SuperPsyched with Dr. Adam Dorsay
Episodes
#210 Korean Adoption | Joshua Heitzmann, PhD
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Between the early 1950s and the early 2000s, over 150,000 Korean children were adopted to the United States. In fact, the guest on my episode cites a ...
#209 You as a Sovereign Person | Emma Seppälä, PhD
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome back—a friend of the podcast, Dr. Emma Seppala (https://www.emmaseppala.com/). Emma is a professor at Y...
#208 Are You a Perfectionist? | Gregory Chasson PhD
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Perfectionism. It can have its upsides and can catapult us to new heights. But it can also be stifling, cause pain to the perfectionist, and can cause...
#207 Understanding 20-Somethings | Meg Jay, PhD
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you remember your 20s? Perhaps you are in your 20s! Regardless, for most of us, our 20s featured a different series of challenges than our teen yea...
#206 Divorce, Children, and Custody Evaluations | Mike Kerner, Ph.D.
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The current estimation that a marriage in the US will end in divorce is somewhere between 43 to 45%. Divorce is also regularly cited as the second hig...
#205 Breast Cancer: A Psychologist Talks about Her Experience | Anna Lock, PsyD
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cancer. The “C” word. The disease that is so feared, people often whisper it in sentences. Yet, according to recent statistics, nearly 40% of us w...
# 204 We Should NOT Be Friends | Will Schwalbe
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine two students in college: one is a gay male, and the other is a straight super jock. The gay male is quiet and introverted, and the straight gu...
#203 Guy Kawasaki | Think Remarkable
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Back in the 90’s when email was still new, one of the first viral emails I received was a commencement address to a group of high school students. T...
#202 Autonomy-Supportive Parenting | Emily Edlynn, PhD
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who is a parent knows that parenting can be really hard. But, fear not, help is here! This episode unpacks a great parenting style that encoura...
#201 Improv Wisdom | Stanford Emerita Patricia Ryan Madson
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re a listener of this podcast, you probably have figured out that I am a huge fan of improv. In fact, this is my third improv-related episode...
#200 Motivational Interviewing for the Behavior Change YOU Want | Michelle Drapkin, Ph.D., ABPP
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us have behaviors we'd LOVE to change. But many of those stubborn behaviors are hard to alter. And if we want our behavior to change, we p...
#199 Winning at the Olympics While Anxious | 2x Medalist Ori Sasson
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you are an athlete at the Olympics. You have trained for years and years. You have dreamed of this moment. Your entire country is watching you...
#198 American Born Chinese: The Novel & Miniseries | Gene Luen Yang
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, my 14-year-old son came home from school with a book in hand and excitedly said, “Dad, you’ve got to read this book!My son has never s...
#197 Wisdom from A Nobel Laureate on Work & Life | Dr. Robert Lefkowitz
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's an old riddle- you've probably heard it- that goes "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The answer? "Practice." Yet I've never heard anybody ask...
#196 The Hidden World of an Undertaker | Todd Harra
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the time of the release of this episode, it is busy season for mortuaries. According to the CDC, the time of year Americans die most frequently is ...
#195 Think Faster and Talk Smarter | Matt Abrahams
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How many of us just wish that we could think faster and talk smarter? I'm going to take a guess that pretty much all of us would like that skill. ...
#194 Inside the World of a Safari Guide | Peter Allison
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few summers ago, my wife and I went on a trip to four South African countries. We spent a large portion of the trip on safari, and it was everything...
#193 The Science of Success | Ruth Gotian, Ed.D.
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I'm going to take a guess that most of us--pretty much all of us--would love to be hugely successful in our chosen fields. Unfortunately, there was no...
#192 Get Curious, not Furious | AJ Jacobs
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many New Year resolutions can be directly or indirectly related to this year-end episode’s content: cultivating curiosity. When we are overcome by...
#191 The Inventor of the Word FOMO Talks About FOMO | Patrick McGinnis
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We all experience some degree of FOMO, also known as the fear of missing out. In fact, it is baked into our genes. Like social comparison, FOMO has co...
#190 Lessons from a Man with 17 Degrees | Ben Bolger, Ph.D. (plus 16 other degrees!)
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Choosing a college major can be daunting. Personally, I changed my major a few times, at least partially because there was so much that I wanted to le...
#189 Highly Sensitive People | Alane Freund, MFT
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Has anyone ever said to you, “Wow, you are too sensitive!”? Or do you know someone who seems very sensitive? I’m guessing the answer to at least...
#188 The Power of a Name | Alexandra Watkins
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's in a name? Turns out a lot! Whether you are naming a company, a project, a meeting room, a team, or a baby, names are deeply meaningful. In f...
#187 How Our Expectations Can Influence Outcomes: The Science Called The Expectation Effect | David Robson
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Expectation Effect Shownotes Do our expectations affect outcomes? Are there things we can do to increase the likelihood of getting outcomes we want? A...
#186 Listening to Our Bodies | Rachel Fleischman, LCSW
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn’t long ago that the notion of the mind-body connection was considered New Agey. It was as if the mind and the body were two totally separate...
#185 The Autistic Advantage | Olivia Fox Cabane
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Autism has been rightfully getting lots of media airtime lately. Indeed, it is a deeply misunderstood condition and, sadly, 85% of autistic adults are...
#184 Raising Children Who Aren't A#@holes | Melinda Wenner Moyer
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Parents overwhelmingly want to raise kind children. Yet many concerning trends are on the rise including narcissism and bullying, leaving many parents...
#183 Harvard Business Review CHRO, Angela Cheng-Cimini | Working Remote vs In-Person
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Remember when work was a place we went? And, remember when zoom only meant going fast or, if you are from my generation, a goofy PBS children's TV sho...
#182 Imposter No More | Dr. Jill Stoddard
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since you've seen the title of this episode, I'm guessing that you have experienced some level a phenomenon called imposterism. It is usually referred...
#181 Civility: What It Is, How To Rock It & Why We Need it More than Ever | Alexandra Hudson
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is civility? What are the consequences of its absence? And why is it so important? Many people may inadvertently believe the words “polite” a...
#180 Second City's Kelly Leonard | Improv & The Power of "Yes And"
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Improv isn’t just for comedy. If there are superfoods like blueberries that are good for your health, improv may just be a super-skill that has impl...
#179 Charity: How We Get So Much More than We Give, When We Give | Mark Gerson
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We humans tend to be empathic, and our brains reward us with hits of dopamine when we help our fellow beings. So, it is no surprise that when we do go...
#178 Community: Why We Need It & How to Create It | Charles Vogl
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has recently warned of a loneliness epidemic in the United States and has cited research suggesting that loneli...
#177 Smash Mouth Guitarist Greg Camp, Remembering Steve Harwell
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Labor Day, Steve Harwell, the front man of Smash Mouth, died at the age of 56. Like many people, I’m a big fan of the band and I’m really sad a...
#176 The Future of Jobs | Jeff Wald
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
These days there is understandably a lot of talk and a lot of fear about the future of jobs. Speculations are plentiful and some are downright grim. ...
#175 We Must Talk About Ramen! | Rory Dent
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve covered many important topics on this podcast, but this one is arguably the most important: it’s about ramen. OK, I jest. But if you are a...
#174 Japanese Psychology Lessons: How Do You Want to Use Your 30,000 Days? | Gregg Krech
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many of you know that I’m kind of in love with Japan. I lived there in my 20’s for nearly three years, I studied the language intensely, and becau...
#173 Career Hacks: Secrets They Never Taught You in School | Mark Herschberg
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like most of us, I have wished many things were taught to me at school that were not on the curriculum. While so much of what we need to learn can onl...
#172 The Psychologist to Comedians | Ildiko Tabori, Ph.D.
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Comedians use their genius to give us joy, laughter, and even to help us think about things differently. And yet, those same people who bring so much ...
#171 The Shadow of The Wind - Adam Dorsay, Psy.D.
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s summer as I write this and, for many of us, it’s high season for leisure reading.It causes me to think of my all-time favorite novel… the o...
#170 The Ted Lasso Effect | Adam Dorsay, Psy.D.
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the Ted Lasso series finale in our rearview mirrors, I felt the need to record a solo episode tribute to the brilliant creator, Bill Lawrence, an...
#169 Lesser-Known Sex Stuff | Ross Benes
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Without sex, pretty much none of us would be here. And yet, merely talking about the thing that brought us here makes many of us squirm with discomfor...
#168 Helping Kids with Feelings & Friendships | Dr. Eileen Kennedy Moore
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that when we invest a dollar well, over time with compounding interest, the dollar blossoms in value. Yet, the same can be said for our ha...
#167 Being on the Frontlines for Food Policy | Dr. Michael Jacobson
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the expression that we are what we eat. Yet few have devoted their lives to the science behind this idea more than the guest of this episo...
#166 When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity | Janna Koretz, Psy.D.
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever had with the belief that you were only as good as your results at work? Perhaps, if this is the case, you can identify with your work so...
#165 How Storytelling Helps Business | Donna Griffit
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps the most magical and hypnotic words ever uttered in sequence are, “Once Upon a time.” Don’t believe me? Let’s look at one of the mos...
#164 Dating, Intimacy & Sex Later in Life | Carol Kramer, LCSW
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dating is one of the most talked about topics in my office. And for good reason: Romantic love plays such a big part of happiness for so many of us an...
#163 Behind the Scenes of College Admissions and Beyond | Dr. Irena Smith
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Very frequently in my office I hear from parents struggling with their child's college application process. The range of their emotions can be anywher...
#162 Leaning into LIfe Enhancing Anxiety | Kirk Schneider, Ph.D.
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anxiety is generally thought of something to avoid—especially when we catastrophize—you know that thing our brain does when we imagine worst-case ...
#161 Psychedelics & Microdosing | Paul Austin
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When I was growing up, psychedelics like LSD and mushrooms were considered quite taboo. Sure, they were talked about in stoner circles but pretty much...
#160 Why We Need to Be In Each Other's Care & How to Do It | Stan Tatkin, Psy.D.
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Simply put, our primary relationships play a big part in how happy we are. Yet our brains are not really designed to be good at relationships; instead...
#159 Real-World Negotiation | Harvard Negotiation Project's Joshua Weiss, Ph.D.
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are oh, so many myths around the topic of negotiation and conflict. Some of us believe that we have to be hard, shrewd, and that it’s a zero-s...
#158 Big Talk: The Antidote for Small Talk | Kalina Silverman
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever left a social event and, after talking all night to various people, felt like nothing real was said? Sure, if a transcriptionist followe...
#157 An Actor Who Became 224 Different People on TV & Film | Spencer Garrett, Actor & Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Member
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many people fantasize about what it would be like to be an actor. And what many of us don't know is just how long the long game is in pursuing tha...
#156 Maroon 5: Before, During & After | Maroon 5 Founding Drummer, Ryan Dusick, AMFT
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like many people in my generation, I was rock music-obsessed when I was growing up. My wall was covered in posters of Zeppelin, Rush, Van Halen, The S...
#155 The Long Game | Duke University's School of Business, Dorie Clark
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ok, tell the truth—there’s gotta be a project you started but didn’t finish. For me, I’ll admit, there are lots of those. Sometimes, I realize...
#154 Fake News & Disinformation: Why It's Here & What Can We Do About It? | Eric Schurenberg, Former CEO of Inc. & Fast Company
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’m guessing that in grade school at some point you played the game of Telephone. You know, that game where you and your classmates or friends get i...
#153 Children & Grief | Korie Leigh, PhD
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talking about death and grief is not easy, and it’s especially challenging to talk with children about them. Given social conventions, we tend to sp...
#152 How the Best Practices of Startups Relate to Your Life | Alisa Cohn
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alisa Shownotes Startups are popping up all over the globe and, having been at one during my corporate days, I can attest to the fact that they are ve...
#150 My Dad, an 83-Year-Old Retired Physician & Lifelong Learner | Richard Dorsay, MD, PhD (HC)
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Suddenly, we are at episode 150 of the SuperPsyched Podcast. To celebrate this milestone, I thought I would interview the most influential man in my l...
#149 Two Therapists Geek Out to the Craft of Therapy | Michael Alcee, Ph.D.
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You may have heard terms like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or psychoanalysis that describe different schools of thought or orientations for therapy. A...
#148 Sleep is a Skill | Mollie Eastman
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If I were to ask you what skill matters more to our physical and mental health than just about any skill out there, what would you say? Well, since yo...
#147 Creativity & Ideaflow: A Huge Difference-Maker for Success in Everything | Stanford School of Design's Jeremy Utley
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I think most of us have, at some point, wished we had certain information years ago that is available today. That’s certainly how I felt after I rea...
#146 The Power of Awe in 15 Seconds | Michael Amster, MD
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if I told you that there was an exercise that anyone can do in just 15 seconds three times a day that, when researched, showed a decrease depress...
#145 Getting Out of Your Way and Getting More Love By Knowing Your Parts | Toni Herbine-Blank, MFT
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As you might imagine, the most talked about topic in my office is relationships. To paraphrase a great quote, relationships are one of life’s bigges...
#144 Why Donuts Have Holes & When Less Is More | Leidy Klotz, Ph.D.
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Quick question—when you do math, what’s easier for you: addition or subtraction? For most of us, I’m guessing the answer is addition. While you ...
#143 The Case for Spiritually Intelligent Leadership (Regardless of Your Spiritual Beliefs) | Yosi Amram, PhD
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I have the pleasure of working with many leaders in Silicon Valley. And among the things that are discussed in my office, the quality of leadership sh...
#142 - The Secrets of Reading People | Blake Eastman
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you could have the magical power to read people, what they were thinking and feeling, would you want that ability? I imagine it’d be a mixed bles...
#141 Work, Parent, Thrive | Yael Schonbrun, PhD
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are no two ways about it. Parenting is hard. Add a full-time job to the mix and the pressures of modern life and, wow! It’s a miracle we can d...
#140 New Year's Aspirations with AJ Jacobs & Me
25 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All right, dear listeners, New Year’s is upon us and, if you’re like me, you may be thinking about your resolutions! And, if you’re like me, at ...
#139 The Anatomy of Anxiety Made Simple | Ellen Vora, M.D.
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To be human is to experience anxiety. To some extent, our survival requires it. Unfortunately, anxiety can more frequently impede our living more than...
#138 Sport Psychology Can Improve Your Life | Dr. Jonathan Fader
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Even if you’re not an athlete, sport psychology can positively change your life. Years ago, when I came upon a textbook on sport psychology, my firs...
#137 The Mind of a Cat | Dr. Kristyn Vitale
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It will come as no surprise to my regular listeners that I love exploring the bond between pets and people. My life has been vastly improved by pets a...
#136 Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Find Their True North | Dr. Stephen Rollnick
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been given incredibly good advice, but didn’t follow it? I’m guessing that, for most of us, the answer is a big yes! It may have bee...
#135 Gratitude Episode | Adam Dorsay, Psy.D. Solo
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Well, dear listeners, Thanksgiving is upon us, and what better topic to dive into, than gratitude! Not so long ago, gratitude was kind of considered a...
#134 Mastery Secrets: Tiny Tweaks that Get You from 94% to 97% | Elliot Roe
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us grew up with the idea that we’ve got to spend a lot of time improving on our areas of weakness. While that may be true, and certainly imp...
#133 Understanding Stigma & How to Handle It | Dr. Stephen Hinshaw
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Among the most painful of human experiences is feeling rejected. In fact, the brain can't tell the difference between social rejection and physical pa...
#132 Leveraging Intelligence from Our Animal Side | Beth Anstandig, MFT
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There's a great quote from James Joyce: “Mr. Smith lived a short distance from his body.” As you'll hear in this interview, we have evolved over t...
#131 Time Optimizing Tools & Strategies | Nick Sonnenberg
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Regardless of who you are or where you live, one thing all 7+ billion of us on earth have in common is the restriction of time. None of us has more th...
#130 Beastie Boys: Their Profound Teachings | Dr. Adam Dorsay Solo
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Beastie Boys made a huge splash nearly 36 years ago with their breakthrough album, Licensed to Ill. It was a moment in time that served as somethi...
#129 Dr. Marion Nestle | A Fascinating Life in Food Studies & Food Politics
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We literally cannot survive without food. And yet, until 1996, Food Studies as an academic discipline wasn’t even a thing until my guest, Dr. Marion...
#128 Making Strangers Laugh | Comedian Raj Sharma
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us can make our friends and family laugh. But as comedian Billy Eichner recently noted, it is really hard to make a group of strangers laugh. ...
#127 The Science of Stuck | Britt Frank, MSW, LSCSW, SEP
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Among the least pleasant experiences in life is feeling stuck. That stuck feeling comes in multiple forms and we've all felt themes and variations of ...
#126 A Black Musician Who Helped Hundreds of Men Get Out of the KKK | Daryl Davis
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In my last episode, I explored the topic of how minds change. In this episode, we take that theme from the abstract and academic to the real and extre...
#125 How Minds Change | David McRaney
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We humans like to be right about things. As you’ll hear in this episode, our self-image and our perception of being trustworthy to others can feel t...
#124 Children & Trauma | Melissa Goldberg Mintz, Ph.D.
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A struggle for any parent is seeing their child in pain. Even when the pain is small, we have an impulse to fix that pain. And when the child’s pain...
#123 Bringing Levity & Empathy to Serious Situations: Lessons from a Pediatric Oncology Nurse | Marc Bader, RN
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the cliché that laughter is the best medicine. In addition to laughter, research suggests that levity and empathy are also great medicine...
#122 Girls & ADHD | Dr. Stephen Hinshaw
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When I was a child, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder was a term that was hardly known by laypeople. Over the past few decades, the condition a...
#121 Sustainable Happiness at Work | Dr. Emma Seppala
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a Silicon Valley-based psychologist, I frequently hear from my clients about their work woes. These woes are often the result of companies who erro...
#120 Community: How & Why to Create It | Jon Levy
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone familiar with my work knows I care a lot about friendship and relationships. As it turns out, one of the biggest predictors of our health is th...
#119 Bartender Wisdom | Matthew "Zeke" Zeka
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Baseball legend Yogi Berra had some of the all-time best quotes. Although he has been gone for nearly a decade, Yogi-isms are plentiful and are still ...
#118 The Unselfie | Michele Borba, EDD
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If I asked you what leads to success, what would you say? I imagine most of us think about schooling, work experience, and the quality of our social n...
#117 Winning with Underdogs: Hiring People with Disabilities | Dr. Gil Winch
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A large percentage of the population is under-employed but wants to be a part of the workforce. I’m talking about people who have disabilities of al...
#116 This Is Us & Summer Break | Adam Solo
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Summer is here and Season Two of SuperPsyched is a rap! I will be taking a brief break and, in all likelihood, return in late July or early August. To...
#115 Be Here Now: Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni shares why he founded a company creating phone-free spaces
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A few months ago, my family and I plus about 20,000 other people went to see a live comedy event. What made it so unusual was that none of the 20,000 ...
#114 Exercises for Your Brain | Susan Krauss Whitbourne, PhD, ABPP
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The human brain is the most complex structure known in the entire universe. Yet, despite its incredible power, its capacity declines with the passage ...
#113 Terry Real, LCSW | Building a Loving Relationship & Overriding Impulses that Interfere
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Research indicates that the biggest predictor of happiness—at least for most of us—is the quality of our relationships. And yet, so much of how we...
#112 Lori Gottlieb, MFT | Part Two of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever had such a great conversation that you simply had to have more time? Silly question, I know! We've all had that. One of mine recently wa...
#111 How to Fix a Broken Heart | Guy Winch, Ph.D.
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Heartbreak is a painful part of life. When we’re in it, it can be all-consuming, exhausting, and overwhelming. And to be sure, the skill to attend t...
#110 Transcending Trauma | Frank Anderson, MD
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trauma sucks. And, to varying degrees, we’ve all experienced it. Research shows that its effects can impact and disturb developmental phases of life...