Seasonality, learning to hope, and the gender...

With moves to fast-track research into psychedelics to treat serious mental health conditions in the US and a flurry of new scientific studies, we look at the issue here. How convincing is the evidence that drugs like psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can help ...  Show more

In this week’s programme, guest Catherine Loveday, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Westminster, talks to Claudia Hammond about whether people feel emotions about politics differently in the body to everyday emotions. Visiting the Institute for the Science ...  Show more

Ça veut dire quoi d’être amoureux⸱se ? Pourquoi le ciel est-il bleu ? L’univers est-il vraiment infini ? Dans cet épisode, Lena Coutrot interroge notre besoin de comprendre… Avec l'astrophysicien et prix Nobel Didier Queloz, le philosophe des sciences Philippe Huneman et la cherc ...  Show more

Claudia Hammond presents a special edition of Health Check from the Northern Ireland Science Festival, where she’s joined by a panel of experts to discuss the psychology of hope.With a live audience in Belfast’s Metropolitan Arts Centre, Claudia speaks to Dr Karen Kirby, senior l ...  Show more

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How does hope work? 

In this episode from the archives, Rutgers University clinical psychologist

How do we decide we are in love? How can we know if it is the right person? Today’s guest tells us that we are all enacting a “love story.” These are the stories we tell ourselves about how romance and relationships should go. They are largely unconscious, but they form the found ...  Show more