In this podcast episode, I sit down and have a chat with Wendy Wood on habits. Wendy Wood is the Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at University of Southern California, where she has been a faculty member since 2009. Wood completed her bachelor's degree at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Wood's primary research focuses on the effects of habits on behaviour. She is the author of the popular science book, Good Habits, Bad Habits, released in October 2019 The discussion focuses on the science of habit formation and ..read more

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Paul Bloom. Paul is an Canadian American psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on language, morality, religion, fiction, and art. Paul wrote a book Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion in 2016. The book draws on the distinctions between empathy, compassion, and moral decision making. Bloom argues that empathy is not the solution t ..read more

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Gina Rippon. Gina is a British neuroscientist. She is a professor emeritus of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham. In 2019, Rippon published her book, Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience that Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain, which investigates the role of life experiences and biology in brain development. The discussion mainly explores sex brain differences as well as behavioural differences between the sexes and their possible explanations. Brought to you by Oxford Univer ..read more

Brian is a professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is also the co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science as well as the co-Founder of Project Implicit. Brian received his bachelor’s from California Polytechnic State University in 1995, and earned two masters degrees and his P.H.D. from Yale University, completing his P.H.D. in 2002. Brian is very interested in implicit cognition (thoughts and feelings we are unaware of) and he has also worked in the Reproducibility Project, which aimed to solve the reproducibility crisis in social psychology. Broug ..read more

 David Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Criminology and founding Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University . David completed his PhD at Selwyn College Cambridge in 1983.  He is the former Editor of the prestigious Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, a Prior to taking up his academic appointment in September 1997, David was Senior Policy Advisor to the Prison Reform Trust, and between October 1983-April 1997 he worked as a Prison Governor.  His current research interests range from the phenomenon of British serial murder, family annihilation, hi ..read more

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Clinical Psychologist and Youtube Sensation, Kati Morton. Kati holds a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Kati is well known for her YouTube channel ‘Kati Morton’ which now has amassed over 950,000 subscribers, and over 74.5 million views. The discussion mainly focuses on life as therapist, eating disorders and debunking mental health myths. Brought to you by Oxford University Psychology Society Facebook: @Oxford University Psychology Society, Twitter ..read more

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Tim Harford. Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of “The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, “Messy”, and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s “More or Less”, the iTunes-topping series “Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, and the new podcast “Cautionary Tales”. Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary ..read more

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Baland Jalal. Baland is a researcher at Harvard University and a Visiting Researcher at Cambridge University. He obtained his PhD at the Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine. His research focuses on sleep paralysis and OCD. Along with VS Ramachandran, he has proposed a neuroscientific account for why people see ghosts during sleep paralysis. The Telegraph Described him as "one of the world's leading experts on sleep paralysis". The discussion mainly focus on OCD, its causes and its treatment. We also talk about ..read more

Jesse Bering is a research psychologist and Director of the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. An award-winning science writer specializing in human behaviour, his first book, The Belief Instinct (2011), was included on the American Library Association’s Top 25 Books of the Year. This was followed by a collection of his previously published essays, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? (2012), and Perv (2013), a taboo-breaking work that received widespread critical acclaim and was named as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. His most recent book, S ..read more

In this podcast episode, I sit down and have a chat with Wendy Wood on habits. Wendy Wood is the Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at University of Southern California, where she has been a faculty member since 2009. Wood completed her bachelor's degree at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Wood's primary research focuses on the effects of habits on behaviour. She is the author of the popular science book, Good Habits, Bad Habits, released in October 2019 The discussion focuses on the science of habit formation and ..read more