Here is another cool new episode of Natasha Mitchell's All in the Mind. How do I get her job? Wouldn't be awesome to talk to leaders in their fields each week about brain, mind, and psychology? Maybe that's just me.
Don't follow your instincts! Supernormal stimuli
'Follow your instincts' - it's that old adage we all hold true. Well, don't. Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett argues our ancestral minds are leading us astray in a 21st century world. From obesity to beauty, warfare to television, it's time to use our big brains better.
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Guests
Dr Deirdre Barrett
Psychologist and writer
Past president, International Association for the Study of Dreams
Lecturer, Behavioural Medicine Program, Harvard Medical SchoolFurther Information
Publications
Title: Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
Author: Deirdre Barrett
Publisher: WW Norton and Co, NY, 2010Title: The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists and Athletes Use Dreams for Creative Problem Solving - and How You Can Too.
Author: Deirdre Barrett
Publisher: Oneiroi Press, 2001Title: Waistland: The (R)Evolutionary Science behind our Weight and Fitness crisis
Author: Deirdre Barrett
Publisher: W.W Norton and Company, 2007Title: The Pregnant Man: And Other Cases from a Hypnotherapist's Couch
Author: Deidre Barrett
Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 1999Title: The New Science of Dreaming (3 volumes)
Author: Deirdre Barrett and Patrick McNamara (editors)
Publisher: Praeger, 2007.Presenter
Natasha Mitchell
Why not start your own podcast? You have as much, if not more, insight into the human condition as other podcasters I've listened to. If you are a good interviewer you could build up a reputation and get some great interviewees.
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