Learning Psychology

Learning Psychology

By Eskil BurckMedicine
Download on the App Store

Learning Psychology episodes

  • (29) "Only a few items left!" - Reactance in Consumer Psychology
    Usually reactance shields us from persuasion attempts. Because we do not want to be treated like marionettes, but we want to decide on our own.
    We hate it when our freedom gets threatened and as a result
    we often counteract.
    Unfortunately, our counteraction is often utilized by
    marketing experts...
    Keywords:
    Manipulation, Reactance, Consumer Psychology, Marketing, Advertising, Social Psychology, mind, Brain, Influence, Psychology
    Author: Eskil Burck (Degreed Psychologist)
    http://www.learningpsychology.net/
    24 min
  • (30) Persuasion via Handshake
    Can you improve compliance just by handshaking?
    Guéguen, N. (2013). Handshaking and compliance with a request: A door-to-door setting. Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 41(10), 1585-1588.
    Keywords:
    Manipulation, Handshake, Consumer Psychology, Marketing, Advertising, Social Psychology, mind, Brain, Influence, Psychology, Touch
    Author: Eskil Burck (Degreed Psychologist)
    http://www.learningpsychology.net/
    4 min
  • (31) Do video games make you more intelligent (or dumb)?
    Do video games make you more intelligent? Given the current state of research the answer should be differentiating ...
    Keywords:
    IQ, Video Games, Intelligence, intelligent Social Psychology, mind, Brain, Influence, Psychology
    Author: Eskil Burck (Degreed Psychologist)
    http://www.learningpsychology.net/
    10 min
  • (28) Does Being Attractive always help?
    In almost all areas of life attractive people are preferred.
    In this episode we take a look at the (extremely rare) cases in which attractive people are disadvantaged.
    Keywords:
    Attraction, Halo effect, job interview, jealousy, Social Psychology, mind, Brain, Influence, Psychology
    Author: Eskil Burck (Degreed Psychologist)
    http://www.learningpsychology.net/
    19 min
  • (27) Mental Accounting - When your self-regulation strategy is used against you...
    In real life most of us usually have only one or two accounts at the bank.
    According to the Nobel laureates Tversky and Kahnemann the situation in our mind is quite different:
    They assume that we have mental accounts for all the different areas of life (vacation, education, entertainment, etc.).
    On the one hand these mental accounts allow us to save money for longterm goals (e.g. leave account).
    On the other hand mental accounting can also be exploited deliberately by marketing experts and sales people ...
    Keywords:
    Mental Accounting, Tversky, Kahnemann, willpower, self-regulation, self-control, self-discipline, Social Psychology, mind, Brain, Influence, Psychology
    Author: Eskil Burck (Degreed Psychologist)
    http://www.learningpsychology.net/
    12 min
  • (25) Psychology and Justice - Is Justice Really Blind?
    In many depictions the goddess of justice (lady justice) is presented with a blindfold.
    By that it shall be expressed that before the law all men are equal - regardless of their position or their appearance.
    But is this really true?
    Keywords:
    Justice - Psychology - Criminals - Appearance - Beauty - Plastic Surgery - Social Psychology - Lawyer - Judge
    Author: Eskil Burck (Degreed Psychologist)
    http://www.learningpsychology.net/
    17 min
  • (24) Mind Reading Made Easy
    Mind Readers like Derren Brown do not really read your mind.
    They mainly use magic tricks.
    But sometimes they also use psychological knowledge to predict, what is going to be your next number...
    Keywords:
    Derren Brown - Mind Reading - Priming - Influence - Manipulation
    Author: Eskil Burck (Degreed Psychologist)
    http://www.learningpsychology.net/
    13 min
  • (23) The Halo Effect
    In the 1920s Edward Thorndike discovered that when people were asked to rate another person, their ratings were strongly influenced by single personality traits (e.g. appearance).
    He called this phenomenon the "halo effect"...
    Keywords:
    Halo Effect - Psychology - Thorndike - Dion - Attractiveness - Social Psychology
    Author: Eskil Burck (Degreed Psychologist)
    http://www.learningpsychology.net/
    19 min
  • (19) Rethinking Fear and Stress?
    For a long time a high stress level was associated wit negative health outcomes.
    In recent years, however, emerging evidence suggests, that it is not only stress itself that causes health problems but also our attitude towards stress.
    Thus in new experiments (e.g. Beltzer, Nock, Peters and Jamieson, 2014) scientists tested, how to restructure our dysfunctional thought patterns.
    The results are promising ...
    Keywords:
    Fear - Stress - Psychology - Rethinking - Reframing - Cognitive Therapy - CBT - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - social phobia - Trier Stress Test
    Author: Eskil Burck (Degreed Psychologist)
    http://www.learningpsychology.net/
    17 min

About Learning Psychology

From the publisher's feed

What makes us happy? How can we help people with depressive disorder? Is it possible to improve intelligence?... Scientists all over the world seek to find answers to these questions. Let's take a…