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The Psych Files is for anyone who is:
- interested in human behavior presented in an informal and fun way.
- taking or teaching a class in psychology.
- taking or teaching a class in social work.
- a critical thinker or skeptic.
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Enjoy!
Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
Episode 98: Evolutionary Psychology – An Interview with Dr. David Buss
Do you know your own "mate value" in the dating world? Curious about evolutionary psychology? In this interview with Dr. David Buss we discuss a number of interesting and controversial topics, such as the matching hypothesis and date rape. Are there evolutionary roots to the battle of the sexes and can we change our behavior? Find out in this interview.
Evolutionary Psychology
- Click to download Dr. Buss’ article, The Great Struggles of Life.
- Dr. David Buss has an excellent website where you can learn more about him, his articles and books, and the Buss Lab, where his graduate students study evolutionary psychology.
- Here’s the website for the Evolutionary Psychology journal.
- I’m a subscriber to the excellent Skeptoid podcast, written and hosted by Brian Dunning, and in episode 10 he gave an excellent primer on evolution theory.
- Dr. Todd K. Shackelford maintains the Evolutionary Psychology Lab site. Excellent resources can be found here.
- Lots of interesting information at this FAQ site for evolutionary psychology. The site "is maintained by Edward Hagen, formerly of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara."
- Another site with lots of information about evolutionary psychology is maintained by the Center for Evolutionary Psychology.
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Episode 97: Stanley Milgram Obedience Study Finally Replicated
The obedience studies originally conducted by Stanley Milgram (sometimes referred to as the Milgram Shock studies) have finally been replicated in a university setting. Will people obey an authority figure and give a stranger a dangerous shock? Or have things changed in the last 40 years such that people will be more willing to be disobedient to authority?
Episode 96 (video): Mnemonics Advanced: The Pegword System Part 2
In the episode 95 you saw me memorize – almost perfectly – a list of 20 top sci-fi movies. How did I do it? In this video learn exactly how the advanced pegword system works which will enable you to memorize almost any size list.
Episode 95 (video): Mnemonics Advanced: The Pegword System Part 1
Did you know there’s a mnemonic device that is more powerful than the "One is a bun" pegword mnemonic? In this video I show you the advanced pegword mnemonic system in which every number becomes a letter and a concrete word that you can visualize to help you remember a list of any length.
Episode 94: How Do You Learn to Act Like a Man/Woman? Gender Identity and Gender Scripts
How do we learn to act in what are called "gender appropriate" ways? How did you learn to act like a girl and then a woman? Or like a boy and then like a man? Did you experience either penis envy or womb envy? Or did you learn to act like you do by watching males and females on TV? In this episode of The Psych Files we look at the interesting and complex issue of gender identity.
