Two Guys on Your Head

Two Guys on Your Head

By KUT & KUTX Studios, Dr. Art Markman & Dr. Bob DukeSociety & CultureScienceSocial SciencesEducation
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  • Procrastination
    Procrastination is the all-too-familiar foe of productivity, but why do some wait until the last minute to even get a project started? In this episode of “Two Guys on Your Head,” Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explore the psychology behind procrastination, and how we can overcome factors that might be keeping us from...
    8 min
  • How We Learn Language
    How we learn language as infants and what that process can teach us about learning new languages later in life in this edition of Two Guys on Your Head with Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke.
    8 min
  • Constructing Memory
    In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explore the many aspects of how we construct memories in bits and pieces, as well as how memories function and help our species evolve.
    8 min
  • Why Can School Be So Boring?
    If you’ve seen “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” or ever been in a classroom, you know that school can sometimes be very boring. However, learning and coming up with ideas in an environment with others in our social group should be fun! So why do schools get such a bad rap? In this episode of Two Guys...
    8 min
  • The Benefits of Forgiveness
    In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explore the psychological benefits of forgiveness. What we may think of as something trite or overrated has deep roots in our psychological well-being. It benefits us as a species to let things go.
    8 min
  • Celebration
    In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head Dr. Art Markman and Dr.Bob Duke discuss the evolutionary reasons behind the importance of celebration, gratitude, and achievement.
    8 min
  • Do We Need Greed?
    In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke look at how we have evolved to engage in greedy behaviors but maybe for the wrong reasons, and why it’s not necessarily natural for us to be greedy as a species.
    8 min
  • Belief
    How we develop beliefs and why it’s so hard for us to give them up in this edition of Two Guys on Your Head with Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke.
    8 min
  • How To Deal With Difficult People
    We discuss some healthy, productive strategies that can help us best deal with the jerks in our life in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head with Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke.
    8 min
  • Multitasking
    This week Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about why we can’t multitask even though we think we can.
    8 min

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