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Alvin Irby: Accidents Happen

September 20, 2019

When his students keep having “accidents" during nap time, kindergarten teacher Alvin Irby investigates.

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In Psychology Tags Alvin Irby, comedy, teacher, education, psychology, Season 9

Ralph Bouquet: Fear That Stays with Me

February 1, 2019

Ralph Bouquet goes off script during a psychology research study with uncomfortable and revealing consequences.

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In Social Sciences, Psychology Tags Ralph Bouquet, police, psychology, police shootings, Black lives matter, Black in STEM, study participant, Season 9, race

Devine Joyce: Grieving for Someone I Didn't Even Know

December 28, 2018

While working as a research assistant on a traumatic brain injury study, Devine Joyce struggles with feelings of depression, but an experience with a patient changes her outlook.

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In Neuroscience Tags Devine Joyce, grief, brain injury, hospital, brain, psychology, Season 8

Monica O’Neal: What Goodbye Is Supposed to Feel Like

December 14, 2018

Psychologist Monica O’Neal is an expert in relationships — but in her personal life, she finds herself struggling when it comes to saying goodbye.

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In Psychology Tags Monica O’Neal, psychology, relationships, breakup, Season 8

Jacqueline Trumbull: Psychological Skydiving

December 14, 2018

Jacqueline Trumbull is preparing for a career in research psychology when she gets a call from a casting agent for The Bachelor.

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In Psychiatry, Social Sciences, Psychology Tags Jacqueline Trumbull, TV, reality TV, The Bachelor, psychiatry, psychology, graduate school, relationships, love, Season 8

Amber Hewitt: My Time to Take Up the Torch

March 30, 2018

Three years into a great faculty position, psychologist Amber Hewitt realizes her passion lies elsewhere.

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In Psychology Tags Amber Hewitt, psychology, career, academia

Scott Barry Kaufman: Redefining Intelligence

December 22, 2017

As a child, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman is told by a school psychologist that he's doomed by a low IQ score.

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In Psychology, Social Sciences Tags school, Scott Barry Kaufman, psychology, education, IQ

Amy Brown: Academic Knowledge Vs. Real Life

June 2, 2017

Psychologist Amy Brown researches maternal and infant health, but when she has a child of her own, she’s confronted with the reality behind the research.

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In Psychology, Social Sciences Tags Amy Brown, psychology, maternal health, infant health, early childhood

Heather Cucolo: Representing Sex Offenders

February 24, 2017

Attorney Heather Cucolo must navigate the complicated psychology surrounding her sex-offender clients.

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In Psychology Tags Heather Cucolo, criminology, psychology, law, sexual assault, Springer Nature

Bri Riggio: Researching My Eating Disorder

February 3, 2017

As a teenager, Bri Riggio struggles to understand her eating disorder and connect with her psychologist father.

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In Psychology, Health and Medicine Tags Bri Riggio, eating disorder, mental health, psychology, anorexia

Jess Thoms: Biscuits and Hedgehogs

January 13, 2017

Comedian Jess Thom learns the best way to explain her Tourette's to someone new.

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In Psychology Tags Jess Thoms, Neuroatypical, psychology, Tourette's syndrome

Ali Mattu: Speechless

January 6, 2017

As a child, psychologist Ali Mattu suffers from paralyzing social anxiety.

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Tags Ali Mattu, psychology, anxiety, social anxiety, exposure therapy, childhood, school, phobia

Ali Mattu: My Brother the Trekkie

January 8, 2016

Psychologist Ali Mattu didn't know what he wanted to be as a kid, but his older brother helped him find inspiration in Star Trek.

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In Psychology Tags Ali Mattu, psychology, anxiety, childhood

Amy Cuddy: Passing As Myself

April 2, 2014

After a terrible head injury, Amy Cuddy wakes up in the hospital to find she's a different person.

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Tags Amy Cuddy, season 4, injury, brain injury, danger, neuroscience, brain, psychology

Pete Etchells: The next level

December 1, 2013

Psychologist Pete Etchells' father inspired him -- to hate neurons.

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Tags Pete Etchells, psychology, season 3, neurons, neuroscience

Kimberly Rae Miller: Let's fix dad

July 21, 2013

Kimberly Rae Miller's family had a secret: her dad was a hoarder. But when she begins digging into the research on hoarding, she finds it's not nearly as simple to fix as she'd hoped.

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Tags Kimberly Rae Miller, psychology, season 3, hoarding, parents

Esther Perel: Science & sexuality

May 26, 2013

Esther Perel's career gets an unexpected boost from the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal.

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Tags Esther Perel, season 3, psychology, sex, love, relationships

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