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Why We Do What We Do
We explain popular and weird, little-known ideas in psychology. Whether you are a little curious about psychology, or a student, or even a professional, we have something for everyone.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/why-we-do-what-we-do--3419521/support.
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Private Equity in Disability
Sometimes investment groups will purchase and then unify individually-owned, small businesses that provide care for people with disabilities. Once the...
Mini: Perfect Pitch Perfect
This is not about the movie(s). Amazingly, that didn't even occur to us before, during, or even immediately after recording this... This is about the...
Sexuality in Disabilities
A touchy topic that some people don't want to touch is sexuality as it relates to disability. There is some "moral" prudishness that borders on (if no...
Mini: Adaptive Sex Industry
The industry around sex equipment has been leading the charge in the development of equipment for different bodies and impairments. This mini describe...
Terms in Disability
The vernacular treadmill is ever running and we often find we are behind on the currently accepted terms. While some struggle to accept change, many o...
Mini: No Nut November
Do you believe in the magic of sperm? The longer you hold onto it, the mightier you become. Except, not. The idea of sperm retention does almost nothi...
Accessibility for All
Brilliant people have worked to create accessibility so comprehensively baked into our lives that we often don't even recognize that it is there. Howe...
Mini: Making Things More Accessible
This is a quick tutorial for making things more accessible and checking for accessibility when creating documents mostly in MS Office and Adobe. So, t...
Autism Subtypes
Continuing on with our suite on disability and accessibility, this episode explores new research exploring autism subtypes and their links to genetic...
Mini: Signs That Don't Mean You Have ADHD
Do you wake up after sleeping? Do you eat food when you are hungry? You might have ADHD! Not because of those things... those just mean you are human...
Models of Disability
How do we start talking about disabiliity? First, we need to understand how people thinking about and appraoch disability. This episode kicks off a su...
Mini: Thin Blue Line
The "Thin Blue Line" has a probable origin in military history. It has been employed as a symbol of law enforcement, but commoly applied in contrast t...
Ritual Sacrifice
Our final Halloween episode tackles a grizzly topic: Ritual Sacrifices. We explore some of the practices and reasons for sacfrifice throughout history...
Mini: Houska Castle
There is a mysterious castle in Czechia with defensive structures pointed inward toward the caste. There are also stories of a hole in the ground of u...
How Do Halloween Masks Affect Our Behavior?
Wearing a mask changes the way our social word interacts with us. This might mean access to rewards that we might not otherwise try to access, but the...
Mini: Creepy Pasta
Creepy pasta is/was a democratized way ot telling scary stories that are just on the edge of believability. They seem to have dissipated into various...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
One of the most iconic and well-established horror stories in the world, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a masterpiece of literature. The talented dire...
Mini: 666
We have a fascination with assigning meaning to various numbers. Actually, many cultures enjoy assigning meaning to numbers as well. In western tradit...
I Want To Take You To The Bermuda Triangle
Some spooky topics are geographically creepy. Arguably, the most famous scary geography is lovingly called The Bermuda Triangle. This portion of the w...
Mini: R.I.P.
This is our first Halloween mini of 2025! RIP is a well-wishing, a command, and an indication of your relationship to person or idea being bid farewel...
Variants of Hell
Welcome to our annual month of creepy topics! We are kicking off this year's selection with an overview of various conceptuatlizations of Hell from th...
Mini: Colored Noise
You have probably heard of white noise, but there are a variety of noise patterns that have been assigned a color. Some have proposed hypothetical ben...
Propaganda: How You Are Being Tricked pt. 2
In the last episode, we outlined several specific propaganda strategies. We conclude this discussion by explaining some ways we can attempt to combat...
Mini: Kintsugi
Kintsugi is a Japanese tradition of repairing broken things rather than retiring them, and in doing so making them stronger. It has a nice metaphor fo...
Propaganda: How You are Being Tricked pt. 1
Propaganda is remarkably effective at influencing your behavior, even if you don't recognize that it is happening. Being aware of its strategies can h...
Mini: How Many Faces Can You Remember?
A lot. Unless you have face blindness, you can remember a lot of faces. Is this all in the brian? We do our best to explain the research behind our ab...
Understanding Chiropractic
Once again, we have an idea that has mostly been bogged down in the septic tank of pseudoscience. There seems to be some therapeutic benefit to chirop...
Mini: That Time Humans Loved Radiation
This is another exploration of bad idea history. At one point, humans got really into consuming and surrounding themselves with irradiated materials....
Fast Fashion
Fast fashion is a business model that emphasizes extremely high volume, cheap clothing designed to only last a short amount of time. This strategy pro...
Mini: Do Our Pets Understand Us?
We have very special relationships with our pets. We usually try to talk to them. Do they understand what we are saying? Do they know their names? We...
The Importance of Peer Review
One could argue there are two ways of aggregating knowledge: by guessing or by verifying information. The current system for verifying is by checking...
Mini: Victim vs. Warrior
There is a proposal that there is a dichotomy in human activities (specifically the cognitive ones) that can be characterized as a "warrior" mentality...
The Psychology of Pain
Pain can be conceptualized physiologically, neurologically, and behaviorally. We review the physiological and neurological components of pain, and the...
Mini: Magic Eye
Autostereograms, better known as "Magic Eye" puzzles, are a unique 2D art in which repeated images create a 3D image, but you have to focus your eyes...
Punk Rock Legacy
Large musical movements are large cultural movements. Rap, rock, country, and other genres often galvanized or reflected social changes and values. Pu...
Mini: What is a Repertoire?
We often talk about what students can do by referring to their repertoire. But what does it mean to refer to their repertoire? A lot of philosohpy in...
Nostalgia: Board Games
Has it been so long? Abraham discusses his favorite discussion topic: Board games! Also ,there's been new research since that that further supports th...
Mini: Restless Leg Syndrome
Do you ever feel an nearly uncontrollable urge to move your legs? If you do, you probably still don't have RLS, but it may be worth getting tested for...
The Paraphilia Episode
SEX! Now that we have your attention, this episode reviews some of the paraphilias that exist. More importantly, we try to understand with a compassio...
Mini: What is "Learning?"
You would think we would want a full length for this topic. Maybe we still will do one! But for now, we figured we can at least help clear up some mis...