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The concept of the week is "Confirmation Bias," a concept from the field of Social psychology, specifically social cognition.  We explore how it works and the implications to us and the people around us when we engage in this cognitive bias.

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Social Psych Text book
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/principles-of-social-psychology

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Happy new year, friends!  In this new year, new season of the podcast, Dr. Jack talks about what to expect for the new year.

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Hello friends, I wanted to take this opportunity in this end of year episode to express my gratitude to my listeners and supporters - to discuss what I'll be doing this summer (there will be bonus episodes) and planning for new episodes (edit:) COMING IN JANUARY, 2022!  In this episode I also discuss the importance of following, subscribing and supporting your favorite independent (indie) podcasters. Update: I talked about my affiliate links near the end of the episode, but decided to remove them from show notes, to keep things tidy.
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In this episode my co-host Aye, and I chat with Dr. Regina Koepp, Geropsychologist -clinical psychologist specializing in geriatrics - host of the podcast, "Psychology of Aging" about her amazing origin story, career arc, and her latest project, the Center for Mental Health and Aging. We discuss the importance of community colleges, common misconceptions about mental health issues with elderly persons, and why a student pursuing a career in psychology should seriously consider the field of geropsychology.  We only scratched the surface, and hope to have Dr. Koepp back in future episodes! 

How to find Dr. Regina Koepp: 

• https://www.mentalhealthandaging.com 
• Psychology of Aging Podcast  
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/regina-koepp-psyd-abpp-a83a2825/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drreginakoepp/ 
• Twitter:  https://twitter.com/drreginakoepp 

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This week I have the pleasure and honor to pick the brain of Dr. Richard Nisbett, who recently released his memoir, "Thinking."  He is one of the most influential social psychologists of our time, especially in the realm of social cognition.  We covered a wide variety of subjects, from his storied career, loss of his close friend of 55 years, Dr. Lee Ross, aspects of his research he wished received more attention, multicultural psychology topics such as the bamboo ceiling, and more.   

Here are some relevant links from the episode:

https://bookpublicityservices.com/thinking-a-memoir-by-richard-e-nisbett/ https://www.richardnisbett.com/ 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10299632-the-person-and-the-situation 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226630.The_Geography_of_Thought 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13543093-the-better-angels-of-our-nature 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11140803-american-nations 

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As part of our series on May's Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage and Mental Health Month, I have the privilege of introducing my very first interview guest, Aye Khaine, my better half.  She's Burmese (or Myanmar) American, has a Master's in Social Work, and she takes us on a brief journey to understand Myanmar culture, working with refugees in the states, and explore aspects of the current military coup and tangible actions we are taking to help our friends in Myanmar.  I hope by listening to Aye, we can reflect upon the immense diversity amongst Asian Americans, that one of the takeaways of the AAPI Heritage month is to learn that what we think of as Asian, is quite diverse and cannot be grouped together into a simplistic, unified group of people.  

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I am dedicating my May 2021 episodes to talk about 2 major themes, and everything in-between: The Asian American Experience, and Mental Health.  I am also flip-flopping my format, covering the topics related to the episode title FIRST, then in the second half, talk about other issues on my mind.  I hope you enjoy the new format. 

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In this episode I talk about one of my favorite psychological concepts, which is Attribution Theory, and its primary components, dispositional and situational explanations. This is a core theory within social psychology, specifically social cognition. The main reason I chose this subject is how relevant this is to our everyday life, and how we make judgments of people. Listen in for my challenge to you, to be more more a Situationist thinker, not a Dispositionist.

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In this episode I reflect on how the pandemic-filled year altered my approach to teaching online college classes. Here’s a hint: Humanize. 

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In this episode I talk about my experience and reactions to taking the free, one hour, bystander intervention training by ihollaback.org. In summary, I highly recommend it, without reservations (well, you do need to reserve a spot and sign up!) - but you know what I mean. My thoughts on the training begin at the 21:00 mark, but before that I talk about recent events and answer listener mail about pursuing a career in clinical psychology, and ideas for having guests on future episodes. (Edit: Voicemail feature & coffee shops mentioned are not available)

Links talked about on the show: 

https://www.ihollaback.org 

https://youtube.com/c/lukemiani (all about Macs) 

The Good Samaritan Study: 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwins-subterranean-world/201703/my-favorite-psychology-study 

Kitty Genovese Murder:

https://www.history.com/topics/crime/kitty-genovese 

Camping in Texas!

https://texasstateparks.reserveamerica.com 

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