Current Directions in Psychological Science Podcast

Chronic pain and substance use disorders (SUDs) are common and debilitating, and they often persist over the longer term. Each represents a significant health problem: It’s estimated that a substantial proportion of the adult population has chronic pain or an SUD, and their co-occurrence is increasing. Research is unraveling the mechanisms of chronic pain and substance use, as well as their co-occ...

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, professor at Stanford University, recentely wrote about key considerations regarding the implementation of mental-health treatments. These include recent findings regarding treatment fidelity, adaptation of treatments, clinical outcomes, and training therapists to provide evidence-based therapies as they were designed to be delivered, ensuring they have the skills and abil...

Scientists can now comprehensively scan the genome, testing variation across millions of genetic markers. Large consortia of scientists are analyzing data from millions of individuals. Multivariate methods enable scientists to identify genes involved in “normal” processes rather than specific disorders or traits. These advances can have a widespread effect on medicine and society. However, such ra...

By definition, personality traits are relatively stable, but recent research has begun to investigate whether individuals can intentionally change their personalities. One intervention that might lead to personality change relies on the use of digital applications to coach people on achieving their desired personality change. Allemand and Flückiger provided a rationale for nonclinical personality-...

Studying online behavior can further understanding of misinformation and political psychology. Mosleh and colleagues discuseds the strengths, weaknesses, and ethical constraints of two approaches to studying online behavior: hybrid lab-field experiments and field experiments. In hybrid lab-field studies, researchers can control and randomize participants’ exposure to social-media content in the la...

Warlaumont and colleagues reviewed recent research about how infants’ vocal productions and auditory experiences are organized over a day, with implications for development. Everyday vocalizations appear to be clustered hierarchically in time (e.g., there is more difference in vocalization quantity from one hour to the next hour than from one 5-min interval to the next). Vocalizations also appear...

Despite increased requirements and encouragements to track what we do and how we do it in different areas of our lives, from job performance to sleep and diet, evidence suggests that constant tracking might not help that much with health and well-being and instead might have dire social consequences. Johnson uses human intelligence, which has been the object of efforts to track for more than 100 y...

According to the active-passive model, social networking sites (SNSs) can increase well-being when used actively to interact with others but can decrease well-being when their content is passively consumed. However, this distinction might not fully capture the sites’ nuanced effects on well-being. Verduyn and colleagues propose the extended active-passive model of SNS use, which organizes active u...

Developing the understanding of ADHD heterogeneity appears promising when researchers consider dimensions of trait affectivity. These dimensions can include surgency (i.e., high levels of sociability, activity, and positive emotion) and negative affectivity; their constituent lower-order traits, such as irritability; and the integrative function of self-regulation. Several lines of investigation f...

Dr. Teresa Treat, Professor of Psychology at University of Iowa, interviews David Barlow, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry at Boston University, and Founder of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders.  Interviewed on February 10, 2022.

Dr. Teresa Treat, Professor of Psychology at University of Iowa, interviews Bruce Cuthbert, Head of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Unit at the United States National Institute of Mental Health.  Interviewed on February 8, 2022.

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal  Current Directions in Psychological Science  interviews Sheri Berenbaum, Professor of Psychology and Pediatrics at Penn State University. Interviewed on August 6, 2021

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal  Current Directions in Psychological Science  interviews Vincent Reid, Professor of Psychology and Head of School at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.  Interviewed on August 2, 2021

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal  Current Directions in Psychological Science  interviews Leor Zmirgrod, Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge in England.  Interviewed on August 2, 2021

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal  Current Directions in Psychological Science  interviews Andrew Whiten, Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, Interviewed on August 2, 2021

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal  Current Directions in Psychological Science  interviews Fabrizio Benedetti, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Turin Medical School in Turin, Italy, and Director of Medicine and Physiology of Hypoxia at the Plateau Rosà Laboratories in Plateau Rozeau in Switzerla...

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science  interviews Azim Shariff, associate professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia The interview was held on July 26, 2021.

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Marlise Hofer, postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Victoria. The interview was held on February 17, 2021.

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Matthew Hornsey, professor of management in the school of business at the University of Queensland. The interview was held on February 3, 2021.    

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Crystal Hall professor at the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at University of Washington. The interview was held on February 3, 2021.

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Joshua Grubbs, professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University. The interview was held February 1, 2021. 

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Bethany Rittle-Johnson, Professor and Chair of Psychology & Human Development at Vanderbilt University. The interview was held on January 30, 2021. 

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Maykel Verkuyten, Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Interviewed 10 April 2020. 

Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS Journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Greg Wadley, senior lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Interved 8 April 2020. 

Robert Goldstone interviews Sam Gershman, Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard University Interviewed on the 7th of April 2020