Thoughts on Record: Podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Comments or feedback? Send us a text! Misophonia is relatively common but not often discussed psychological experience in which an individual has an exaggerated (and sometimes extreme) emotional response (ranging from irritability to anger) to the bodily sounds of others.  Common triggers include sounds related to eating and breathing.  In this episode OICBT psychologist Dr. Mandisa Peterson outli...

Comments or feedback? Send us a text! For many people, the term “psychedelics” conjures up images of hippies tripping through the Summer of Love, Timothy Leary, strange and mystical spiritual experiences, street drugs with a high likelihood of generating “insanity” and maybe even a Pink Floyd concert.  While psychedelics are certainly powerful compounds that must be approached with a high degree o...

Comments or feedback? Send us a text! When meeting somebody for the first time, the presence of an accent is one of the first things that we notice.  Accent discrimination is form of bias in which we make judgments around a person based on features of their accent.  Importantly, accent bias can lead to both negative and positive assumptions about a person’s intelligence, social status, education l...

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