Mental Health
Love the second (or third) time around
Guests: Helen Fisher and Pepper Schwartz Americans are living longer and increasingly, after the loss of a loved ...
Air Date: March 31, 2015
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Guests: Amy Fusselman, Susan Solomon Are American playgrounds too safe with their wood chip-padded grounds, the p ...
Air Date: March 25, 2015
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Radio Times in Review: Neurologist Oliver Sacks, Swimmer Lynne Cox, Musician Kevin Eubanks
Guests: Oliver Sacks, Lynne Cox, Kevin Eubanks Coming up on today’s show, we revisit Marty’s conversation w ...
Air Date: February 27, 2015
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Radio Times in Review: Esther Perel, Diane Ackerman and examining “Fifty Shades of Grey”
Guests: Esther Perel, Diane Ackeman, Debbie Herbenick, Tracy Clark-Flory Today we have a special Valentine’s Da ...
Air Date: February 13, 2015
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Radio Times in Review: Ethnographer Yaba Blay, Writer Jacob Tomsky, Singer Mary Wilson
Guests: Yaba Blay, Jacob Tomsky, Mary Wilson Coming up on today’s show, we’ll hear an excerpt from M ...
Air Date: February 6, 2015
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Asylum for the severely mentally ill
Forty years ago, we thought closing psychiatric hospitals was the humane action. But was it? In a ...
Air Date: February 2, 2015
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Guest: Jonathan Moreno [From the Radio Times archive] In this hour of Radio Times, JONAT ...
Air Date: January 23, 2015
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Is depression contagious? A fresh look at a debilitating condition
The incidence of depression is escalating throughout the world. So can depression be contagious? Is it part of our social make-up or a bi ...
Air Date: January 12, 2015
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The Psychology of racial bias and stereotyping
Guests: Stacey Sinclair, Jack Glaser What does it mean to be a racist? Go online and you can take an implicit bia ...
Air Date: January 8, 2015
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Humor unites us – we connect with other people through laughter, and share collective struggles and confusions. It offers uncensore ...
Air Date: December 29, 2014
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Can eating insects save the world?
Guests: Bryan Walsh, Paul Rozin, and Daniella Martin [From the Radio Ti ...
Air Date: December 26, 2014
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Internet shopping and brick-and-mortar stores
Guest: David Bell [From the Radio Times archive] Online shopping may be the fastest growing segm ...
Air Date: December 26, 2014
ListenGuests: Ann Burnett and Susan Krauss Whitbourne It’s so much easier to brag these days! Social media sites lik ...
Air Date: December 18, 2014
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Inside the CIA’s interrogation program and the science behind it
Guests: Steven Kleinman and Scott Shane A report released last week by The Senate Intelligence Committee detaile ...
Air Date: December 17, 2014
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