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We're starting our summer season by reflecting on last year's university experience of two Heriot-Watt University Dubai graduates: Kriti Kothari and Anjola Folorunsho!

Tune in as they share the process behind writing a dissertation, the highs and how to celebrate them, the lows and how to conquer them, and everything in between.

Welcome back to our first GetPsyched summer season! We are so excited to bring you new, exciting, and insightful content throughout the next couple of months. Thank you for sticking around!

Join us in today's in-depth discussion about artificial intelligence (AI) and its relationship with psychology! In this episode, we delve into topics such as whether AI is similar to the human mind or not, data analysis, how AI can help treat psychological disorders and the future of AI.

Script-Writer, Researcher, and Host: Esha Mahendran
Guests:

• Mr Talal Abdul Ghani - Programme Director of BSc CS (AI) & MSc Software Engineering
  at Heriot-Watt University Dubai.
• Alister Luiz - 4th-year Computer Science student pursuing a BSc honours degree in Data Science at Heriot-Watt University Dubai.

References 

Khasawneh, O., 2018. Technophobia without borders: The influence of technophobia and emotional intelligence on technology acceptance and the moderating influence of organizational climate. Computers in Human Behavior, 88, pp.210-218. 

Harms, P., & Credé, M. (2010). Emotional Intelligence and Transformational and Transactional Leadership: A Meta-Analysis. Journal Of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 17(1), 5-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/1548051809350894 

Bassett, C. (2018). The computational therapeutic: exploring Weizenbaum’s ELIZA as a history of the present. AI & SOCIETY, 34(4), 803-812. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0825-9 

Weizenbaum, J. (1966). ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine. Communications Of The ACM, 9(1), 36-45. https://doi.org/10.1145/365153.365168 

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Bennion, M. R., Hardy, G. E., Moore, R. K., Kellett, S., & Millings, A. (2020). Usability, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of Web-Based Conversational Agents to Facilitate Problem Solving in Older Adults: Controlled Study. Journal of medical Internet research, 22(5), e16794. https://doi.org/10.2196/16794  

Morgan, JA (2018) Yesterday’s tomorrow today: Turing, Searle and the contested significance of artificial intelligence. In: Realist Responses to Post-Human Society: Ex Machina. Routledge, pp. 82-137.  

Wiederhold B. K. (2018). "Alexa, Are You My Mom?" The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Child Development. Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking, 21(8), 471–472. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2018.29120.bkw  

Tschopp, Marisa & Ruef, Marc. (2017). Psychology of Artificial Intelligence - Foundations, Range, Implications from a humanities perspective. - used in conclusion 

Join us in this episode's case study about Luka Mahnoggta. Find out how his story can be possibly linked to Narcissism Personality Disorder (NPD) according to Alexander Lowen's Theory. In this episode, we also talk about what the basic traits for NPD are according to the DSM-V criteria,  and the different types of Narcissism.

Script-Writer: Cheryl Anthony
Co-hosts: Cheryl Anthony and Niranjan Vinayakrishnan

References 

Akhtar, S. (1989). Narcissistic personality disorder: Descriptive features and differential diagnosis. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 12(3), 505-529.

Campbell, W. K., & Miller, J. D. (2011). The handbook of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder: Theoretical approaches, empirical findings, and treatments. John Wiley & Sons.

Cooper, A. M., & Ronningstam, E. (1992). Narcissistic personality disorder. American psychiatric press review of psychiatry.

Freud, S. (1957). On narcissism: An introduction. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works, 67-102.

Gabbard, G. O. (1989). Two subtypes of narcissistic personality disorder. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic.

Kohut, H. (1966). Forms and transformations of narcissism. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic association, 14(2), 243-272.

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Pincus, A. L., & Lukowitsky, M. R. (2010). Pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder. Annual review of clinical psychology, 6, 421-446.

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Join us in today's discussion where we talk about the impact of media (social, online streaming platforms, etc)  portrayals on children, teenagers, and the impact that media has on social movements, self-image, and mental health. We also briefly discuss the things that the media does right!

Hosts: Farah and Sara
Script-Writer: Cheryl  

References 

Journal Articles 

• Anderson, M., & Jiang, J. (2018). Teens, social media & technology 2018. Pew Research Center, 31, 2018. 
• Aubrey, J. S., & Harrison, K. (2004). The gender-role content of children's favorite television programs and its links to their gender-related perceptions. Media psychology, 6(2), 111-146. 
• Botta, R. A. (1999). Television images and adolescent girls’ body image disturbance. Journal of Communication, 49, 22–41.  
• Bridge, J. A., Greenhouse, J. B., Ruch, D., Stevens, J., Ackerman, J., Sheftall, A. H., ... & Campo, J. V. (2020). Association between the release of netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and suicide rates in the United States: An interrupted time series analysis. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 59(2), 236-243. 
• Clayton, R. B., Ridgway, J. L., & Hendrickse, J. (2017). Is plus size equal? The positive impact of average and plus-sized media fashion models on women’s cognitive resource allocation, social comparisons, and body satisfaction. Communication Monographs, 84(3), 406-422. 
• Dill-Shackleford, K.E., Ramasubramanian, S., Behm-Morawitz, E., Scharrer, E., Burgess, M.C.R., & Lemish, D. (2017). Social Group Stories in the Media and Child Development. Pediatrics, 140(140S2). doi:10.1542/peds.2016-1758W 
• Dunn, E. R. (2017). Blue is the New Black: How Popular Culture is Romanticizing Mental Illness. 
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• Matrix, S. (2014). The Netflix effect: Teens, binge watching, and on-demand digital media trends. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 6(1), 119-138. 
• Myrick, J. G., & Pavelko, R. L. (2017). Examining differences in audience recall and reaction between mediated portrayals of mental illness as trivializing versus stigmatizing. Journal of Health Communication, 22(11), 876-884. 
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• Richins, M. (1991). Social comparison and the idealized images of advertising. Journal of Consumer Research, 18, 71–83. 
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Tune in to discover the interplay between psychology and marketing! How does advertising impact different age groups, what are the consequences of stereotypes in media, and how did advertisements progress on online and social platforms? Joining us to explore these questions is Dr Ross Curran, an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, Dubai.  His primary research interests include nonprofit and tourism marketing, international management, and pedagogy.

Co-hosts: Esha Mahendran and Tooba Dawood
Guest: Dr Ross Curran

Dr Ross Curran's profile: https://www.hw.ac.uk/dubai/profiles/teaching/ross-curran.htm

In this episode, Cheryl and Zaina talk about the two case studies of 'Sandra' and 'B.T.' - two individuals diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Tune in to hear more about what DID is, some of its causes, and how different ego "alters" can have different characteristics (memories, gender, race, disabilities, etc.).

Hosts and Researchers: Cheryl Anthony and Zaina Nayeem

References

Case Study 1-

American Psychiatric Association (2016) Patient Story: Dissociative Disorders. Available at: https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/dissociative-disorders/patient-story (Accessed: 2 February 2021).

Case Study 2-

Strasburger, H., & Waldvogel, B. (2015). Sight and blindness in the same person: Gating in the visual system. PsyCh journal, 4(4), 178–185. 

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What is positive psychology? How can this field of research help us cope during the Covid-19 pandemic? Tune in and find out which factors put us at risk or build our resiliency during times of adversity, and how you, as a student, can cultivate strengths to improve your day-to-day life.

Hosts: Farah Ahmed, Sara Rizzo
Guest: Esha Mahendran

Researchers: Farah Ahmed, Sara Rizzo, Esha Mahendran, Tooba Dawood, Mariya Athar.

Over the past 12 months, the Covid-19 pandemic impacted and continues to impact lives around the globe. Higher education has consequently gone through a lot of unprecedented challenges and changes, including online learning for students. Today, however, we’re here to talk about the impact of Covid-19 on faculty members and joining us from the University of Heriot-Watt Dubai is Dr Mercedes Sheen, Head of the Psychology Department and Associate Professor.  

Tune in and find out how faculty what challenges faculty members face, how they overcome them, and what are the positives they hope to carry back to face-to-face teaching.

Get to know our expanded team for the new semester, and all of the cool new episodes we're planning for you! Everything from discussions and interviews, to case study stories and cross-discipline episodes!

The Team:

Interviews: Farah Ahmed

Discussions: Farah Ahmed, Sara Rizzo, Mariya Athar (Researcher)

Spotlight (cross-discipline discussions): Esha Mahendran and Tooba Dawood

Case Study Stories: Cheryl Anthony and Zaina Nayeem