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Tag: Human Behavior

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446 – Your Wakeup Call: Life Lessons from FBI Negotiation Trainer and Suicide Prevention Specialist, Dr. Mark Goulston

Dr. Mark Goulston is dying to tell you about what mortality is teaching him. He is a distinguished psychiatrist, a hostage negotiations trainer, and […]

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445 – Bridging the Divide: Using Curiosity as a Solution for Division with Scott Shigeoka

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5850/445-bridging-the-divide-using-curiosity-as-a-solution-for-division-with-scott-shigeoka.mp3?updated=1701738854

It’s no secret that division, loneliness, and polarization are on the rise—to catastrophic impact on our personal lives. While we […]

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442 – Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way with Kieran Setiya

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5821/442-life-is-hard-how-philosophy-can-help-us-find-our-way-with-kieran-setiya.mp3?updated=1698110422

Kieran Setiya teaches philosophy at MIT, working mainly in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. He is an author […]

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441 – Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border Between Life and Death, with Dr. Alexander Batthyany

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5814/441-threshold-terminal-lucidity-and-the-border-between-life-and-death-with-dr-alexander-batthyany.mp3?updated=1697063552

Prof. Alexander Batthyány, PhD, holds the Chair of the Research Institute for Theoretical Psychology and Personalist Studies at Pázmány Péter […]

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439 – The Perfection Trap – Learning to let go and focus on what matters most with Thomas Curran

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5798/439-the-perfection-trap-learning-to-let-go-and-focus-on-what-matters-most-with-thomas-curran.mp3?updated=1694478858

Thomas Curran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics. […]

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437 – Dealing with Stress, Anxiety, and Panic. How to turn anxious energy into a useful tool with Dr. Luana Marques

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5782/437-dealing-with-stress-anxiety-and-panic-how-to-turn-anxious-energy-into-a-useful-tool-with-dr-luana-marques.mp3?updated=1692061850

Dr. Luana Marques is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Community Psychiatry PRIDE at […]

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435 – Your IQ doesn’t matter, it’s all about XQ. How to leverage experiential intelligence with Soren Kaplan

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5767/435-your-iq-doesnt-matter-its-all-about-xq-how-to-leverage-experiential-intelligence-with-soren-kaplan.mp3?updated=1689640615

First we had IQ to predict success. Then Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Now, Experiential Intelligence (XQ) expands our understanding of what’s […]

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Episode 433 – A New Theory that Explains the Mysteries of Life with Dr. Neil Theise

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5749/episode-433-a-new-theory-that-explains-the-mysteries-of-life-with-dr-neil-theise.mp3?updated=1687217583

Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Through his scientific research, he has […]

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Episode 431 – What does it mean to be you? A powerful exploration of identity with Stanford psychologist Brian Lowery

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5731/episode-431-what-does-it-mean-to-be-you-a-powerful-exploration-of-identity-with-stanford-psychologist-brian-lowery.mp3?updated=1684805628

Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing that there is no essential […]

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429 – The Surprising Benefits of ‘Bad’ English: Lessons from Linguistics Expert Valerie Fridland

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5717/429-the-surprising-benefits-of-bad-english-lessons-from-linguistics-expert-valerie-fridland.mp3?updated=1682379745

Have you ever been criticized for the way you speak? If you have, you’re not alone. As human beings, our […]

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