Date
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Key Topics
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Guest(s)/Interview(s)
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17 May
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Coping with earthquakes, making reference to post traumatic stress disorder. Effectiveness of placebos. Listeners' correspondence previous week's subject of ostracism.
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Ted Kaptchuk & Irene Tracey (Placebos)
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24 May
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Stereotyping
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31 May
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Emotional abuse and sexual abuse in teenage relationships. Superior autobiographic memory (SAM), including Magnetic Resonance Imaging of people with exceptionally good memories.
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James McGorr & Bob Atrella (SAM)
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7 Jun
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Compassion in therapy, psychology of conjuring, whether television may be influencing children to eat junk food.
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17 Jun
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Responses to news of impending death. The difficulties in making predictions.
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Elizabeth Kubler Ross (News of death)
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21 Jun
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Stress, including mindfulness, influence of status hierarchy position on stress levels, and locus of control.
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Angela Clow, Michael Marnet
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28 Jun
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Mental illness and life expectancy in Hong Kong.
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5 Jul
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Compulsive Gambling and correlation of impulsivity, gambling behaviour (especially a belief in the gambler's fallacy and superstitious beliefs. Mental health benefits from working on allotments.
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12 Jul
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Motivations of, and help for, arsonists. Autism within families.
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Tessa Gannon (Arson) Michael Spencer (Autism)
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4 Oct
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Relationship between mental illness and premature mortality. Weight gain associated with some anti-psychotic drugs. Possible behavioural modification in eating habits to treat eating disorders.
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25 Oct
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Improving memory through self-testing at night-time.
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1 Nov
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Special edition on the book 'Nudge' by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
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15 Nov
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Interview with Daniel Kahnemann, the founding father of behavioural economics. The case study of a pair of Canadian conjoined twins linked by their thalamus. Dementia, and splits to the corpus callosum.
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Daniel Kahnemann (Relationship between economics and psychology)
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22 Nov
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Psychology of the riots in the UK in 2011. Effects of childhood bullying.
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13 Dec
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Changes in the hippocampus of taxi drivers, and more broadly, changes in brain structure following repeated performance of tasks requiring particular skills.
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