Examining behavior bullshitter Dr. Jack Brown...

A talk with an Army Psychological Operations soldier about what military psy-op work really involves—and how different the reality is from many people's ideas about the nature of that work. We discuss his psy-op work in Afghanistan, why credibility and truth are usually much more ...  Show more

Can machines spot a lie better than we can? I talk with psychology researcher Bennett Kleinberg, whose work brings together psychology, machine learning, natural-language processing, and deception detection. We explore why humans are bad at identifying lies, which verbal clues ma ...  Show more

In one of his favorite episodes of the Phil in the Blanks podcast, Dr. Phil brings together The Behavior Panel: behavioral and body language experts, who break down the clues and signals we give one another and explain how to interpret body language and understand human behavior. ...  Show more

Bullshit can be found all around us. But how do you know when it's actually harmful and dangerous? John Petrocelli, social psychologist and author of the new book The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit joins Modern Mentor for a conversation to help decode, demystify, and ...  Show more

This week on Hidden Brain, we find out what makes humans of all ages cheat. Plus in Stopwatch Science, Dan Pink comes armed with studies on how our social context influences our cheating habits.

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Blamers, complainers, and bullies, oh my! The Savvy Psychologist offers 4 tips for dealing with difficult people, and 5 more for taking care of yourself after a close encounter with the difficult kind. Plus, does bedwetting predict psychopathy? Find out in our new Savvy Listener ...  Show more