Here We Are

Nidhi Agrawal is a marketing superhero using her powers for the good of public health. 

Why don't we think bad things can happen to us? Why do we assume that when bad things happen to others, it's their fault?

Can we guilt someone into making the right choices? When might that work? When might it backfire? 

Nidhi Agrawal is a Professor of Marketing at the Foster School of Business at The University of Washington. Nidhi Agrawal | Foster School of Business

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Emotions researcher Jeff Larsen returns to the show to explain exponential growth and how exponential growth distinguishes the threat of a pandemic like the Corona Virus up against the threat of the flu. Even more importantly, we exam the importance and difficulty of cognitive reflection. We also explore a mix of emotions.

Jeff is a Professor of Psychology at The University of Tennessee Knoxville

https://psychology.utk.edu/faculty/larsen.php

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This feels like one of the most important podcasts I have ever done.

Nina Fefferman has spent a career working on mathematical models of pandemics. I cannot express how reassuring it is to have a mind like this working to help us all. Nina's ability to communicate such complex topics in a way that a child could understand makes this a MUST LISTEN episode. 

Please share this information with anyone that you can!

Nina Fefferman 

Professor or Ecology and Evolutionary Biology And Professor of Mathematics at University of Tennessee Knoxville 

Associate Director of the One Health Initiative 

Director of Mathematical modeling center

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In a time of hoarding, Caroline Roux is one of the precious few experts on scarcity. We talk about why people hoard, and what happens when everyone takes a little more than they need. If you don't leave enough hand sanitizer for your neighbor, you endanger yourself and everyone else.

We also get some related marketing tips for your business and more importantly, I find out how I can dupe more people into supporting my podcast.

Caroline is Associate Professor of Marketing and Concordia University Research Chair in Psychology of Resource Scarcity.

Scarcity-related social media accounts:

https://twitter.com/ScarcityInsight

https://www.facebook.com/understandingscarcity/

 

Personal website and social media accounts:

https://sites.google.com/site/profcaroroux/

https://twitter.com/RouxCaroline

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rouxcaroline/

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Kari Nixon is a disease loving, well-read oddball with a contagious interest in contagion and a wonderful sense of humor. She also has some pretty amazing timing on the release of her first book “Kept from All Contagion:” Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact. 

We discuss diseases through history, what literature, and how they have appeared in pop culture in the past. We talk about her favorite diseases and some truly horrifying fails in the history of science.

Kari Nixon is a Victorian Scholar and Medical Humanities Scholar at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA

Follow her at @HalfSickShadows 

 

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I have an overworked editor, assistant, and media person trying to help me crank out lots of extra episodes of infotainment during this crisis.

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Return guest Athena Aktipis is an author, professor and podcaster. She is also the chair of the (wait for it...) Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting (ZAMM) an interdisciplinary conference where art, science and medicine come together with the aim of solving complex issues.

Yup. You read that right. 

Sure she does a bunch of more sciencey sounding things too, but who more fitting at a time like this than a cancer researching badass with a delightful science podcast about apocalypse scenarios?

Check out all the amazing things she does.

Main site: http://www.athenaaktipis.org

Book: www.cheatingcell.com

Pod: www.zombified.org, @ZombifiedPod

Conference: www.zombiemed.org, @ZombieMedEd

Satirical News Platform: www.reversepsychologytoday.com, @psychnewstoday

Human Generosity Project: www.humangenerosity.com @generousnature

Personal twitter: @AthenaAktipis

Lab twitter: @AktipisLab

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Jennifer Verdolin joins me as I apologize for not heeding her early prophetic warning and ask her to take a whack at how long we will have to be physical distancing. 

It's a charming, fun, and educational conversation about how animals deal with illness, responsible pet care during a pandemic, and why cues of scarcity are making us buy 80 year supplies of toilet paper.

Website: jenniferverdolin.com

Twitter: @RealDrJen

Instagram: @RealDrJen

YouTube: Wild Connection TV

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Tired of the same news on a loop?

On these special episodes, we discuss unique pandemic related scientific perspectives.

On this episode, authors of the book 'Objection: Disgust, Morality, and the Law' discuss how evolution shaped our disgust system. We expand on how this disgust systems which was originally adapted for other tasks has influenced our moral judgements, societies, and laws.

How can learning about our ancient past give us a new perspective on this modern crisis?

Debra Lieberman is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami where she is the co-director of the Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory.

Carlton Patrick, JD, PhD, is an American lawyer, author, and behavioral scientist. He studies and writes about the psychology of legal decision-making, often from an evolutionary perspective.

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Shane talks about cognitive psychology, teaching and learning with Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rhode Island College, Megan Sumeracki. 

Charity Of The Week: Planned Parenthood http://www.plannedparenthood.org/

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Outro Music by The Long Hunt

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Shane is joined by special guest Steve Gillespie to talk about bird brains with Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Tampa, Scott Husband.  

Charity Of The Week - The World Wildlife Fund https://www.worldwildlife.org/ 

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