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Lothar Bodingbauer Wenn es um den Kopf und um das Denken geht. Psychosachen. Englischsprachig. 2018-10-09

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2024-11-17

  Anauralia: what's it like to have no inner monologue?

How clear is your inner voice? Do you internally narrate your life? And do you get songs stuck in your head?Almost all of us can imagine sounds in our minds. But a small part of the population don't have internal auditory imagery — a phenomenon called ...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-11-10

  Can you recognise a love song in any language?

Music is a universal feature of the human experience — present from our very first cultures and civilisations.But do the features of particular songs and styles translate across cultural boundaries? Like, is a lullaby recognisable even when it's from a...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-11-03

  Girl, Interrupted: the extreme emotions of PMDD

Laura would spend weeks feeling normal — even happy. But like clockwork, every month, suddenly she would feel intense depression, making her unrecognisable to herself and friends.It took her nearly two decades to identify what was causing this rollerco...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-10-27

  Spooky science: what's behind a paranormal experience?

Professor Chris French has been studying the paranormal for decades. But — he’s a sceptic.In an All in the Mind Halloween special, we explore the psychology behind our spooky encounters.What's going on in your brain when you see a ghost? How do people ...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-10-20

  Sick of scrolling? Digital minimalism could help

How many hours have you spent on your phone today? And do you feel like it's too many?A growing movement of people are going without their smartphones and computers in favour of just about anything that doesn't have a screen.They say it's giving their ...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-10-13

  Can we trust our memories?

We don't remember everything that happens to us — so why do we remember what we remember?And the memories we do lock away aren't always accurate or trustworthy.This week, we're talking about the fallibility of memory and why sometimes it's healthy to f...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-10-06

  Grit and a goal: tricking your brain into loving running

We know running is good for the body, but what about the brain? Hear from people who love running about the psychological tools they use to stay active, including some advice from a professor who's taught their entire class to run a marathon. Looking f...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-09-29

  Once taboo, now good for you: the psychology of masturbation

This week we're talking about something intimate … And at-times taboo … Masturbation.From self-love, to disordered behaviour, and back again, how our perceptions of masturbation have changed over the course of history and why it's still linked to shame...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-09-22

  Mates vs strangers — why humans connect and divide

It's human nature to form groups — families, friends, online communities. We love to be surrounded by people similar to us.But that can also make us discriminatory and defensive. And social media makes that instinct worse.Today, we look at how our brai...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author
2024-09-15

  Cranky and depressed: Why bad sleep equals bad mental health

When you think about pillars of health a few things might come to mind — nutrition, exercise, connectedness. But there's something many of us miss off that list — sleep.Insomnia does so much more than make us cranky, it's closely tied to our mental hea...
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation author