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Love through a scientific lens: Our true capacity to connect
Positive emotions expert, social psychologist Barbara Fredrickson has some advice for all of us. It’s time to upgrade our view of ...
Air Date: February 3, 2014
ListenSuper Bowl Sunday a good time for addicted gamblers to consider future
With New Jersey hosting its first Super Bowl ever, excitement has been growing across the state. Even more importantly, betting is alread ...
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Any parent with a teenager can tell you that their child’s adolescent years can be confusing, anxiety-ridden, tumultuous. Even the ...
Air Date: January 27, 2014
ListenAstronomer John Bochanski talks asteroids, UFO abductions and Phillies baseball
In this week’s ‘So, What Do You Do?’, college administrator Kevin Brown asks astronomer John Bochanski about life on ot ...
11 years ago
ListenWe’re tethered to our smartphones, tablets and computers. We leave our phones in plain sight during bedtime stories, holiday gatherings ...
Air Date: January 13, 2014
ListenThe changing nature of what we remember
Did you ever notice that your memory of an event changes depending on whom you’re with? Do you find yourself negotiating the detai ...
Air Date: January 6, 2014
ListenGiving of ourselves to help others is a win-win activity. It’s deemed generous, kind, and cooperative. It also increases intimacy, co ...
Air Date: December 30, 2013
ListenWhy men won’t go to the doctor, and how women coax them
It’s a perpetual battleground in the war between the sexes. Elisabeth Perez-Luna brings back dispatches from the frontlines. ...
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Listen 10:13Two decades ago, Tom Hanks and ‘Philadelphia’ prompted changing attitudes toward HIV-AIDS
An in-depth look at the making of the film, its impact, and the distance traveled in fighting HIV and AIDS. Twenty years ago this ...
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Listen 23:35For 40 million Americans, it’s chronic. For 20 to 30 million others it’s seasonal or temporary. Let’s face it, many of us don’t ...
Air Date: December 16, 2013
ListenWe know that children of alcoholics are four times as likely to develop substance abuse problems than other children, and they’re at ri ...
Air Date: December 9, 2013
ListenIn this So, What Do You Do?, a writer talks to an evolutionary geneticist about allele frequencies, technological evolution and ...
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ListenPeace psychology: Conversations
The journal American Psychologist has published a special issue on peace ...
Air Date: December 2, 2013
ListenStepfamilies: What works, what doesn’t
Blended families with children have a lot on their plates. There are roles to define, needs to pay attention to, and loyalties to underst ...
Air Date: November 25, 2013
ListenThe crisis of postpartum depression
No woman expects to suffer the physical and emotional devastation of postpartum depression or PPD. Expectant mothers are more inclined t ...
Air Date: November 15, 2013
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