We may think we are making decisions based on choices that are in front of us, but it turns out that’s not the case. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head. Dr. Art Markman , and Dr. Bob Duke discuss a recent study about how we determine the choices we have. The post Determining Choices appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
Recent discussion about the dissemination of fake N95 masks inspired this edition of Two Guys on Your Head. Dr. Art Markman , and Dr. Bob Duke discuss why fakes can be so disconcerting and why we are more likely to be dupped because of time. The post The Psychology of a Fake appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
DYOR stands for Do Your Own Research. It is a common acronym used throughout the internet due to how fast and easily misinformation can spread. It is encouraging people to research things and become informed before making a decision. However, it turns out it’s not so easy to do your own research for a variety of reasons that have to do with human psychology and culture. In the second in a two-part series on the psychology of doing your own research Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman , and D...
DYOR stands for Do Your Own Research. It is a common acronym used throughout the internet due to how fast and easily misinformation can spread. It is encouraging people to research things and become informed before making a decision. However, it turns out it’s not so easy to do your own research for a variety of reasons that have to do with human psychology and culture. In our first in a two-part series on the psychology of doing your own research Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman , and Dr...
A recent study suggests there are 4 characteristics that mentally well people share: openness to feelings, openness to emotions, truthfulness, and they’re not neurotic. But what does that really mean? In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke we’ll conclude our series unpacking each characteristic with a discussion of neuroticism. The post Neuroticism appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
A recent study suggests there are 4 characteristics that mentally well people share: openness to feelings, openness to emotions, truthfulness, and they’re not neurotic. But what does that really mean? In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke continue our series unpacking each characteristic with a discussion of “truthfulness.” The post Truthfulness appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
You may think that bookending a critique in two compliments is a good strategy, but it turns out it has unintended negative consequences. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the psychology of the “sh*t sandwich.” The post The Sh*t Sandwich appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
Loyalty is an interesting and elusive concept. As much as we may profess our loyalty to a certain organization, institution, person, belief system, etc. if that bond–as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head , –is only as strong as your last dissenting act, it may be time to rethink that relationship. The post Loyalty and Dissent (Rebroadcast) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
Are extroverts really happier than introverts? It turns out, maybe, but there is more to the story. In the third installment of our Two Guys on Your Head series on attributes of mental wellness, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about a subcomponent of the personality characteristic of extroversion that has to do with feeling positive emotions. The post Feeling Positive Emotions appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
It turns out that being open to feelings–happy, sad, angry, uncomfortable…– is an important element of mental wellness. But there is a lot to unpack. In the second installment of KUT’s Two Guys on Your Head series on the characteristics of mental wellness, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about a facet of the personality trait of “openness to experience” that has to do with “openness to feelings.” The post Openness To Feelings appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
A recent study suggests there are 4 characteristics that mentally well people share: openness to feelings, openness to emotions, truthfulness, and they’re not neurotic. But what does that really mean? In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke unpack this study and talk about what it can teach us about understanding our own and others’ mental health. The post Characteristics of The Mentally Well appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
The idea that money doesn’t make you happy is easy to get behind if you have it, but if you don’t it’s a hard one to buy into (pun intended). Yet the correlation between money and happiness is more complicated than one might think. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explain the relationship between money, security, opportunity, and happiness. The post Money and Happiness appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
Why is it hard to have just one of those delicious slices of pound cake over the holidays? Well, it turns out it has less to do with the creamy butter and more to do with the way our brains react to those sweet white grains of sugar. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss the ways our brains respond to sugar by releasing dopamine. While we may think this dopamine is supposed to make us feel good, what the chemicals in our brains are trying to do is to...
Giving someone a compliment is more complicated than it might seem, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , the benefits of compliments are extensive. The post Compliments appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
Because we know “how” things work sometimes we think we understand “why” these things work as they do, and that can be a problem. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the difference between “how” vs. “why” knowledge, and why it’s important to recognize what you really need to know. The post How vs. Why Knowledge (Rebroadcast) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
It doesn’t feel good when you can’t express your emotions, but the effect of repressing emotions can have reproductions far beyond just feeling bad. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the psychology of repressing emotions. The post Repressing Emotions appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
One could ask, if we need anger management why don’t we also need management for other emotions? Turns out anger management isn’t a new thing at all and, as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , for good reason. The post Anger Management appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
We might not have the most positive associations with anger, and for good reason. Anger can be threatening and lead to destruction, but it can also move us to get off the dime and do something. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about anger and motivation. The post Anger and Motivation appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
There are some things that just feel like they’re true. For example, the idea that people who are gifted musicians are also good at learning math, or vice versa. However, there isn’t any data that suggests that there are any links in the brain between these proclivities. As Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , we underestimate the role emotions play in what we believe to be true. The post Math, Music, and The Brain appeared first on KUT & KUT...
We have a limited number of ways to experience the world psychologically, but many ways to interpret that experience. In that interpretation, the words we use are very important and perhaps in surprising ways. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the language we use to describe emotions and why we should be paying more attention to it. The post The Language of Emotion appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
A listener wrote in: “Please take a moment to address why September 11, 2001, is still a cultural touchstone, but February 26, 1993, was so easily forgotten.” Thank you for the question Bob M. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about remembering 9/11 and outcome bias. The post Outcome Bias appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
When we live through a profound and historic event we have a different understanding of it than if we just read about it. That has a complex and interesting significance on how we see the world. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the psychology of remembering 9/11. The post Remembering 9/11 appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
As humans, we don’t come ready to interact with the world when we are born. We have to learn a language, we have to learn how to roll over, to walk, to hold things, we have to learn all kinds of things. One thing that psychologists have been asking for a long time is how this learning happens. The work of one researcher, the late Albert Bandura, who passed July 26, 2021, was integral in understanding the role observation plays in this learning process. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , ...
Why do we continue to believe in ideas that sound scientific long after they have been scientifically proven to be incorrect? That is the question that Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke take on in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head . The post Bad Science (Rebroadcast) appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
Lila Gleitman was an American professor of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. who passed on August 8, 2021, at the age of 91. She was an internationally renowned expert on language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics, focusing on children’s learning of their first language. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman , and Dr. Bob Duke it’s Lila Gleitman; her work, her creativity, and her legacy. The post Lila Gleitman appeared first on KUT &...
We make sense of things by creating stories about them; our brains want to connect the dots. But it turns out that life has its own sequence that sometimes doesn’t make much sense. This brings us to COVID and the illogical logic of the evolution of the virus that keeps going even after some thought things would get back to “normal” with a vaccine. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about how the emotional rollercoaster of living with COVID mirrors th...
Mentorships can be helpful if they are set up well. Yet, as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke point out in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head , so often they’re not. The post Building Effective Mentorships appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
There are a lot of resources and people who offer advice every day, but not all advice is equal. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the psychology of giving and taking advice. The post The Psychology of Advice appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
We’ve all been through a lot during the COVID 19 pandemic, and some of us are deciding to use it as an opportunity to take a leap into the unknown. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , with Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke , we talk about the psychology of making big life changes. The post The Pandemic and Big Life Changes appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
We express a lot with our gestures, but as Dr. Art Markman, and Dr. Bob Duke discuss in this edition of Two Guys on Your Head , there is a lot more than communication happening when we’re waving our hands or bobbing our heads. The post Gestures appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts ....
