Psychology

Deputy Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Auckland, whose new book is psychology for a Better World: Strategies to Inspire Sustainability. Audio

Jon Ronson's new book, 'The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry', looks at psychopaths and how we define what is normal and what isn't. Audio

Dr Deirdre Barrett, assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and author of The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists and Athletes Use Dreams for Creative… Audio

Leading social psychologist on the science of happiness and the value of cultivating positive emotions. She discovered that experiencing positive emotions in a 3-to-1 ratio with negative ones leads… Audio

Professor Matthias Mehl, from the University of Arizona, on why people who open up about the deeper issues in their daily lives tend to be happier than those who don't. Audio

Leading psychologist Gary Marcus talks us through the un-holy trinity of office life: boredom, worry and procrastination. Audio