. and Lyubomirsky S. (2016). Do Unto Others or Treat Yourself? The Effects of Prosocial and Self-Focused Behavior on Psychological Flourishing. Emotion 16(6), 850–861. Piper, W.T., Saslow, L.R., and Saturn, S.R. (2015). Autonomic and prefrontal events during moral elevation. Biological Psychology 108, 51–55. Poulin, M.J., Holman, E.A., and Buffone A. (2012). The Neurogenetics of Nice: Receptor Genes for Oxytocin and Vasopressin Interact With Threat to Predict Prosocial Behavior. Psychological Science 23(5), 446–452.

[av_social_share title='Share this entry' style='' buttons='' custom_class='' admin_preview_bg='']   Episode Summary One thing that every organization encounters during the course of any campaign is stagnation. You can find success so often that this success becomes a habit in itself. This isn’t a bad thing per se, but the moment that you become complacent in your duties, even if you maintain your success, is the same moment that you stagnate. And stagnation, even if you’re successful, is a sign to your followers that you are no longer putting as much effort as you used to. In the world of non-profit fundraising, this can mean to your followers that you aren’t as interested in your cause as you were when you were just starting out. Sometimes, it really isn’t your fault that your organization’s success has reached its peak and there isn’t much that you can do to surpass the high bar of standards that you’ve established. - That’s often not the case, at least according to Albert Bandura, who believed that people are people are self organizing, proactive, self-regulating, and self-reflecting. This is based on Bandura’s Social Cognitive and Self-Efficacy Theories which propose that people do not merely respond to their environmental stimuli. Rather, people are capable of seeking information themselves and as a result, individuals are not merely a product of their circumstance. They are in fact, contributors to their situation. An individual (or organization, in this case) is more likely to improve the more that this individual (or organization) is aware of his surroundings and himself. Whatever might be holding you back as an individual has a tendency of seeping into how you feel as an organization. We’ve recently had a podcast episode where Beth Kanter, author of The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout, talks about the importance of maintaining the proper mindset and adapting effective strategies to help you meet your goals while avoiding burnout. This isn’t an easy venture. Everybody stagnates eventually. It will always be up to you if you decide whether this is where you peak. However, you need to realize that this limitation is just something that you put on yourself. You can go as far as what you put your mind to. That is the beauty of the human mind and the power of mental toughness and dedication. In this podcast episode, Ellie Burscough takes us on the adventure of her life as she tells us her personal experience in working in a call center, writing scripts, and making calls to donors on behalf of large, well-known charities and nonprofits. Then, Ellie talks about how she uses the sales knowledge that she acquired throughout her career to help businesses break past their own stumbling blocks and limitations so they can take on larger goals and create a greater impact in their chosen ventures.   We also talk about the similarities and differences between businesses & nonprofits, fundraising & sales, and how fundraisers can master their mindset to achieve more for others, by taking care of themselves. Ellie even shares some habits that can improve our ability to be creative and relatable to others. We learn about some of the biggest lessons she’s learned when it comes to mastering her own mindset. Her valuable advice and actionable takeaways will leave you motivated and ready to take on your day, every day. About Ellie Burscough Ellie is a business and mindset coach with experience working with the not-for-profit sector. She has worked at call centers writing scripts and making calls to donors on behalf of large, well known charities and nonprofits. She teaches the psychology behind scaling your goals. [av_button_big label='Join the Grow Your Non-Profit Facebook Group!' description_pos='above' link='manually,https://www.facebook.com/groups/growyournonprofit/' link_target='' icon_select='yes-left-icon' icon='ue8f5' font='entypo-fontello' custom_font='#ffffff' color='theme-color' custom_bg='#444444' color_hover='theme-color-subtle' custom_bg_hover='#444444' custom_font_hover='#421c52!important' custom_class='' admin_preview_bg=''] Click here to join a community of non-profit professionals leveraging digital marketing and technology to grow their communities and improve their fundraising systems.  [/av_button_big]  

Show Notes for Podcast Five of Sex & Why Host: Jeannette Wolfe Topic: Stress Response   For Acute Care Medicine and Introduction to Sex and Gender Based Medicine CME Cruise Opportunity click here   Part 2 on biological sex differences in the stress response with special guest Justin Morgenstern We started out with a discussion on different ways to frame potential sex and gender based research using a method described by  Dr. M McCarthy A full discussion of this framework can also be found on my website McCarthy MM et al, The Journal of Neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2012;32(7):2241-2247. There appears to be a significant amount of individual variation in how some individuals respond to and recover from similar stresses. Some of these differences may be influenced by our biological sex. Understanding how we react and respond to stress and how this may perhaps differ from other individuals around us may help us better communicate and lead under stressful situations. Study #1 This was a follow up study to an infamous study the same team did three years before in which they looked at sex differences in reward collection on a computer balloon game (Balloon Analogue Risk Task or BART). In this game, players got 30 balloons and the farther they pumped them up the more points they got however, each balloon was also set to randomly pop somewhere between 1- 128 pumps and if the player popped their balloon before they cashed it in they lost points for that balloon. Study participants were randomized to control vs stress condition (placing hand in neutral versus ice water for 3 min) and then played the game. They found that in neutral conditions there was no significant difference in risk taking (number of pumps 39 for women versus 42 for men, but under stress women decreased their pumping to 32 while men increased to 48). In this 2012 study, Lighthall's group adjusted its protocol so that BART could now be played in an MRI scanner. Unfortunately, the new BART design subtly changed the game because now instead of going through 30 balloons, participants played the game for a set amount of time with unlimited balloons. This inadvertently added a second strategy to get lots of points as the new design allowed participants to get points by either pumping additional air into an individual balloon or rapidly moving through a greater number of balloons while pumping only a few pumps per balloon. Stress intervention was again either a cold or neutral temperature water bath and after submersion the researchers collected cortisol samples and scanned participants while they played the game. Results- no difference in control conditions (room temp water) between men and women in number of balloon pumps or points earned But under stress men acted more quickly and got increased rewards while women appeared to slow down their reaction time and decrease their rewards. Men had higher baseline and stimulated cortisol but there was no difference b/w men and women in the amount of cortisol change between baseline and stressed condition. Under basic non stress conditions- during the control testing it appeared that overall men and women utilized the same brain regions to complete the balloon task (i.e. suggesting that males and females approach the task by using similar neural strategies), however once stressed men and women seemed to use different areas of their brain. Men used their dorsal striatum and anterior insula more. Anterior insula has been associated with switching tasks from a riskier to a safer option (and in both sexes higher activity in this region correlated with higher collection rate) and the dorsal striatum is believed to be associated with obtaining predictable rewards and with integrating sensory, motor, cognitive and emotional signals. Did not find that men had increased risk taking in this study but it may have been masked in that there was now a lower risk strategy available to them that still was associated with an increased reward (pumping balloon a small amount and quickly cashing in to get to next balloon). Concept discussed is that under stress men may possible go into type one systemic thinking (automatic) while women may favor type 2 (deliberate cognitive inquiry). Lighthall, N. R., Mather, M., & Gorlick, M. A. (2009). Acute stress increases sex differences in risk seeking in the balloon analogue risk task. PloS One, 4(7), e6002. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006002 Lighthall, N. R., Sakaki, M., Vasunilashorn, S., Nga, L., Somayajula, S., Chen, E. Y. Mather, M. (2012). Gender differences in reward-related decision processing under stress. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(4), 476–84. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsr026 Study #2:  Goal to determine if: Under equal subjective sensations of stress (i.e. men and women objectively rate their subjective level of stress the same on a 1-10 point scale) do men and women use the same brain circuitry to process stress or do they use different circuitries. What they did: Collect cognitive, psychiatric, and drug use assessments on 55 men and 41 women aged 19-50 Exclusions TBI, psychoactive meds, history of substance abuse, preg, DSM-IV mental health disorder and currently menstruating or oral contraceptive use (to try and mitigate additional hormonal influences) Over course of 2-3 sessions put them into a MRI scanner and asked them to visualize neutral or stress inducing images (this technique has previously been validated and involved the subjects own audiotaped accounts of stressful –rated as greater than 8 on 1-10 Likert scale- or neutral experience) which was later played back to them in MRI scanner Asked them to rank their level of stress Looked to see which areas of the brain lit up under different conditions Results Men and women appeared to have different strategies for guided visual tasks in general regardless of whether listening to neutral or stressful recordings: Men: More likely to light up areas associated with motor processing and action. Caudate, midbrain, thalamus, and cingulate gyrus and cerebellum Women: More likely to light up areas associated with visual processing, verbal expression and emotional experience             Right temporal gyrus, insula and occipital lobe Women were also more likely to increase their HR regardless of condition (likely from having increased autonomic arousal- though other studies suggest that women have increased HR at baseline compared to men in general) Under stress men and women had firing in opposite directions: Men dampened while women increased firing in: Dorsal Medial pre-frontal cortex, parietal lobes (including inferior parietal lobe and precuneus region) left temporal lobe, occipital area and cerebellum. Believed functions of these different regions Dorsal medial frontal cortex – executive functioning of cognitive control, self-awareness of emotional discomfort, strategic reasoning, and regulation Precuneus- part of the parietal lobe associated with self-referential and self-consciousness Inferior parietal lobe- cognitive appraisal and consideration of response strategies (also area often associated with mirror imaging) Left temporal gyrus- processes verbal information Occipital area- processes visual information Cerebellum- besides coordinating motor movement also is involved in emotional and cognitive processing  “Taken together, the observed differences in these regions suggest that men and women may differ in the extent to which they engage in verbal processing, visualization, self-referential thinking, and cognitive processing during the experience of stress and anxiety.” They also suggest that under stress men may feel anxious due to “hypoactivity” while women may feel stress due to “hyperactivity” in above noted regions. Conclusion: Men and women use different neural strategies under stress even with similarly reported stress levels  This research is still clearly in its infancy but suggests that under stress some men, may turn down activity in areas of their brains involved in executive functioning and that this might increase their vulnerability to impulsivity. Conversely, under stress some women may actually turn up activity in these regions that could lead to excessive rumination and possibly depression. The authors then extrapolate their data to suggest that men and women might possibly benefit from different stress reduction techniques in that some men might benefit more from cognitive behavioral therapy which enhances frontal lobe firing and some women from mindful meditation which dampens it.  Seo, D., Ahluwalia, A., Potenza, M. N., & Sinha, R. (2017). Gender Differences in Neural Correlates of Stress-Induced Anxiety. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 125, 115–125. Study #3 This study literally looks at what conditions men and women might seek out increased physical interaction with their dog after an agility competition. The background here is that in 2000 Dr. SE Taylor questioned whether the flight of fight response which has classically been described as a “universal” stress response, was actually applicable to both males and females. She questioned how realistic it was for a female who might be physically smaller and less muscular than her male peer to successfully fight or run away from a potential attacker. She suggested an alternative response of “tend and befriend” which suggests that under stress that women may naturally migrate towards their children as well as others within their intimate circle with the belief that a larger group may offer protection and a pooling of resources. Additional support for this theory is the idea that oxytocin, which has receptors throughout the brain and is usually found in higher amounts in women, may be released during this affiliative behavior and help to dampen the physiological cortisol stress response. This study was done to see if men and women seek out physical contact with another being (in this case their dog) in similar fashion when they are stressed. They chose to study human contact with a dog versus an interaction with another human to try and mitigate the influence of any “gender expectation” violations. Which in English means that if Rob would normally seek out Carol when he is stressed, he might decide not to do so in public (and in this case being videotaped) because he doesn't want to appear “less masculine”. As public affection with one's dog is considered less gender biased, the authors chose this interaction as a marker for affiliative behavior.  What they did: Videotaped and took cortisol saliva levels from 93 men and  91 women after they had run their dog through a competitive agility course. Recording and samples were taken as participants waited for their official score (although subjectively most participants pretty much already knew whether or not their dog had scored high enough to move on.) The researchers measured cortisol levels and how much participants petted their dog while waiting for this score. Results: 36 of results excluded because dogs did not finish course and were disqualified Overall there was no sex difference in total affiliative behavior Of first 180 seconds of video tape women petted dog on average 27 seconds and men 25 seconds When men and women perceived they lost, their cortisol level increased more than those who perceived they had advanced. Differences occurred however as to when men and women were more likely to pet their dogs Women petted them more when they sensed defeat- an additional 12 seconds compared to women who had won Men petted them more when they sensed victory- an additional 7 seconds when compared to men who had lost Conclusions: women sought out affiliative behavior when they lost, men sought it out when they won. Justin and I use this paper as a discussion point as to understanding how two people may get exposed to the same stressor and respond quite differently and importantly how they sort of bounce back from a stressful situation may also differ. This paper suggests that emotional debriefing after stressful experiences may be more helpful to some individuals than others. For more on the stress response please see Justin's new post on First10EM Sherman G, Rice L, Shuo Jin E, et al: (2017) Sex differences in cortisol's regulation of affiliative behavior. Hormones and Behavior 92, 20- 28

  Welcome to Episode 4, where Professor WIL CUNNINGHAM and I discuss the beauty of complexity, psychology’s language trap, and the unconscious processes that shape our conscious motivations. We also talk about the aesthetics of data analysis, what it might feel like to discover that ESP was real, and the various factors that lead Wil to a life in the sciences.   Wil is a Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Psychology and at the Rotman School of Management.   And Wil has received about a bazillion awards for his work, including a Janet Taylor Spence Award For Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science.   He’s the current Editor at Psychological Inquiry, and he’s served on a bunch of editorial boards, from the journal Emotion to Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.   I don’t have a Wil Cunningham book to link to here, though I do have things for you to check out if you’re interested in reading more. But before I get to that, I feel compelled to share with you a picture (left) that Wil sent me only the week before this episode was posted, that shows the real inner workings of the modern scientific laboratory: a couple of hacked together old computers that people in Wil’s lab thought were obsolete. (Extra points for the desk positioned to face the blank cinderblock wall.)  Wil and I like to use a term we invented for situations like these, which is Scrappy Science. Scrappy Science is science that boldly pushes forward when resources are not available, either in abundance or at all. And for those of you who are not scientists, here’s a little secret: Although not all science is Scrappy Science, I’d estimate that about 85% of it is. Scrappy Science is the science that scientists manage to do against the odds, when salaries are relatively low, old materials are all that’s available, and, often enough, you’ve got to just invent the tool you need because it literally doesn’t exist otherwise. Wil Cunningham is the consummate Scrappy Scientist!   And here are those readings I promised! Check them out: Hierarchical Brain Systems Support Multiple Representations of Valence and Mixed Affect Affective Flexibility: Evaluative Processing Goals Shape Amygdala Activity Attitudes and Evaluations: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective   *    *    * As always, remember that this podcast is brought to you by VQR and the Center for Media and Citizenship. Plus, we're a member of the TEEJ.FM podcast network.   AND... The music of CIRCLE OF WILLIS was composed and performed by Tom Stauffer, Gene Ruley and their band THE NEW DRAKES. You can purchase this music at their Amazon page. 

Our guest is Dr. Matt Lieberman an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Psychology Department and the co-director of Social Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory. Dr. Lieberman has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University and is a founder of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience field which is generating a lot of interest and new findings that have been in the black box of the brain. He uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to elucidate long-standing issues in social psychology, including models of self and social perception. He is the founding editor of the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. He is working on a book called, Experience Shrugged. We will focus on some of his brain research on how automatic and controlled processes interact in producing emotion and emotion regulation, self-knowledge, feelings of social exclusion, attributions about other individuals, placebo effects and automatic behavior and how we can use this information in leadership deve

A new study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience claims that disabling certain areas of the brain with transcranial magnetic stimulation can reduce a person's belief in God and negativity toward immigrants. This is obviously pretty controversial, and Anthony and Jeff have some controversial opinions about it. Hold on to your hats and try not to get offended. Get all your sweet We Have Concerns merch by swinging by http://wehaveconcerns.com/shop Hey! If you’re enjoying the show, please take a moment to rate/review it on whatever service you use to listen. Here’s the iTunes link: http://bit.ly/wehaveconcerns And here’s the Stitcher link: http://bit.ly/stitcherwhc Jeff on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jeffcannata Anthony on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acarboni Today’s story was sent in by Jugaarhound: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/301117.php If you’ve seen a story you think belongs on the show, send it to wehaveconcernsshow@gmail.com or leave it on the subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/wehaveconcerns

Episode 5 examines the social cognitive theory with emphasis on the contributions of Bandura in the area of observational learning.

Episode 6 describes the social cognitive view of reinforcement and punishment. It focuses on the influence of five cognitive features on behaviour.

Host: Paul Rokuskie Social and emotional skills come fairly easily for neurotypical individuals. But for those with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), these may be some of the most challenging skills to learn. Thankfully there is a lot of experience among educators using techniques to help individuals with ASD become more social. Join host Paul Rokuskie as he welcomes speech/language pathologist Jill Kuzma to discuss therapeutic approaches for social cognitive deficits in children with ASD.

Jonathan pursues research on consciousness, memory, the relationship between language and thought, problem-solving, and decision-making. He is particularly interested in exploring phenomena that intersect between the empirical and the philosophical such as how fluctuations in people's awareness of their experience mediate mind-wandering and how exposing individuals to philosophical positions alters their behavior. We will focus on how these discoveries can help leaders today. In 2007 he joined the faculty at UCSB. Dr. Schooler is the author or co-author of more than one hundred papers published in scientific journals or edited volumes. Dr. Schooler is currently is on the editorial boards of Consciousness and Cognition and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. His work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Center for Consciousness Studies..

Youth aggressive behavior is a challenge for those who work with adolescents. Glenn and McDonald discuss the theories of physiological activities, especially stress and heart rate corollaries to aggressive behavior, and trace adolescents’ reactions to various social experiments.

Jonathan pursues research on consciousness, memory, the relationship between language and thought, problem-solving, and decision-making. He is particularly interested in exploring phenomena that intersect between the empirical and the philosophical such as how fluctuations in people's awareness of their experience mediate mind-wandering and how exposing individuals to philosophical positions alters their behavior. We will focus on how these discoveries can help leaders today. In 2007 he joined the faculty at UCSB. Dr. Schooler is the author or co-author of more than one hundred papers published in scientific journals or edited volumes. Dr. Schooler is currently is on the editorial boards of Consciousness and Cognition and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. His work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Center for Consciousness Studies..

Neuroaesthetics | Symposium Symposium im ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, 22.-24. November 2012 In Kooperation und mit Unterstützung der Gemeinnützigen Hertie-Stiftung. How people think about the self strongly influences their social communica- tion and behavior. Recent cultural neuroscience studies have shown increas- ing evidence for modulation of neural representation of the self by cultural contexts and cultural experiences. I will present our recent research that used different psychological paradigms and different brain imaging methods to in- vestigate cultural influences on neural mechanisms underlying self-reflection on personal attributes. I will also present preliminary brain imaging results that uncover how genes may interact with culture to shape the social brain network activity involved in reflection on the self and close others. These findings are helpful for understanding the biosocial nature of neural mechanisms of human self-concept. Dr. Shihui Han is a professor at the Department of Psychology, Peking Uni- versity. He is the director of the Cultural and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. He served as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Peking University between 2003 and 2007. He studies cultural and genetic influences on neural substrates of social cognition such as self-referential processing, empathy, and theory-of-mind. He has published over a hundred research papers in journals such as Nature Review Neuroscience, Annual Review of Psychology, Brain, Journal of Neuroscience, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Psychological Science, NeuroImage, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Human Brain Mapping, Journalof Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Social Neuroscience, etc. He is now the chief editor of Culture and Brain and the associate editor of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscienc, Social Neuroscience, and Acta Psychologica Sinica.

Neuroaesthetics | Symposium Symposium im ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, 22.-24. November 2012 In Kooperation und mit Unterstützung der Gemeinnützigen Hertie-Stiftung. The study of culture and biology have historically been stratified, however, recent theoretical and methodological advances in cultural and biological sciences provide novel opportunities for understanding the nature and origin of human diversity by bridging these gaps. Cultural neuroscience is an emerging interdisciplinary science that investigates cultural variation in psychological, neural and genomic processes as a means of articulating the bidirectional relationship of these processes and their emergent properties. Here I will discuss how cultural and genetic diversity affect mind, brain and behavior across multiple timescales. Specifically, in this talk, I will review recent evidence elucidating the effect of cultural values, practices, and beliefs, such as individualism-collectivism, racial identification, and preference for social hierarchy, on brain and behavior. I will also present evidence for culture-gene coevolution of individualism-collectivism and the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR). Finally, I will examine the implications of cultural neuroscience research for addressing population health disparities and public policy across the globe. Dr. Joan Y. Chiao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University in 2006 studying social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Her main research interests include cultural neuroscience of emotion and social interaction, social and affective neuroscience across development, social dominance and affiliation, and integrating psychology and neuroscience research with public policy and population health issues. Chiao currently serves on the board of several journals including Culture and Brain, NeuroImage, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Social Neuroscience, Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. From 2009 to 2010, she served as editor for an edited volume of Progress in Brain Research on cultural neuroscience called Cultural Neuroscience: Cultural Influences on Brain Function and a special issue on cultural neuroscience in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Dr. Chiao is a recipient of funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Technology. In 2011, she was named a Rising Star by the American Psychological Society and received a NIMH Early Career International Travel Award.

Jonathan pursues research on consciousness, memory, the relationship between language and thought, problem-solving, and decision-making. He is particularly interested in exploring phenomena that intersect between the empirical and the philosophical such as how fluctuations in people's awareness of their experience mediate mind-wandering and how exposing individuals to philosophical positions alters their behavior. We will focus on how these discoveries can help leaders today. In 2007 he joined the faculty at UCSB. Dr. Schooler is the author or co-author of more than one hundred papers published in scientific journals or edited volumes. Dr. Schooler is currently is on the editorial boards of Consciousness and Cognition and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. His work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Center for Consciousness Studies..

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Jonathan pursues research on consciousness, memory, the relationship between language and thought, problem-solving, and decision-making. He is particularly interested in exploring phenomena that intersect between the empirical and the philosophical such as how fluctuations in people's awareness of their experience mediate mind-wandering and how exposing individuals to philosophical positions alters their behavior. We will focus on how these discoveries can help leaders today. In 2007 he joined the faculty at UCSB. Dr. Schooler is the author or co-author of more than one hundred papers published in scientific journals or edited volumes. Dr. Schooler is currently is on the editorial boards of Consciousness and Cognition and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. His work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Center for Consciousness Studies..

Our guest is Dr. Matt Lieberman an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Psychology Department and the co-director of Social Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory. Dr. Lieberman has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University and is a founder of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience field which is generating a lot of interest and new findings that have been in the black box of the brain. He uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to elucidate long-standing issues in social psychology, including models of self and social perception. He is the founding editor of the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. He is working on a book called, Experience Shrugged. We will focus on some of his brain research on how automatic and controlled processes interact in producing emotion and emotion regulation, self-knowledge, feelings of social exclusion, attributions about other individuals, placebo effects and automatic behavior and how we can use this information in leadership developme

Our guest is Dr. Matt Lieberman an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Psychology Department and the co-director of Social Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory. Dr. Lieberman has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University and is a founder of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience field which is generating a lot of interest and new findings that have been in the black box of the brain. He uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to elucidate long-standing issues in social psychology, including models of self and social perception. He is the founding editor of the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. He is working on a book called, Experience Shrugged. We will focus on some of his brain research on how automatic and controlled processes interact in producing emotion and emotion regulation, self-knowledge, feelings of social exclusion, attributions about other individuals, placebo effects and automatic behavior and how we can use this information in leadership deve