60-Second Mind
338 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 9 years ago - ★★★★ - 215 ratingsTune in every Saturday for quick commentary on the latest news in behavior and brain research—it'll just take a minute
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The Real Concern When Couples Fight
June 26, 2010 09:00 - 2 minutesNew research reveals that nearly all fights between romantic partners can be distilled into two fundamental complaints. Christie Nicholson reports
How We Fool Ourselves Over and Over
June 19, 2010 09:00 - 3 minutesIn a new book "The Invisible Gorilla and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us," authors Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons show how little we know about our own knowledge. Christie Nicholson reports
The Staying Power of Alcoholics Anonymous
June 12, 2010 09:00 - 2 minutesCelebrating its 75th anniversary, Alcoholics Anonymous continues to lead addicts to sobriety as long as they stick with it for the long haul. Christie Nicholson reports
Lower IQ Scores Linked to Higher Suicide Risk
June 05, 2010 09:00 - 2 minutesA study of over one million men shows a link between IQ scores and attempted suicide. Christie Nicholson reports
College Students Are Less Empathic Than Generations Past
May 29, 2010 09:00 - 2 minutesResearch presented at the conference of the Association for Psychological Science found that today's college students are far less empathic than their counterparts 30 years ago. Christie Nicholson reports
Soil Bacteria Might Increase Learning
May 24, 2010 19:00 - 2 minutesResearch presented this week shows that exposure to a specific bacteria found in soil increases learning in mice. Christie Nicholson reports
Digging Deeper into the Entire Brain
May 16, 2010 16:00 - 2 minutesA recent paper in the journal Nature finally brings some vindication to fMRI, one of the most popular methods used to study the brain. Christie Nicholson reports
Facial Expressions of Mice in Pain
May 12, 2010 16:00 - 2 minutesRecent research has found that mice make humanlike facial expressions when they are in pain. Christie Nicholson reports
Risk-Taking Behavior in Teens
May 03, 2010 09:00 - 2 minutesMany studies suggest that risk-taking behavior in teens is due to the slow development of brain function that controls impulsivity. New research concludes it's not that simple. Christie Nicholson reports
Auditory Illusions
April 25, 2010 18:00 - 3 minutesTwo classic auditory illusions. Try them out! Christie Nicholson reports
Making a Decision? Take Your Time
April 17, 2010 09:00 - 2 minutesA recent study shows that when faced with a decision, it's best to take some time--relax and cool off--so logical thinking can guide us to the best choice. Christie Nicholson reports
Using Light to Control the Brain
April 12, 2010 00:00 - 3 minutesA new approach to manipulating the brain with light is gaining increasing attention. Christie Nicholson reports
Neuroscience Is Everywhere
April 03, 2010 13:00 - 2 minutesFrom literature to architecture, academics and entrepreneurs are using neuroscience to explain everything from why we like a complex narrative thread to why round tables are more social. Christie Nicholson reports
Manipulating Moral Judgment
March 29, 2010 15:00 - 2 minutesScientists find that when the area of the brain responsible for understanding the intent of others is disrupted, moral judgment is also affected. Christie Nicholson reports
Chronic Pain Relief
March 21, 2010 13:00 - 2 minutesChronic pain may be due to an overabundance of a protein, which amplifies the pain signal to the brain. A drug that neutralizes this protein may provide the long-awaited relief. Christie Nicholson reports
Humans Want to Share Information
March 15, 2010 11:00 - 2 minutesSpeaking at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Tex., new media scholar Clay Shirky argues that businesses are buckling under the pressure of the digital revolution because of a subtle quirk in human nature. Christie Nicholson reports
Happy People Talk More Seriously
March 06, 2010 18:00 - 3 minutesA recent study analyzed 20,000 conversations and found that happiness strongly correlated with talkative people who went beyond the small talk. Christie Nicholson reports
Why Does Schizophrenia Appear in Young Adults?
February 27, 2010 17:00 - 2 minutesRecent research explores the effects of a schizophrenia risk factor (DISC1) and its influence over the onset of the disease. Christie Nicholson reports
Fighting Crime with Math
February 20, 2010 18:00 - 3 minutesScientists at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science presented a mathematical model to predict criminal behavior and police success. Christie Nicholson reports
Catching the Brain at Work
February 10, 2010 12:00 - 3 minutesScientists found a way to detect the order of activity in two regions of the brain using fMRI. And they found that the brain can register something as highly emotional before it actually processes what that something is. Christie Nicholson reports
Dealing with Super Bowl XLIV Pressure
February 05, 2010 13:30 - 5 minutesSports psychologist Patrick Cohn discusses two types of athletes, and how to deal with pressure in the days before the big game. Christie Nicholson reports
Sex Differences in Jealousy
January 28, 2010 10:00 - 3 minutesRecent research attempts to provide a more nuanced look at the long-held view that men are more jealous of sexual infidelity than emotional infidelity. Christie Nicholson reports
The Talent for Facial Recognition
January 21, 2010 00:00 - 3 minutesRecent research in Current Biology finds that the ability to recognize faces is most likely heritable. Christie Nicholson reports
Making and Keeping Your Goals
January 13, 2010 12:00 - 5 minutesAn interview with David Allen, best-selling author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, on how to make and keep goals. Christie Nicholson reports
No Gender Gap in Math
January 06, 2010 12:00 - 3 minutesA worldwide study of nearly half a million boys and girls found no significant gender gap in math ability. Christie Nicholson reports
Powerful and Bad in 2009
December 31, 2009 12:00 - 3 minutesRecent research finds that a feeling of entitlement to power can inspire hypocrisy. Christie Nicholson reports
Remembering That Person's Name
December 22, 2009 20:00 - 3 minutesRecent research finds that we all have a tough time remembering names as we age. But for those with early Alzheimer's the decline is significant and includes forgetting biographical information, as well. Christie Nicholson reports
Our Bodies, Our Culture
December 16, 2009 00:00How we understand the location of our own body in space is culturally dependent. Christie Nicholson reports
Hockey and Concussions
December 08, 2009 20:00 - 3 minutesResearchers are asking hockey players to give up their brains to study the long-term impact of concussions. Christie Nicholson reports
Fear of Fear Itself
December 01, 2009 15:00 - 3 minutesA recent study links fear of feeling anxious to depression. Christie Nicholson reports
Are Your Siblings Really Your Siblings?
November 24, 2009 18:00 - 4 minutesThis Thanksgiving how can we be certain we're sitting down with our genetically related family? Evolutionary psychology provides some food for thought. Christie Nicholson reports
The Roots of Language
November 17, 2009 00:00 - 2 minutesRecent research with chimps provides support for theories of how language evolved in humans. Christie Nicholson reports
Boost Your Creativity with Eye Movement
November 10, 2009 18:00 - 2 minutesRecent research published in the journal Brain and Cognition finds that people can boost the number and quality of their original ideas when they increase the interaction between the brain's right and left hemispheres. Christie Nicholson reports
Hearing Our Heartbeats
November 03, 2009 15:00 - 3 minutesScientists have recently found that there are two brain pathways involved how we perceive our own thumping hearts. Christie Nicholson reports
A Pretty Face or a Hot Body?
October 27, 2009 11:00 - 3 minutesWhen pursuing a mate for a short-term relationship, are we more interested in the face or the body? How about for a long-term relationship? Christie Nicholson reports
What Our Stuff Says about Us
October 20, 2009 17:00 - 5 minutesPsychologist Sam Gosling from the University of Texas reveals what we can predict about personalities by just looking at their stuff. Christie Nicholson reports
It's Funny Because It's True
October 13, 2009 13:00 - 3 minutesNew research proves that the things we find funny often reveal somewhat hidden beliefs we hold. Christie Nicholson reports
What the Experts Still Don't Know
October 06, 2009 20:00 - 4 minutesTwenty three world-renowned psychologists write about what they still don't understand about themselves
Internet Addiction?
September 29, 2009 13:30 - 3 minutesAs experts organize the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a debate has started on whether to include Internet addiction among our newest afflictions
Is Texting Making Us Bad Spellers?
September 23, 2009 00:00 - 3 minutesA recent study finds SMS texting is not impacting young people's ability to spell. Christie Nicholson reports
Detecting Digitally Altered Video
September 16, 2009 00:00 - 3 minutesA study in Applied Cognitive Science finds that we're likely to believe a doctored video over own memories of an event. Christie Nicholson reports
Where the Desire for Change Resides
September 09, 2009 00:00 - 2 minutesScientists have found an area of the brain that becomes highly active when we finally decide to explore the unknown. Christie Nicholson reports
Predictors of Preschool Depression
August 31, 2009 00:00 - 3 minutesA five-year study followed more than 1,700 children and found that depression in preschoolers is primarily predicted by two factors. Christie Nicholson reports
In Defense of Evolutionary Psychology
August 26, 2009 02:00 - 3 minutesLisa DeBruine of the University of Aberdeen proposes that the value of evolutionary psychology lies in its ability to inspire new questions about human behavior. Christie Nicholson reports
Human-Robot Relationships
August 18, 2009 00:00 - 3 minutesHow will human-robot interaction affect our culture? A psychologist and artificial intelligence researcher share their predictions. Christie Nicholson reports
Answers to the Rorschach Test Revealed
August 02, 2009 11:00 - 3 minutesA recent debate erupted on Wikipedia concerning the public posting of popular interpretations of the Rorschach test. Christie Nicholson reports
Artificial Intelligence Predicts Gambling Behavior
July 21, 2009 11:00 - 2 minutesA simulated neural network is able to predict the bets and wins/losses of gamblers. Christie Nicholson reports
Questioning Evolutionary Psychology
July 17, 2009 18:00 - 3 minutesRecently, the doubts and questions plaguing the theory of evolutionary psychology have boiled up to the mainstream press. Christie Nicholson reports
Severe Weather Psychology, Part 2
July 08, 2009 00:00 - 3 minutesA psychology PhD student from the University of Sheffield shares her initial observations on how well local people understand the behavior of tornadoes. Christie Nicholson reports
Severe Weather Psychology, Part 1
July 07, 2009 00:00 - 5 minutesJacqui Wilmshurst, a PhD psychology student at the University of Sheffield, is spending summer in the field studying human reactions to severe weather and tornadoes. In this special longer-than-usual episode, she shares her initial findings. Christie Nicholson reports