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Current Directions in Psychological Science Podcast

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Episode publication activity over the past year

Episodes

Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chronic pain and substance use disorders (SUDs) are common and debilitating, and they often persist over the longer term. Each represents a significan...

Implementing Evidence-Based Mental-Health Treatments

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, professor at Stanford University, recentely wrote about key considerations regarding the implementation of mental-health trea...

The Promise and Peril of Genetics

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists can now comprehensively scan the genome, testing variation across millions of genetic markers. Large consortia of scientists are analyzing ...

Personality Change Through Digital-Coaching Interventions

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

By definition, personality traits are relatively stable, but recent research has begun to investigate whether individuals can intentionally change the...

Field Experiments on Social Media

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Studying online behavior can further understanding of misinformation and political psychology. Mosleh and colleagues discuseds the strengths, weakness...

Daylong Mobile Audio Recordings Reveal Multitimescale Dynamics in Infants’ Vocal Productions and Auditory Experiences

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Warlaumont and colleagues reviewed recent research about how infants’ vocal productions and auditory experiences are organized over a day, with impl...

What’s to Come of All This Tracking “Who We Are”? The Intelligence Example

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Despite increased requirements and encouragements to track what we do and how we do it in different areas of our lives, from job performance to sleep ...

Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

According to the active-passive model, social networking sites (SNSs) can increase well-being when used actively to interact with others but c...

Parsing ADHD with Temperament Traits

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Developing the understanding of ADHD heterogeneity appears promising when researchers consider dimensions of trait affectivity. These dimensions can i...

Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Teresa Treat, Professor of Psychology at University of Iowa, interviews David Barlow, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry at Boston Un...

Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Teresa Treat, Professor of Psychology at University of Iowa, interviews Bruce Cuthbert, Head of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Unit at the U...

Evidence and Implications from a Natural Experiment of Prenatal Androgen Effects on Gendered Behavior

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Scie...

The Fetal Origins of Human Psychological Development

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Scie...

Cognition and Emotion in Extreme Political Action

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Scie...

The Psychological Reach of Culture in Animals’ Lives

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Scie...

Placebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common?

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Scie...

The Privacy Mismatch: Evolved Intuition in a Digital World

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Scien...

What Your Nose Knows: Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Responses to the Scent of Another Person

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Scie...

Why facts are not enough: Understanding and managing the motivated rejection of science

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Scien...

Promoting Savings for Financial Resilience: Expanding the Psychological Perspective

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Scie...

Pornography Use and Psychological Science: A Call for Consideration

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Scien...

How Can Cognitive Science Research Help Improve Education?

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Scie...

The Psychology of Intolerance: Unpacking Diverse Understandings of Intolerance

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Scie...

Digital Emotion Regulation

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Scien...

Social Structure Learning

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone interviews Sam Gershman, Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard University Interviewed on the 7th of April 2020

What we could only learn about holistic face processing from non-face objects

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Scien...

Psychological mechanisms forged by cultural evolution

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Scien...

Stress Reactivity: What Pushes Us Higher, Faster, and Longer – and Why It Matters

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Distinguished University Professor, and Brumbaugh Chair in Brain Research and Teaching, and Director of the Ins...

Neuroscience of moral behavior: How insights from neuroscience help understand the social origins of (im)moral behavior

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Naomi Ellemers, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Interviewed on November 25, 2020

Learning to write words

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Discussion with Rebecca Treiman, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Burke & Elizabeth High Baker Professor of Child Development in Arts ...

Cultural dynamics for sustainability: How can humanity craft cultures of sustainability

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Yoshihisa Kashima, Professor in the School of Psychology at University of Melbourne in Australia. Interviewed on November 23, 2020

Probabilistic Biases Meet the Bayesian Brain

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Interview on November 16, 2020, with Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Warwick Business School, and cofounder of Decis...