Interviews with Psychologists about their New Books
https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/science-technology/psychology/
episode 9: Caroline Stokes, "Elephants Before Unicorns: Emotionally Intelligent HR Strategies to Save Your Company" (Entrepreneur Press, 2019)
How does avoidance of conflict ultimately create more conflict in the workplace?
episode 76: Saul J. Weiner, "On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Weiner argues that joy in medicine requires more than idealistic aspirations―it demands a capacity to see past the "otherness" that separates the well from the sick,...
episode 57: Evy Poumpouras, "Becoming Bulletproof" (Atria Press, 2020)
Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games, Evy Poumpouras, shares lessons learned from protecting presidents...
episode 56: S. Moskalenko and C. McCauley, "Radicalization to Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2020)
The authors propose twelve mechanisms that can move individuals, groups, and mass publics from political indifference to sympathy and support for terrorist violence...
episode 8: Charlene Li, "The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations Transform While Others Fail" (IdeaPress, 2019)
What does it take for a company’s culture to enable ongoing growth?
episode 109: Pehr Granqvist, "Attachment in Religion and Spirituality: A Wider View" (Guilford Press, 2020)
Granqvist focuses on the connections between early caregiving experiences, attachment patterns, and individual differences in religious cognition, experience, and behavior...
episode 164: Ben Cohen, "The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks" (Custom House, 2020)
Do streaks exist?
episode 108: Emily Balcetis, "Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World" (Ballantine Books, 2020)
How can we improve our productivity by literally seeing the world differently than before?
episode 221: Cressida J. Heyes, "Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge" (Duke UP, 2020)
How should we think about the relationship between subjectivity and experience?
episode 110: E. Lonergan and M. Blyth, "Angrynomics" (Agenda/Columbia UP, 2020)
How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing?