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One Simple Habit for a Happier Marriage? Not So Fast
October 7, 2026 · 13 minA new study of about 1,700 married couples found that partners who exercise together, usually by walking, tend to have stronger marriages, and the headlines quickly turned that into "one simple habit for a happier relationship." In this…
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I'm Not the Person I Used to Be (and Why Your Brain Wants You to Believe That)
October 1, 2026 · 22 minWhy do your good deeds feel like "still me" while your bad ones feel like "a different person back then"? Research from Felipe De Brigard's lab at Duke University, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and in Memory…
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You've Got Dopamine Backwards (and I Can Prove It On Piano)
September 23, 2026 · 25 minWhat do a false ending to the Star Spangled Banner, a food delivery website where nothing ever arrives, and a monkey waiting for a squirt of juice have in common? In this episode I sit down at the piano to demonstrate the deceptive…
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Science Corrects Itself: The Embodied Cognition Story
August 30, 2026 · 41 minWhat is embodied cognition, and did it survive the replication crisis? This episode of The Psych Files examines the famous embodied cognition and social priming studies — power posing, the hot coffee study, the Macbeth effect, the facial…
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The Secret to a Good Joke Is Silence
August 13, 2026 · 16 minThis episode looks at why comic timing works, using a 2026 study from Yuxi Ma, Yongqian Peng, and colleagues at Peking University, presented at the Cognitive Science Society. The researchers analyzed 828 professional stand-up sets from…
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AI: Mixed Feelings, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
July 30, 2026 · 24 minMost of us who use AI tools live with a quiet contradiction: the tools are genuinely useful, and using them raises real ethical problems — work that might have gone to a person, the energy and water that data centers consume, and models…
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Why Nobody Pushed the Button: The Psychology Behind a Subway Tragedy
July 6, 2026 · 15 minWhy did more than a dozen people walk past Steven McCluskey as he lay trapped in a Boston subway escalator? On the surface it seems to refute the newest research on bystander intervention — Richard Philpot's cross-national CCTV study…
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Why People Step Out of the Plane — and Go Back Up the Next Day
June 26, 2026 · 11 minWhy would anyone step out of an airplane — and why, after a fatal accident, would they go back up the very next day? In this episode I talk through that question using a recent New York Times feature on a brutal weekend in extreme sports…
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Does Your Cat or Dog Need Closure? Pet Grief and the Psychology of Loss
June 12, 2026 · 26 minWe hear the word "closure" everywhere — in true crime shows, in news coverage of trials, and in the well-meaning advice of friends after a loss. But where did this idea come from, and does the research actually support it? In this episode…
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Home Alone: The Hidden Cost of Remote Work
June 10, 2026 · 12 minI've worked from home for about fifteen years, and I like it. I'm a writer, I'm fine being on my own, and I've got the cats for company. But there's one thing I miss, those little water-cooler conversations with colleagues, and a new study…
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"I'm Getting Old" — And That Thought Might Be Killing You
March 27, 2026 · 18 minDo you catch yourself saying "I'm getting old" more than you'd like to admit? Turns out, that habit might be doing more damage than you think. Psychologist Becca Levy of Yale has spent decades studying how our aging mindset — the beliefs…
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Actors Don't Really Memorize Lines!
February 24, 2026 · 10 minWhy do some people remember things effortlessly while others repeat information over and over and still forget it? In this episode, Michael looks at what research on actors reveals about how memory really works. Drawing on studies by…
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Learn how theories in psychology affect you in everyday life. Upbeat and interesting podcasts from experienced psychology teacher Michael Britt give you a bit more insight into you and your life.