Psychology
Paul Wood - From Prison to PhD
How do you turn your life around? We ask Dr Paul Wood, who at 18 was in prison for killing his drug dealer. Today he has a PhD and works to help people transform their lives. Audio
Margaret Bowater - Nightmares
Margaret Bowater is president of the Dream Network Aotearoa and regional representative on the International Association for the Study of Dreams. And she's the author Healing the Nightmare - Freeing… Audio
Are you being gaslighted?
Have you ever been in a relationship where your partner did little things to make you think you're going crazy? Gaslighting can be a severe form of psychological abuse, in which a person is… Audio
Josh Davis: prosopagnosia and super-recognisers
Kim Hill talks to Dr Josh Davis, Reader for Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Social Work and Counselling at the University of Greenwich. He has published research on human face recognition… Audio
Online dating and the game of love: a psychologist’s approach
Online dating is a popular way of meeting people, and Sonia Sly finds out some of the benefits and pitfalls of starting relationships online. Audio
Online dating and the game of love: a psychologist’s approach
Online dating is a popular way of meeting people, and Sonia Sly finds out some of the benefits and pitfalls of starting relationships online.
AudioMind over matter
Psychology professor Marc Wilson talks about minds games used against the competition in sport and in life. Audio
Silent cries
In New Zealand one in four children under the age of 18 are said to be living in a situation of physical violence, neglect or abuse. Men are often the perpetrators, but women also have a hand in… Audio
Dr Park Dietz - the psychology of murder
Dr Park Dietz has been named as one of the top ten psychiatrists of all time. He is a forensic psychiatrist who has consulted and testified in some of the US's highest profile criminal cases including… Audio
Dacher Keltner: power and corruption
Kim Hill talks to the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, whose new book is The Power Paradox: How We Gain and… Audio
Penis transplant a 'surgical milestone'
A man in Boston whose penis was amputated three years ago has had a successful transplant operation - the first of its kind in the United States.
Nick Haslam - Concept Creep
Ever get the feeling that people are just too sensitive these days? From trigger warnings to claims of cyber bullying to demands that university campuses ban disagreeable voices … the concepts of… Audio
Susan David: emotional agility
Jim Mora talks to the founder and co-director of the Harvard-affiliated Institute of Coaching, and the CEO of management consultancy Evidence Based Psychology, whose new book is Emotional Agility: Get… Audio
How being left or right-handed could influence your politics
Chicago University psychologist, Daniel Casasanto is a leader in research on experiential relativity, that's the theory that people who have different kinds of bodies, who speak different languages… Audio
Pose for confidence
Take a Wonder Woman power pose to look and feel more confident. Audio
'Rat Casino' - Michael Barrus
Scientists from Canda's University of British Columbia have built a 'rat casino', to investigate addictive behaviours. Catharine Winstanley and Michael Barrus are from the university's Department of… Audio
Why 'It's Not Fair' - Assistant Professor Peter Blake
'It's not fair' is a phrase most parents will hear from their child at some point. And new research has come out looking at just how a child's sense of fairness develops. American psychologists Peter… Audio
Pop of the Shops
Yadana Saw looks into the science behind in store music and the people who are responsible for what we hear in shops, cafes and gyms around the country. Audio
US psychologist Philip Zimbardo
Philip Zimbardo is the American psychologist whose 1971 study on prison mentality exposed the ease at which participants playing the role of guards, began psychologically torturing their prisoners.The… Audio
Music and Dreams Part 1
Welcome to the pleasure dome - An introduction to dreams and music.
Since ancient times, the arts have been inspired by dreams. Ryan Smith looks at some famous composers from different eras who have… Audio