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Current Directions in Psychological Science PodcastEverybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance UseChronic pain and substance use disorders (SUDs) are common and debilitating, and they often persist over the longer term. Each represents a significant health problem: It’s estimated that a substantial proportion of the adult population has chronic pain or an SUD, and their co-occurrence is increasing. Research is unraveling the mechanisms of chronic pain and substance use, as well as their co-occurrence; among other things, integrated behavioral treatment options based on acceptance- and mindfulness-based approaches are increasingly being developed and tested; government agencies are devoting more funds and resources to research on chronic pain and SUD; and there ha...
2023-08-1637 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastImplementing Evidence-Based Mental-Health TreatmentsShannon Wiltsey Stirman, professor at Stanford University, recentely wrote about key considerations regarding the implementation of mental-health treatments. These include recent findings regarding treatment fidelity, adaptation of treatments, clinical outcomes, and training therapists to provide evidence-based therapies as they were designed to be delivered, ensuring they have the skills and ability to adapt as needed to ensure better fit regardless of where clients receive treatment. To discuss this field and future directions, Dr. Teresa Treat, Professor of Psychology at University of Iowa, interviews Shannon Wiltsey Stirman.
2023-04-1200 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastThe Promise and Peril of GeneticsScientists can now comprehensively scan the genome, testing variation across millions of genetic markers. Large consortia of scientists are analyzing data from millions of individuals. Multivariate methods enable scientists to identify genes involved in “normal” processes rather than specific disorders or traits. These advances can have a widespread effect on medicine and society. However, such rapid progress brings ethical, social, and legal challenges, including the need for increased diversity to ensure that all people benefit from advances in the field. To discuss this research, Dr. Teresa Treat, Professor of Psychology at University of Iowa, interviews Danielle M. Dick, Professor at t...
2022-12-2135 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastPersonality Change Through Digital-Coaching InterventionsBy definition, personality traits are relatively stable, but recent research has begun to investigate whether individuals can intentionally change their personalities. One intervention that might lead to personality change relies on the use of digital applications to coach people on achieving their desired personality change. Allemand and Flückiger provided a rationale for nonclinical personality-change interventions, noting that personality traits predict several life outcomes, personality change can lead to better health, and many studies have already indicated that personality traits are malleable.
Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the AP...
2022-11-0915 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastField Experiments on Social MediaStudying online behavior can further understanding of misinformation and political psychology. Mosleh and colleagues discuseds the strengths, weaknesses, and ethical constraints of two approaches to studying online behavior: hybrid lab-field experiments and field experiments. In hybrid lab-field studies, researchers can control and randomize participants’ exposure to social-media content in the lab and then, in the field, survey participants’ attitudes and beliefs as well as observe their online behavior. In field experiments, researchers can use the online environment to manipulate social media exposure (e.g., via private messages or public posts) without disclosing their research and then observe the effects of t...
2022-10-2618 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastDaylong Mobile Audio Recordings Reveal Multitimescale Dynamics in Infants’ Vocal Productions and Auditory ExperiencesWarlaumont and colleagues reviewed recent research about how infants’ vocal productions and auditory experiences are organized over a day, with implications for development. Everyday vocalizations appear to be clustered hierarchically in time (e.g., there is more difference in vocalization quantity from one hour to the next hour than from one 5-min interval to the next). Vocalizations also appear to be a type of exploratory foraging for social responses, with patterns of vocal exploration changing as children develop. Regarding the sounds infants encounter, different musical frequencies may foster learning about category generalization.
Robert Goldstone of the Percepts an...
2022-10-1214 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastWhat’s to Come of All This Tracking “Who We Are”? The Intelligence ExampleDespite increased requirements and encouragements to track what we do and how we do it in different areas of our lives, from job performance to sleep and diet, evidence suggests that constant tracking might not help that much with health and well-being and instead might have dire social consequences. Johnson uses human intelligence, which has been the object of efforts to track for more than 100 years, as an example of tracking’s social consequences. The author suggests the potential for tracking activities to lead society into a dystopian future, much like the one portrayed in Huxley’s Brave New Worl...
2022-09-2813 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastDo Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive ModelAccording to the active-passive model, social networking sites (SNSs) can increase well-being when used actively to interact with others but can decrease well-being when their content is passively consumed. However, this distinction might not fully capture the sites’ nuanced effects on well-being. Verduyn and colleagues propose the extended active-passive model of SNS use, which organizes active use into reciprocity and communion facets, organizes passive use into achievement and self-relevance facets, and crosses all usage types with user characteristics. Thus, active use may not always be positive, and passive use may not always be negative.
Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at...
2022-09-1426 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastParsing ADHD with Temperament TraitsDeveloping the understanding of ADHD heterogeneity appears promising when researchers consider dimensions of trait affectivity. These dimensions can include surgency (i.e., high levels of sociability, activity, and positive emotion) and negative affectivity; their constituent lower-order traits, such as irritability; and the integrative function of self-regulation. Several lines of investigation focusing on ADHD and temperament traits (related to emotional regulation and dysregulation) are proving useful. Work in this area has the potential to improve theory, nosology, and clinical assessment in the future.
To discuss this research, Dr. Teresa Treat, Professor of Psychology at University of Iowa, interviews...
2022-08-3112 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastNeuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New SynthesisDr. Teresa Treat, Professor of Psychology at University of Iowa, interviews David Barlow, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry at Boston University, and Founder of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders.
Interviewed on February 10, 2022.
2022-04-2727 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastResearch Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and PotentialDr. Teresa Treat, Professor of Psychology at University of Iowa, interviews Bruce Cuthbert, Head of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Unit at the United States National Institute of Mental Health.
Interviewed on February 8, 2022.
2022-02-2720 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastEvidence and Implications from a Natural Experiment of Prenatal Androgen Effects on Gendered BehaviorRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Sheri Berenbaum, Professor of Psychology and Pediatrics at Penn State University.
Interviewed on August 6, 2021
2021-11-1910 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastThe Fetal Origins of Human Psychological DevelopmentRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Vincent Reid, Professor of Psychology and Head of School at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
Interviewed on August 2, 2021
2021-10-1917 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastCognition and Emotion in Extreme Political ActionRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Leor Zmirgrod, Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge in England.
Interviewed on August 2, 2021
2021-09-2920 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastThe Psychological Reach of Culture in Animals’ LivesRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Andrew Whiten, Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland,
Interviewed on August 2, 2021
2021-08-2725 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastPlacebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common?Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Fabrizio Benedetti, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Turin Medical School in Turin, Italy, and Director of Medicine and Physiology of Hypoxia at the Plateau Rosà Laboratories in Plateau Rozeau in Switzerland. Interviewed on August 2, 2021
2021-08-1823 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastThe Privacy Mismatch: Evolved Intuition in a Digital WorldRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Azim Shariff, associate professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia The interview was held on July 26, 2021.
2021-08-0920 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastWhat Your Nose Knows: Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Responses to the Scent of Another PersonRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Marlise Hofer, postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Victoria. The interview was held on February 17, 2021.
2021-03-2620 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastWhy facts are not enough: Understanding and managing the motivated rejection of scienceRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Matthew Hornsey, professor of management in the school of business at the University of Queensland. The interview was held on February 3, 2021.
2021-03-1720 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastPromoting Savings for Financial Resilience: Expanding the Psychological PerspectiveRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Crystal Hall
professor at the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at University of Washington. The interview was held on February 3, 2021.
2021-03-1118 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastPornography Use and Psychological Science: A Call for ConsiderationRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Joshua Grubbs, professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University. The interview was held February 1, 2021.
2021-03-1000 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastHow Can Cognitive Science Research Help Improve Education?Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Bethany Rittle-Johnson, Professor and Chair of Psychology & Human Development at Vanderbilt University. The interview was held on January 30, 2021.
2021-02-2415 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastThe Psychology of Intolerance: Unpacking Diverse Understandings of IntoleranceRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Maykel Verkuyten, Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Interviewed 10 April 2020.
2021-01-2919 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastDigital Emotion RegulationRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Greg Wadley, senior lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Interved 8 April 2020.
2021-01-2916 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastSocial Structure LearningRobert Goldstone interviews Sam Gershman, Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard University
Interviewed on the 7th of April 2020
2021-01-2919 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastWhat we could only learn about holistic face processing from non-face objectsRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Isabel Guathier, the David K. Wilson Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University on "what we could only learn about holistic face processing from non-face objects." The interview took place on March 9, 2020.
2021-01-2919 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastPsychological mechanisms forged by cultural evolutionRobert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Cecilia Heyes, Department of Experimental Psychology at University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Life Sciences at All Soul’s College. Interviewed on 26 February 2020.
2021-01-2923 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastStress Reactivity: What Pushes Us Higher, Faster, and Longer – and Why It MattersInterview with Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Distinguished University Professor, and Brumbaugh Chair in Brain Research and Teaching, and Director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research at the Ohio State University. Interview on December 4, 2020.
2021-01-1417 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastNeuroscience of moral behavior: How insights from neuroscience help understand the social origins of (im)moral behaviorInterview with Naomi Ellemers, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Interviewed on November 25, 2020
2021-01-1413 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastLearning to write wordsDiscussion with Rebecca Treiman, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Burke & Elizabeth High Baker Professor of Child Development in Arts & Sciences at Washington University. Interviewed on November 23, 2020.
2021-01-1417 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastCultural dynamics for sustainability: How can humanity craft cultures of sustainabilityInterview with Yoshihisa Kashima, Professor in the School of Psychology at University of Melbourne in Australia. Interviewed on November 23, 2020
2021-01-1400 minCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PodcastProbabilistic Biases Meet the Bayesian BrainInterview on November 16, 2020, with Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Warwick Business School, and cofounder of Decision Technology Ltd.
2021-01-1420 min