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Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Low-Carb, High-Fat Slimdown with Dietary Researcher Dr. Jeff VolekWhy low-carb, high-fat eating is the healthiest kind and how to go about itWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Dietary researcher Dr. Jeff Volek lays out the science behind why you should declare your independence from dietary carbohydrates -- sugar, flour, starchy vegetables like potatoes, apple juice -- that cause the insulin secretion that puts on fat. Not only that, he explains why eating enough fat -- the right kind of fat -- is essential to getting and staying healthy.Dr. Michael...
2019-08-051h 04Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsWhy Men Fight And Why We Like To Watch, with Dr. Jonathan GottschallWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. On this show, Dr. Jonathan Gottschall talks about his foray from bummed out adjunct English professor to the Mixed Marshall Arts world and his big cage fight -- along with the psychology driving violence and the fight rituals that actually contain it. His fascinating book we'll be discussing on the show: The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch. Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sun from 7-7:30 pm PT...
2019-07-1634 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsLow-Carb, High-Fat: Nina Teicholz on why you should eat butter, meat, and cheeseWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science...and this week, a top investigative science journalist.Saturated fat is your friend. Really. It turns out everything we've been told about eating fat is wrong. On tonight's show, meticulous journalist Nina Teichholz will lay out the scientific errors, bias, and dangerous misrepresentations that have underpinned the dietary dogma of the past 60 years.She'll also lay out the findings of solid science -- why eating more dietary fat will lead us to better health and fitness.
2019-07-151h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Myth Of The Lone Genius and The Power Of Partnership, with Joshua Wolf ShenkWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.Joshua Wolf Shenk uses science, fascinating true stories of creative partnerships, and historical evidence to dispel the myth of the lone genius and show that creativity is not the work of an individual mind. It is, in fact, a social activity, and two people, working together, are truly "greater than the sum of their parts." Join us tonight to find out what it takes to be a creative partner -- and in turn, how to be far more than you can...
2019-06-241h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Science of Successful Negotiating, with Harvard's Dr. Michael WheelerWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.There have been two major schools on negotiating -- Ury, Fisher and Patton's "win-win"/"relationships are everything" approach and Roger Cohen's "nail 'em to the wall" hardball approach. Harvard Business School professor Michael Wheeler finds that these rigid, one-size-fits-all strategies often clash with the real-world realities of negotiating. Drawing on his and his colleagues' research, he finds that the most successful negotiating techniques are born of an ability to adapt while negotiating, and use agility, creativity, and wise prepar...
2019-06-191h 04Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsSex therapist Dr. Brandy Engler on men's and women's unspoken erotic desiresWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. What do men want? In bed and out? What do women want? How does this all tie together? (And who’s getting tied up?)These are just a few of the questions I’ll be asking and sex therapist Dr. Brandy Engler will be answering on tonight’s show. Dr. Engler is unique in that she opened a sex therapy practice for women -- expecting to slowly get some clients -- and quickly amassed a full list of cl...
2019-06-101h 03Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsHow To Live Happily Single, with Dr. Eric KlinenbergAmy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.On tonight's show, noted sociologist Dr. Eric Klinenberg discusses why remaining unmarried and living alone have increasing appeal and what the problems of living solo tend to be -- and how we might solve them.We'll touch both on living solo as a younger person (whether romantically single or "living apart together" with a partner), and how we can live alone as we age.Dr. Klineberg's book is Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Li...
2019-06-031h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsMark Sanborn: Fred 2.0—how to live, work, and be extraordinaryHumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Unlike the guests on almost all of my shows, my guest tonight is actually not a scientist -- he's business consultant, public speaker, and best-selling author Mark Sanborn.But this is the second time I've made an exception and had him on the show, because his thinking is so extraordinary, inspiring, and helpful.To bring up that word again -- "extraordinary" -- being extraordinary means being a stand-out person in your work, friendships, and relationships. We tend to think being th...
2019-05-2731 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsDr. Kermyt Anderson on the dad effect - how fatherhood transforms men & childrenWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.On this show, anthropologist Dr. Kermyt Anderson will lay out what the research says about fathers, stepfathers, grandparents, and how children are transformed by and transform the men who care for them. Dr. Anderson’s book we’ll be discussing tonight is Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior. It was co-authored with fellow anthropologist Peter B. Gray. Also check out Anderson and Gray’s blog at Psychology Today, “The Evolving Father.” Join me and all my fascinating gue...
2019-05-2031 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsEvolutionary Rationality: Dr. Vladas Griskevicius on how we make wiser choicesWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Decisions that we make that seem stupid can actually make a lot of evolutionary sense, meaning that they would have made sense in the ancestral world; they just don’t make sense in the world in which we now live.Unfortunately, we can’t just tell our genes, “Hey, it’s 2013! There are no hungry tigers roaming the streets of Baltimore and, by the way, my girlfriend’s on The Pill.” But, my guest tonight, evolutionary psychologist, psychologist and marketing profe...
2019-05-131h 03Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsFlirt Science: Amy Alkon & Dr. Jennifer Verdolin on how to flirt like a masterHumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin lay out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show on flirting. It turns out that flirting is anything but frivolous. In fact, understanding the science of flirting and mastering the most powerful techniques is the way to both get love in your life and have it stick around. Tune in to f...
2019-05-0631 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsLow-carb pioneers Dr. Michael Eades & Dr. Mary Dan EadesWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Low-carb pioneers Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades are my guests this week. Since the 1980s, they have been behind evidence-based ways to eat, and have helped thousands and thousands of people drop pounds without starving themselves. They have long understood that it is carbohydrates -- sugar, flour, starchy vegetables like potatoes, apple juice -- that cause the insulin secretion that puts on fat. On the show, we'll talk about how to maintain a way of eating, and...
2019-04-291h 09Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsScience-Based Parenting Techniques, With Dr. Alan KazdinAmy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, featuring the luminaries of behavioral science.It turns out some of the ways parents think they’ll get their kids to behave -- by berating, threatening, and punishing them -- are actually the least effective. My guest tonight, Yale University psychology professor, Dr. Alan E. Kazdin, who is also director of the Yale Parenting Center, has a parenting template that is not only effective at changing behavior in children, it does it by cutting out the screaming, yelling, and threatening.Dr. Kazdin has written a fantastic and...
2019-04-221h 00Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Science of Self-Motivation with Dr. Edward DeciWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.Many people seem to think that the most effective motivation comes from outside of us, that motivating is something one person does to or for another. The studies done by my guest tonight, psychologist Dr. Edward L. Deci, find that self-motivation, not external motivation, is at the heart of creativity, responsibility, healthy behavior, and lasting change.This is essential to understand whether we are trying to motivate ourselves or looking to encourage others to successfully motivate themselves.
2019-04-151h 00Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Neuroscience Of How Touch Drives Emotions & Behavior, with Dr. David LindenWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.On this show, neuroscientist David Linden takes us on a journey from our fingertips to our funparts and explains how huge an influence touch is in every aspect of our lives. He'll lay out, for example, how touch can improve your success in business and how vital touch is to a child's development and well being and about how much touch a child needs.We'll be discussing his book, Touch: The Science of Heart, Hand, and Mind.
2019-04-0831 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Upside Of "Dark Side" Emotions with Dr. Todd KashdanWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. This is a show on how the negative can be positive -- on how we actually need the emotions that make us uncomfortable. They make us whole, balancing the "positive" emotions. Dr. Todd Kashdan will lay out the science on how anger, anxiety, and other "negative" feelings can actually be motivating, illuminating, and helpful -- giving us our best shot at success and fulfillment.Dr. Kashdan's myth-busting book he'll be discussing, co-authored with Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener, is “The Upside of Yo...
2019-04-011h 03Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsEthical Polyamory with Therapist Dossie EastonWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science and psychotherapy.Dossie Easton is co-author of a terrific book, "The Ethical Slut," that I've been recommending for years to people who ask me about sexually open relationships -- whether they can handle one, how to handle them, all the questions they have.This promises to be a fascinating and eye-opening show, and one not to be missed even if you aren't personally interested in having more than one sex partner. Dossie will get into myths about ways we...
2019-03-251h 00Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsLow-Carb, High-Fat: Nina Teicholz on why you should eat butter, meat, and cheeseWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science...and this week, a top investigative science journalist.Saturated fat is your friend. Really. It turns out everything we've been told about eating fat is wrong. On tonight's show, meticulous journalist Nina Teichholz will lay out the scientific errors, bias, and dangerous misrepresentations that have underpinned the dietary dogma of the past 60 years.She'll also lay out the findings of solid science -- why eating more dietary fat will lead us to better health and fitness.
2019-03-181h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us"Mindful Anger" with Dr. Andrea BrandtAmy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science and therapy.Whether you're an anger venter or an anger withholder (or something in between), this is a show for you. My guest tonight, therapist Dr. Andrea Brandt, writes that “our culture has a built-in phobia of negative emotions,” which isolates us from each other and has myriad unhealthy and counterproductive effects on us personally.Her goal -- in her book, Mindful Anger: a pathway to emotional freedom, and on this show -- is not to help you get...
2019-03-1159 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsDr. Sam Sommers on the science of context -- for living, loving, working smarterWelcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Context is everything, Tufts psychology professor Dr. Sam Sommers explains. What we believe, how we behave, and even how we see ourselves shifts more than we understand, depending on the situation we find ourselves in at a particular moment.For example, contrary to popular belief, context (like whether we're standing in a crowd), and not moral character, will often determine whether people will reach out and help someone in need.On tonight's show, Dr. Sommers will lay out how...
2019-03-041h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe science on the benefits of giving with Wharton's Dr. Adam GrantWelcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Wharton organizational psychologist Dr. Adam Grant talks about his terrific book, "Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success," (now in paperback) which draws from research to explain what makes giving both powerful and dangerous to people's achieving their goals.Paradoxically, it's often those who give without looking for anything in return -- who just want to do good, open the playing field to good people -- who ultimately get the most in return. But, Grant warns, there are caveats to thi...
2019-02-251h 07Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsSexual confidence for women, with Dr. Beth MontemurroWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.Tonight’s show is about women and sexual power -- why some women feel like passive participants in their sex lives and why and how other women are able to feel comfortable in their sexual skin.My guest is Penn State researcher Dr. Beth Montemurro, and her book we’re discussing is Deserving Desire: Women’s Stories of Sexual Evolution.Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. PT, 10-11 p.m. ET, at b...
2019-02-111h 03Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsGetting The Girl -- The Ev Psych Approach, with Dr. Geoffrey MillerHumanLab -- The Science Between Us: Amy Alkon interviews the luminaries of behavioral science on how their research can help us have the lives we want.On this show is evolutionary psychologist Dr. Geoffrey Miller, who lays out the realities from science of what women really want and how even a regular guy can measure up (as opposed to trying to scam a woman into bed). His new book he'll be discussing on the show, co-authored with Tucker Max, is "Mate: Become the Man Women Want."Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sun from 7-7...
2019-02-0434 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe science-based exercise that requires only 15 minutes a week, with Fred HahnIt's Amy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us.On this show, exercise trainer and rehab expert Fred Hahn explains why slow-speed strength training, for just a few minutes a week, will make you healthier than that fitness fanatic who spends hours and hours in the gym. (He lays out fascinating and solid evidence throughout the show.)Fred is co-author, with Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades, whom I greatly respect, of The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution: The Slow-Motion Exercise That Will Change Your Body In 30 Minutes A Week.He will debunk a...
2019-01-281h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsMating Intelligence -- with Dr. Glenn Geher and Dr. Scott Barry KaufmanWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science and the therapy world. You can actually improve your mating intelligence -- and your ability to meet, date, and have sex and relationships with partners you want. My guests tonight are evolutionary psychologists Dr. Glenn Geher and Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, discussing their book Mating Intelligence Unleashed: The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love. It’s based on a vast body of research, and the book, like tonight’s show, will tell you, for example:
2019-01-211h 00Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Science of Winning and Losing with Ashley MerrymanWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science and the therapy world. Competition can be seen as ugly and divisive but it’s actually an essential element in driving us to do and be our best. My guest tonight, New York Times best-selling science writer Ashley Merryman, will lay out the science of winning and losing, including how we can figure out the kind of competitor we are (to help ourselves avoid choking), the differences between how men and women compete, and ways to rejigger our thinking...
2019-01-141h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsMark Sanborn: Fred 2.0—how to live, work, & be extraordinaryHumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Unlike the guests on almost all of my shows, my guest tonight is actually not a scientist -- he's business consultant, public speaker, and best-selling author Mark Sanborn.But this is the second time I've made an exception and had him on the show, because his thinking is so extraordinary, inspiring, and helpful.To bring up that word again -- "extraordinary" -- being extraordinary means being a stand-out person in your work, friendships, and relationships. We tend to think being th...
2019-01-071h 00Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAttachment Science: How To Find And Keep Love with Dr. Amir LevineHumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.This show will help you use the new field of adult attachment science to find love -- or to keep and even vastly improve the relationship you have.My guest is neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine, co-author with psychologist Rachel S.F. Heller, of Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -- and Keep -- Love.If you’re seeking a partner, by recognizing which of the three attachment styles you fit into, you can h...
2018-12-311h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsDepression: An Evolutionary Understanding, by Dr. Jonathan RottenbergAmy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.We have a depression epidemic in this country, now affecting more than 15% of the population, and it’s striking people at younger and younger ages. It seems clear that our current modes of understanding and treating depression just aren’t working.My guest tonight, psychologist Dr. Jonathan Rottenberg, draws on research to show why we are failing to help depression sufferers and turns to our evolutionary roots to offer a nuanced understanding of why we get depressed, explaining why our m...
2018-12-241h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsHow Touch Drives Emotions and Behavior, with neuroscientist Dr. David LindenWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.On this show, neuroscientist David Linden takes us on a journey from our fingertips to our funparts and explains how huge an influence touch is in every aspect of our lives. He'll lay out, for example, how touch can improve your success in business and how vital touch is to a child's development and well being and about how much touch a child needs.We'll be discussing his book, Touch: The Science of Heart, Hand, and Mind.
2018-12-1731 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsHidden influences driving our thoughts, beliefs, and actions, with Dr Adam AlterAmy Alkon's HumanLab --The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. We aren’t the independent thinkers we like to believe ourselves to be.Psychologist and researcher Dr. Adam Alter shows in his fascinating book, Drunk Tank Pink, that a host of forces -- internal, social, and environmental -- drive our thinking and beliefs, and in turn, our actions.On tonight’s show, he’ll lay out the ways we are influenced, sometimes causing substantial changes in our behavior that make the difference between success and failure in our endeavors...
2018-12-101h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsSex, what's "normal," and the sexual deviant in all of us, with Dr. Jesse BeringHumanLab -- The Science Between Us: Amy Alkon interviews the luminaries of behavioral science.Dr. Jesse Bering’s book, “Perv,” is subtitled “The Sexual Deviant in All of Us.” This is a book about weird sex but it’s also a book about all of the ways that even “normal” people fall along the spectrum of “perversions.” Tonight’s show, like Bering’s book, will be a fascinating inside look into how our specific sexual desires seem to be shaped in childhood, how sexually not “normal” some of the most seemingly normal people are, and how human psychology leads us to find...
2018-12-031h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsYour child can be more than his test scores, with Dr. Scott Barry KaufmanWelcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Cognitive psychologist Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman lays out why intelligence tests currently used are far too limiting in determining a student’s true potential. Kaufman is a rigorous researcher whose work I know and respect, but his new book, UNGIFTED: Intelligence Redefined, offers much more than science. It offers inspiration in Kaufman’s own story as a “late listener” (due to a spate of ear infections) who was put into learning disabled classes. And then, in 9th grade, through sheer determination...
2018-11-261h 00Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsStop Self-Deception: Dr. Carol Tavris on how belief we're right leads us astrayWelcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.My guest is social psychologist Dr. Carol Tavris, on how to admit mistakes instead of continuing to make them. She talks about common ways we make errors in reasoning and judgment that mess up our lives, and how to avoid them.Her terrific book, co-authored with Dr. Elliot Aronson, is one of my favorites: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts.Join me and my fascinating guests every Sund...
2018-11-191h 03Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsIntuition--The Science How It Can Lead Us Astray, with Dr. Christopher ChabrisWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.We like to believe our decisions are rationally driven and make sense. But constantly, our perception and decision-making are clouded by illusions we aren't even aware we have. Some of these include illusions of accuracy in our attention, memory, confidence, and knowledge. These illusions can lead us to make costly - and even deadly - errors.The good news is, by understanding what these illusions are and how we fall prey to them, we can avoid doing it (or...
2018-11-121h 04Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Anti-Male Trend: Dr. Helen Smith on stopping the fashionable male-bashingWelcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of therapy and behavioral science.This is not just a show for and about men but a show for anyone who cares about equal rights and fairness for all.Tonight's guest is psychologist Dr. Helen Smith talking about how, in America, it's become permissible -- and even fashionable -- to be anti-male and what men can (and must) do to start changing this. What men have been doing is going on strike -- dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoid...
2018-11-051h 04Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsHow To Live Happily Single, with Dr. Eric KlinenbergAmy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.On tonight's show, noted sociologist Dr. Eric Klinenberg discusses why remaining unmarried and living alone have increasing appeal and what the problems of living solo tend to be -- and how we might solve them.We'll touch both on living solo as a younger person (whether romantically single or "living apart together" with a partner), and how we can live alone as we age.Dr. Klineberg's book is Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Li...
2018-10-301h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsRisk Intelligence: Dr. Dylan Evans on using science for better decision-makingAmy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.Dr. Dylan Evans will be talking about risk intelligence and how you can increase your ability to make wise decisions. Wise decisions are fact-based decisions instead of the superstition- and ignorance-based ones that are often the defaults ones our brain pushes us toward. It’s especially important to be factual about your own level of ignorance surrounding an area you need to make a decision about and factor that in. Evans' very smart book we'll be discu...
2018-10-231h 03Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAddiction Recovery Science: Dr. Stanton Peele on why values matterAmy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.Dr. Stanton Peele points out that most people recover from addictions on their own -- without AA or rehab, and what makes the difference is values, not biology.On tonight’s show, he’ll debunk many of the myths in addiction treatment -- especially the notion that addiction is a “disease” people are powerless to overcome. That defeatest message is especially counterproductive to overcoming addiction, and it’s been supported with bad science and hearsay. Join us tonight to hear what s...
2018-10-151h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Myth Of The Lone Genius and The Power Of Partnership, with Joshua Wolf ShenkWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.Joshua Wolf Shenk uses science, fascinating true stories of creative partnerships, and historical evidence to dispel the myth of the lone genius and show that creativity is not the work of an individual mind. It is, in fact, a social activity, and two people, working together, are truly "greater than the sum of their parts." Join us tonight to find out what it takes to be a creative partner -- and in turn, how to be far more than you can...
2018-10-081h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsCharisma: How we all can acquire it, with Olivia Fox CabaneWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.My guest is Fortune 500 executive coach and charisma expert Olivia Fox Cabane.Cabane lays out, per research on leadership, why the personal magnetism we call charisma isn’t something people are just born with but something we can all acquire and perfect with knowledge and practice. Even people who aren’t extraverts.Her book we're discussing is The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism. Join me and all my fascinating guests eve...
2018-10-011h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsEvolutionary Rationality: Dr. Vladas Griskevicius on how we make wiser choicesWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Decisions that we make that seem stupid can actually make a lot of evolutionary sense, meaning that they would have made sense in the ancestral world; they just don’t make sense in the world in which we now live.Unfortunately, we can’t just tell our genes, “Hey, it’s 2013! There are no hungry tigers roaming the streets of Baltimore and, by the way, my girlfriend’s on The Pill.” But, my guest tonight, evolutionary psychologist, psychologist and marketing profe...
2018-09-241h 03Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsLow-carb pioneers Dr. Michael Eades & Dr. Mary Dan EadesWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Low-carb pioneers Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades are my guests this week. Since the 1980s, they have been behind evidence-based ways to eat, and have helped thousands and thousands of people drop pounds without starving themselves. They have long understood that it is carbohydrates -- sugar, flour, starchy vegetables like potatoes, apple juice -- that cause the insulin secretion that puts on fat. On the show, we'll talk about how to maintain a way of eating, and...
2018-09-171h 09Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Evolutionary Psychology Of Revenge, with Dr. David BarashWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.Evolutionary psychologist Dr. David P. Barash has taken on the fascinating subject of revenge: why we seem to need it, the different kinds, and how we might avoid leaping to clobber those who do bad things to us.His book, Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, And Take Revenge, is co-authored with psychiatrist Dr. Judith Eve Lipton.Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sun, 7-8 p.m. PT, 10-11 p.m. ET, at blogtalkradio.com...
2018-09-1059 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsDr. Temple Grandin: The autistic brain and its insights for all of usWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.My guest is the inspiring Dr. Temple Grandin, bestselling author, autism activist, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior, discussing her fascinating new book, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across The Spectrum.This isn't just a show for people who have friends or children with autism or autism spectrum disorders but a show that offers compelling thinking on how to see intelligence, creativity, and differences between brains, and how to help people use their brains in optimal ways...
2018-09-031h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Evolutionary Truth About Cats & Dogs (& Human Families): Dr Catherine SalmonWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Relationships with family -- and the pets that are part of our families -- are important to our emotional health and can play a significant role in our social success.Tonight, evolutionary psychologist Dr. Catherine Salmon will lay out some fascinating information about our evolved psychology within our families, including -- among other things -- how rivalry isn’t just a sibling thing but a parent-child thing and how and why we create family relationships with people we aren’t...
2018-08-2733 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsScience-based goal setting and achievement with Harvard's Dr. Francesca GinoWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Adorably, we humans see ourselves as rational animals. Research shows us to be anything but.We are swayed in ways we wouldn’t expect in both our decision-making and how well we stick to our plans. The good news is, the research also shows that our going off track happens in predictable ways. My guest tonight, Harvard Business School professor, Dr. Francesca Gino, will both lay out the forces that sidetrack us as we’re trying to accomplish our goals a...
2018-08-201h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAssertiveness: The science on how & why to be assertive, with Dr. Randy PatersonWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Assertiveness isn't about "building a good disguise," Dr. Randy Paterson explains. "It's about the courage to take the disguise off." It's "about being THERE."Paterson, a clinical psychologist, is the author of the excellent book I've recommended in my column, "The Assertiveness Workbook: How To Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships," and that's exactly what he and I will be laying out on tonight's show.Paterson takes a very rational, behavioral approach and...
2018-08-131h 00Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Science of Place: Dr. Colin Ellard on how our surroundings affect well-beingWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.This week's very exciting show is on a subject that has a great deal of influence over us -- our environment -- that we tend to give very little thought.Luckily, cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Colin Ellard has done the work and thinking for us, and, on this show, will lay out the science of how the places we inhabit change our minds and bodies, and how we can use this knowledge to our benefit.His book we'll be discussing toni...
2018-08-0633 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsSex therapist Dr. Marty Klein on how to rethink your way to great sexWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science and the therapy world. It turns out that our assumptions about the mindblowing sex we think we are "supposed" to be having is the thing that stops us from the pretty great sex we could be having. Or from having sex at all.This week's guest is therapist and sex therapist Dr. Marty Klein, ripping away widely held myths about sex to help everybody listening improve their sex lives.We discussing his book, Sexual Intelligence: What We Re...
2018-07-301h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe science-based exercise that requires only 15 minutes a week, with Fred HahnIt's Amy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us.On this show, exercise trainer and rehab expert Fred Hahn explains why slow-speed strength training, for just a few minutes a week, will make you healthier than that fitness fanatic who spends hours and hours in the gym. (He lays out fascinating and solid evidence throughout the show.)Fred is co-author, with Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades, whom I greatly respect, of The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution: The Slow-Motion Exercise That Will Change Your Body In 30 Minutes A Week.He will debunk a...
2018-07-231h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsScience-Based Parenting Techniques, With Dr. Alan KazdinAmy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, featuring the luminaries of behavioral science.It turns out some of the ways parents think they’ll get their kids to behave -- by berating, threatening, and punishing them -- are actually the least effective. My guest tonight, Yale University psychology professor, Dr. Alan E. Kazdin, who is also director of the Yale Parenting Center, has a parenting template that is not only effective at changing behavior in children, it does it by cutting out the screaming, yelling, and threatening.Dr. Kazdin has written a fantastic and...
2018-07-161h 00Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsScience Meets Ancient Chinese Philosophy, with Dr. Edward SlingerlandAmy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, featuring the luminaries of behavioral science.On tonight’s show, science gets together with ancient Chinese philosophy, and it likes what it finds. Dr. Edward Slingerland, an internationally renowned Chinese philosophy expert, draws on both cutting-edge science and ancient Chinese strategies to show how our modern Western approach of striving our guts out doesn’t seem to lead to success or happiness.In fact, he observes, it seems that getting practiced enough in something that it comes naturally is the way to avoid forcing things in the mo...
2018-07-091h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Science on Creativity: Dr Scott Barry Kaufman on being at your creative bestWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.On this show, noted creativity and intelligence researcher Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman explains how creative brains work and, using findings from psychology and neuroscience, explains practices we can all use to function at our creative best.His book, co-authored with Carolyn Gregoire, that we're discussing on the show: Wired To Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind. Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sun from 7-7:30 pm PT and 10-10:30 pm ET, here at b...
2018-07-0332 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsSex therapist Dr. Brandy Engler on men's and women's unspoken erotic desiresWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. What do men want? In bed and out? What do women want? How does this all tie together? (And who’s getting tied up?)These are just a few of the questions I’ll be asking and sex therapist Dr. Brandy Engler will be answering on tonight’s show. Dr. Engler is unique in that she opened a sex therapy practice for women -- expecting to slowly get some clients -- and quickly amassed a full list of cl...
2018-06-251h 03Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsScience-Driven Practical Wisdom: Dr. Barry Schwartz on how emotions drive wisdomWelcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.On this show, social psychologist Dr. Barry Schwartz lays out why our emotions, trained and modulated, are the key to developing wisdom and behaving wisely.And, contrary to conventional "wisdom" that emotions should be kept out of business or professional decisions, Schwartz lays out why that's not the case and why "practical wisdom" is key to both personal and relationship happiness.His compelling book (complete with some moving stories) is "Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right T...
2018-06-181h 03Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Science of Successful Negotiating, with Harvard's Dr. Michael WheelerWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.There have been two major schools on negotiating -- Ury, Fisher and Patton's "win-win"/"relationships are everything" approach and Roger Cohen's "nail 'em to the wall" hardball approach. Harvard Business School professor Michael Wheeler finds that these rigid, one-size-fits-all strategies often clash with the real-world realities of negotiating. Drawing on his and his colleagues' research, he finds that the most successful negotiating techniques are born of an ability to adapt while negotiating, and use agility, creativity, and wise prepar...
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Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe science on giving with Wharton's Dr. Adam GrantWelcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Wharton organizational psychologist Dr. Adam Grant talks about his terrific book, "Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success," (now in paperback) which draws from research to explain what makes giving both powerful and dangerous to people's achieving their goals.Paradoxically, it's often those who give without looking for anything in return -- who just want to do good, open the playing field to good people -- who ultimately get the most in return. But, Grant warns, there are caveats to thi...
2018-06-041h 06Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsIntuition -- How It Can Lead Us Astray, with Dr. Christopher ChabrisWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.We like to believe our decisions are rationally driven and make sense. But constantly, our perception and decision-making are clouded by illusions we aren't even aware we have. Some of these include illusions of accuracy in our attention, memory, confidence, and knowledge. These illusions can lead us to make costly - and even deadly - errors.The good news is, by understanding what these illusions are and how we fall prey to them, we can avoid doing it (or...
2018-05-281h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsWhy Men Fight And Why We Like To Watch, with Dr. Jonathan GottschallWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. On this show, Dr. Jonathan Gottschall talks about his foray from bummed out adjunct English professor to the Mixed Marshall Arts world and his big cage fight -- along with the psychology driving violence and the fight rituals that actually contain it. His fascinating book we'll be discussing on the show: The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch. Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sun from 7-7:30 pm PT and 10...
2018-05-2134 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Upside Of "Dark Side" Emotions with Dr. Todd KashdanWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. This is a show on how the negative can be positive -- on how we actually need the emotions that make us uncomfortable. They make us whole, balancing the "positive" emotions. Dr. Todd Kashdan will lay out the science on how anger, anxiety, and other "negative" feelings can actually be motivating, illuminating, and helpful -- giving us our best shot at success and fulfillment.Dr. Kashdan's myth-busting book he'll be discussing, co-authored with Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener, is “The Upside of Yo...
2018-04-301h 03Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsFlirt Science: Amy Alkon & Dr. Jennifer Verdolin on how to flirt like a masterHumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin lay out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show on flirting. It turns out that flirting is anything but frivolous. In fact, understanding the science of flirting and mastering the most powerful techniques is the way to both get love in your life and have it stick around. Tune in to f...
2018-04-2331 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsBlame: Why It's Toxic And How To Actually Resolve Conflict, with Dr. Carl AlaskoWelcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science and psychotherapy. My guest tonight is psychotherapist Carl Alasko, Ph.D., talking about a topic we can all use some help and insight on -- blame: How ineffective it is, how damaging it is, and how to stop blaming and be constructive in getting ourselves and others to change.Alasko has written a very comprehensive book on blame -- Beyond Blame: Freeing Yourself from the Most Toxic Form of Emotional Bullsh*tListen to tonight's show live at this...
2018-04-161h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsStop Self-Deception: Dr. Carol Tavris on how belief we're right leads us astrayWelcome to HumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.My guest is social psychologist Dr. Carol Tavris, on how to admit mistakes instead of continuing to make them. She talks about common ways we make errors in reasoning and judgment that mess up our lives, and how to avoid them.Her terrific book, co-authored with Dr. Elliot Aronson, is one of my favorites: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts.Join me and my fascinating guests every Sund...
2018-04-091h 03Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsSexual confidence for women, with Dr. Beth MontemurroWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.Tonight’s show is about women and sexual power -- why some women feel like passive participants in their sex lives and why and how other women are able to feel comfortable in their sexual skin.My guest is Penn State researcher Dr. Beth Montemurro, and her book we’re discussing is Deserving Desire: Women’s Stories of Sexual Evolution.Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. PT, 10-11 p.m. ET, at b...
2018-04-021h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Science of Winning and Losing with Ashley MerrymanWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science and the therapy world. Competition can be seen as ugly and divisive but it’s actually an essential element in driving us to do and be our best. My guest tonight, New York Times best-selling science writer Ashley Merryman, will lay out the science of winning and losing, including how we can figure out the kind of competitor we are (to help ourselves avoid choking), the differences between how men and women compete, and ways to rejigger our thinking...
2018-03-261h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsSex therapist Dr. Marty Klein on how to rethink your way to great sexWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science and the therapy world. It turns out that our assumptions about the mindblowing sex we think we are "supposed" to be having is the thing that stops us from the pretty great sex we could be having. Or from having sex at all.This week's guest is therapist and sex therapist Dr. Marty Klein, ripping away widely held myths about sex to help everybody listening improve their sex lives.We discussing his book, Sexual Intelligence: What We Re...
2018-03-191h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsGetting The Girl -- The Evolutionary Psych Approach, with Dr. Geoffrey MillerHumanLab -- The Science Between Us: Amy Alkon interviews the luminaries of behavioral science on how their research can help us have the lives we want.On this show is evolutionary psychologist Dr. Geoffrey Miller, who lays out the realities from science of what women really want and how even a regular guy can measure up (as opposed to trying to scam a woman into bed). His new book he'll be discussing on the show, co-authored with Tucker Max, is "Mate: Become the Man Women Want."Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sun from 7...
2018-03-1233 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Science Of Social Connection: Dr. Matthew Lieberman on our social selvesAmy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.Dr. Matthew Lieberman's new book is "Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect," and it's filled with fascinating findings on how surprisingly driven we are by our nature as social beings. For example, there's a finding by his wife and research partner, Naomi Eisenberger and her colleagues that taking acetaminophen (think Tylenol) actually diminished the pain of being socially excluded. Lieberman explains, "Our sensitivity to social rejection is so central to our well-being that our brains" react to social...
2018-03-051h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsScience Meets Ancient Chinese Philosophy, with Dr. Edward SlingerlandAmy Alkon's HumanLab -- The Science Between Us, featuring the luminaries of behavioral science.On tonight’s show, science gets together with ancient Chinese philosophy, and it likes what it finds. Dr. Edward Slingerland, an internationally renowned Chinese philosophy expert, draws on both cutting-edge science and ancient Chinese strategies to show how our modern Western approach of striving our guts out doesn’t seem to lead to success or happiness.In fact, he observes, it seems that getting practiced enough in something that it comes naturally is the way to avoid forcing things in the mo...
2018-02-261h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsScience-based goal setting and achievement with Harvard's Dr. Francesca GinoWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Adorably, we humans see ourselves as rational animals. Research shows us to be anything but.We are swayed in ways we wouldn’t expect in both our decision-making and how well we stick to our plans. The good news is, the research also shows that our going off track happens in predictable ways. My guest tonight, Harvard Business School professor, Dr. Francesca Gino, will both lay out the forces that sidetrack us as we’re trying to accomplish our goals a...
2018-02-191h 01Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAssertiveness: The science on how & why to be assertive, with Dr. Randy PatersonWelcome to Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between Us, interviewing the luminaries of behavioral science.Assertiveness isn't about "building a good disguise," Dr. Randy Paterson explains. "It's about the courage to take the disguise off." It's "about being THERE."Paterson, a clinical psychologist, is the author of the excellent book I've recommended in my column, "The Assertiveness Workbook: How To Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships," and that's exactly what he and I will be laying out on tonight's show.Paterson takes a very rational, behavioral approach and...
2018-02-121h 00Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsBetter Sex! The science on better times in bed with Kinsey's Dr. Justin GarciaHumanLab -- The Science Between Us: Amy Alkon interviews the luminaries of behavioral science.Tonight's show will help you improve your sex life and diminish sexual anxiety with the latest research on sex.We'll talk about orgasms, fantasies, hooking up, what's changed about oral sex, how people can make Internet dating work better for them, how the proliferation of p0rn really affects the average person's sex life, and whether you can be better in bed -- and how -- among other topics.My guest tonight is Kinsey Institute researcher and evolutionary biologist Dr...
2018-02-051h 02Amy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsDefeat The Mean Girls With Science, with Amy Alkon & Dr. Jennifer VerdolinHumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin lay out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show laying out the science on why Mean Girls are so mean, why "Lean In" is advice that can backfire on a woman, and how women can succeed in love, friendships, and careers.And don’t forget to buy our sc...
2017-04-2440 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsFlirt Science: Amy Alkon & Dr. Jennifer Verdolin on how to flirt like a masterHumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin lay out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show on flirting. It turns out that flirting is anything but frivolous. In fact, understanding the science of flirting and mastering the most powerful techniques is the way to both get love in your life and have it stick around. Tune in to f...
2017-04-1031 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe Evolutionary Psychology Of Looking Sexy, with Amy Alkon & Dr. VerdolinHumanLab: The Science Between Us -- a weekly science-based podcast.Join us tonight for a fun look at the science of attraction, and learn how to look hot to the people you want -- without becoming the indentured servant of some plastic surgeon until you’re 90.About the show: This is a very special every-other-Sunday-night show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. And d...
2017-01-2334 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsHeartbreak Help From Science, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer VerdolinWelcome to "HumanLab: The Science Between Us," with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Welcome to a very special show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show on heartbreak -- why it's actually adaptive and how to recover from it -- with science from both the human and animal world.And don’t forget to buy our...
2016-12-1933 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsFlirt Science: Amy Alkon & Dr. Jennifer Verdolin on how to flirt like a masterHumanLab: The Science Between Us, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin lay out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show on flirting. It turns out that flirting is anything but frivolous. In fact, understanding the science of flirting and mastering the most powerful techniques is the way to both get love in your life and have it stick around. Tune in to f...
2016-10-2430 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsThe science of friendship with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer VerdolinWelcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin lay out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Starting from the evolutionary origins of friendship -- "Let's pair up so we won't get eaten!" -- we go on to explain some unexpected findings about friendship, along with how to be a friend, how to win friends, how to end friendships that are toxic or h...
2016-07-1129 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsDefeat The Mean Girls With Science, with Amy Alkon & Dr. Jennifer VerdolinWelcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin lay out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show laying out the science on why Mean Girls are so mean, why "Lean In" is advice that can backfire on a woman, and how women can succeed in love, friendships, and careers.And don’t forget to bu...
2016-06-2740 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsSluts and Swingers of the Human and Animal Kingdom with Amy Alkon & Dr. VerdolinWelcome to HumanLab -- The Science Between Us -- with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin lay out science you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show detailing th science on casual sex and multiple partners, and how to manage in this sexual Wild West.And don’t forget to buy our science-based and amusing books -- support our show while entertaining your...
2016-06-1340 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsHow science can help you through heartbreak, with Amy Alkon & Dr. VerdolinWelcome to "HumanLab: The Science Between Us," with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Welcome to a very special show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show on heartbreak -- why it's actually adaptive and how to recover from it -- with science from both the human and animal world.And don’t forget to buy our...
2016-05-1632 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsSluts and Swingers of the Human and Animal Kingdom with Amy Alkon & Dr. VerdolinWelcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin."Best Of" replay with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show laying out the science on casual sex and multiple partners, and how to manage in this sexual Wild West.And don’t forget to buy our science-based and amusing books -- support our sho...
2016-02-2939 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsHeal Your Heartbreak With ScienceIt's "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Join us tonight for a "Best of" replay -- an enlightening show on heartbreak and how to recover from it, with science from both the human and animal world, laid out for you by science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.And don’t forget to buy our science-based and amusing books -- support our show while entertaining yourself and learning a thing or two to improve your life. Amy’s new book is "Good Manners...
2016-01-2532 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: The evolution of Mean Girls & how to beat their systemWelcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin."Best Of" replay with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show laying out the science on why Mean Girls are so mean, why "Lean In" is advice that can backfire on a woman, and how women can succeed in love, friendships, and careers.An...
2016-01-0439 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: A Scientific Look At How To Flirt Like A MasterWelcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.*Best of Replay (in book crunch mode -- will have new live shows again in the next few weeks!)Welcome to a very special every-other-week show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show on flirting. It turns out that flirting is anything bu...
2015-08-1030 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: The evolution of Mean Girls & how to beat their systemWelcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Welcome to a very special every-other-week show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show laying out the science on why Mean Girls are so mean, why "Lean In" is advice that can backfire on a woman, and how women can succeed in love, friendships, an...
2015-07-1338 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: The Evolutionary Psychology Of Looking SexyIt's "Science News You Can Use" radio, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.*"Best Of" replay (because Dr. Jenn is somewhere in the jungle for a few weeks).Join us tonight for a fun look at the science of attraction, and learn how to look hot to the people you want -- without becoming the indentured servant of some plastic surgeon until you’re 90.About the show: This is a very special every-other-Sunday-night show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news...
2015-06-0834 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: Sluts and Swingers of the Human and Animal KingdomWelcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Welcome to a very special every-other-week show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show laying out the science on casual sex and multiple partners, and how to manage in this sexual Wild West.And don’t forget to buy our science-based and amu...
2015-05-1839 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: How heartbreak is adaptive & science can help you healWelcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Welcome to a very special every-other-week show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show on heartbreak and how to recover from it, with science from both the human and animal world.And don’t forget to buy our science-based and amusing books...
2015-05-0431 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: Do Opposites Really Attract--& Are They Good Together?Welcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Welcome to a very special every-other-week show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show on exactly what makes a great match. Is an opposite who ruffles your feathers better for you than someone with a more similar personality? Tune in to find out.
2015-04-2034 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: Communicating to find, keep, or improve a relationshipIt's "Science News You Can Use" radio, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.How you communicate can kill or save a relationship -- or help you get into a really great one. But it’s hard to know the nuances of communicating: When should you be honest? When should you be, um, less than honest? There’s a lot of advice out there on how to talk to people (and people you love) but on tonight’s show we’ll be turning to science to debunk myths and lay out tips on how you can co...
2015-03-1632 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: How to meet, date, & succeed with the partner you wantIt's "Science News You Can Use" radio, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.If you've been bumping around in the dark in trying to get dates, not mess up the ones you do get, and maybe get into a relationship, tonight's show will lay out what science says you need to do to succeed in all of those areas. About this show: This is a very special every-other-Sunday-night show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your rela...
2015-02-0932 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: How friendships can enhance who you are & how you liveIt's "Science News You Can Use" radio, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Starting from the evolutionary origins of friendship -- "Let's pair up so we won't get eaten!" -- we go on to explain some unexpected findings about friendship, along with how to be a friend, how to win friends, how to end friendships that are toxic or have run their course...and much more.About the show: This is a very special every-other-Sunday-night show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science new...
2015-01-1228 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: The Evolutionary Psychology Of Looking SexyIt's "Science News You Can Use" radio, with Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Join us tonight for a fun look at the science of attraction, and learn how to look hot to the people you want -- without becoming the indentured servant of some plastic surgeon until you’re 90.About the show: This is a very special every-other-Sunday-night show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a bett...
2014-11-1731 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: A Scientific Look At How To Flirt Like A MasterWelcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Welcome to a very special every-other-week show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show on flirting. It turns out that flirting is anything but frivolous. In fact, understanding the science of flirting and mastering the most powerful techniques is the way to both get love...
2014-10-2730 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: Do Opposites Really Attract--& Are They Good Together?Welcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Welcome to a very special every-other-week show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist and author Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an enlightening show on exactly what makes a great match. Is an opposite who ruffles your feathers better for you than someone with a more similar personality? Tune in to find out.
2014-10-1334 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: How & why to set boundaries--even if it terrifies youWelcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Welcome to a very special every-other-week show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for an illuminating show on how, when, and why you should set boundaries. And don’t forget to buy our science-based and amusing books -- support our show while entertaining yourself and learning a thing o...
2014-09-1536 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsAmy Alkon & Dr. Verdolin: the science on understanding and overcoming jealousyWelcome to "Science News You Can Use" from Amy Alkon and Dr. Jennifer Verdolin.Tonight is the start of a very special every-other-week show with science-based advice columnist and author Amy Alkon and animal behaviorist Dr. Jennifer Verdolin laying out science news you can use to solve your relationship problems or just improve your relationships and have a better life. Join us tonight for our show on understanding jealousy and overcoming the damaging kind. And don’t forget to buy our science-based, fun, funny, and illuminating books -- support our show while entertaining yourself and l...
2014-09-0128 minAmy Alkon's HumanLab: The Science Between UsDr. Jennifer Verdolin & Amy Alkon: Manners & sexual politics in humans & animalsAmy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.An animal behaviorist/lemur personality expert and a science-based modern manners and sexual politics expert -- what could make for a more fun and interesting hour of Advice Goddess Radio?Dr. Jennifer L. Verdolin is the woman who runs with the lemurs, and she has a few things to say about human relationships as seen through the lens of animal ones. (Sometimes, sadly, the animals seem more mature than we do.) Her new book: Wild Connection: What Animal...
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