Do you get nervous when you perform? Well, you’re not alone. Listen to a few experienced actors talk about performing and then I’ll share some thoughts about what psychologists have to say about those judges in your head who keep you from doing your best. I’ll also share my experiences as a performer as well. Then we end with a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt. What does she have to do with performance anxiety? You’ll have to listen to find out.

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• Here’s the movie I referred to in this episode. It makes a lot of interesting observations on performance anxiety and it’s a great family film: The Greatest Game Ever Played

• Here’s the wonderful book I mentioned in the podcast that I highly recommend: A Soprano on Her Head: Right-Side-Up Reflections on Life and Other Performances

• This great book on performance anxiety was written by a psychologist: The Confident Performer

• The classic book on the mental side of sports performance: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

• For a more thorough review of Albert Ellis and Martin Seligman’s ideas, check out my previous episode on the negative side of positive thinking.

• Seligman’s book goes into good detail on his theory of explanatory style: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

• Albert Ellis’ ideas on dealing with irrational thinking are explained in his book: A Guide to Rational Living

Thanks to the actors interviewed in this episode:

• Colleen Raney talked about taking risks onstage.
• Scott Laska talked about how you can’t intellectualize during a performance.
• Yvonne Campbell discussed how she kept focused on her performance during a scene from West Side Story.

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Have you heard about Mashups? What do they have to do with psychology? In this video episode I’ll show you how you use RSS feeds, Google Reader, and Yahoo Pipes to create a mashup that searches the web for the very latest information on psychological terms of interest to you. I’m not clairvoyant (is that the right term for people who can see the future?), but I think this IS the future of of research in psychology. Come take a look.
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Resources for this Episode

• Click to take a look at the Psychology Researcher mashup I created on Yahoo Pipes. I’ll be updating it all the time to improve it, but for now if you want to change the search term from "alzheimer’s" to some other term, just click on Edit Source on the Yahoo Pipes page and change the term alzheimer’s in the three search boxes you’ll see on the screen.

• You can set up an RSS reader for free at Google Reader where you can collect all the latest information from the top blogs in psychology.

• One of the great blogs I mentioned in this episode is called PsyBlog. It is run by Jeremy Dean who is a frequent blogger on a variety of psychology topics. Check it out.

• One of Jeremy’s blog posts is a series he created in which he lists a lot of excellent psychology blogs. Check out this post on his site.

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Equity and the lack of fairness strike again! What would happen if you were suddenly (even temporarily) moved to an office (or dorm room) that was smaller than the one you’re in now? Would you be less productive? Less satisfied? I bet you would. Let’s see how this was studied in a classic field experiement by psychologist Jerry Greenberg.

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• Opps! Around 19 minutes into the podcast I say that you have to “observationally define” a smile. I meant “operationally define” a smile. Sorry ’bout that. I’ll try to fix that tonite.
• Greenberg, J. (1988), “Equity and workplace status: a field experiment”, Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 73 pp.606-13.
• Here is the link to my previous episode on the concept of Equity.
• Here is the link to my previous episode on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.

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What do psychologists think about the effects of violent video games and violence in the media on viewers? Does it lead people to be more aggressive? More violent? Or is it the other way around - that aggressive people are drawn to violent media? We explore this question in this episode along with taking a close look at the classic “Bobo” doll study that was conducted by Albert Bandura. And we throw in a little James Bond along the way.

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Resources For This Episode

• Here’s the article that appeared in the Stanford News Service which announces the Grawemeyer Award that was given to Albert Bandura.
• Albert Bandura’s website.
• Here’s a version of Bandura’s original article on the effects of observing aggressive models which I found on Google Scholar.
• Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research
• Bully
• Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
• The Rodney Atkins - Watching You video on YouTube

Here’s the video from YouTube called “Watching You”:


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