The Human Behavior Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Today we are talking about some situations that have gone catastrophically wrong all because someone took the “F That Guy” approach. Meaning, rather than taking a second and exercising a little patience to determine the best course of action, they chose to ignore the information that was available and unnecessarily escalated the situation. In the episode we discuss things like heu...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are joined by fitness and wellness expert Dr. Darian Parker to talk about his expertise in behavior modification. Dr. Parker's experience in the fitness world parallels many of the experiences that Greg and I often discuss on the show. During the episode we touch on a number of topics including accountability, saying things you don’t really mean, and having your own...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are talking about liability, responsibility, and of course, training! We start the conversation with a story of a police officer who sued his own agency, and several other parties, in an attempt to hold them liable for the outcome of a catastrophic and nearly deadly situation. We use this case as a starting point for a larger discussion on how litigation is the only way t...

Send us Fan Mail We recently sat down with Kevin Nahai to talk about human behavior in the context of the choices we make. Kevin is a speaker, writer, and mentor to young men and women across the globe on a number of emotional and psychological issues.  We were originally introduced to Kevin by our mutual friend Reena Watts after we went on her podcast called Better Call Daddy. The reason that Ree...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are talking about how being "too close” or “emotionally involved” in an issue can cloud our judgement and affect our reasoning.  We talk about how Heuristics affect the way we analyze a situation and how things like adaptation and change blindness cause us to miss the slow subtle changes in our environment.  Please don’t forget to follow us on social media, you can f...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are discussing a case from Illinois where a young man accidentally beat his mother to death with a baseball bat, thinking that she was an intruder. There were a lot of contributing factors to this case that we discuss in the episode and we also spend a great deal of time talking about the fact that he is not serving any jail time for this crime. You can check the links be...

Send us Fan Mail Today, Greg and I are taking two seemingly unrelated stories and explaining how the mental process that the individuals chose to take were nearly identical, but with two very different decisions that led to two very different outcomes.  We compared a recent shooting in Texas where a man killed his ex-wife, her boyfriend and then himself to the olympic gymnast Simone Biles who chos...

Send us Fan Mail Today, Greg and Brian are discussing the concept of “you knew or should have known” in the context of several recent high profile news stories where employees quit their jobs in protest. In the episode they talk about how all people have a natural tendency to want our say rather than our way and how that plays into the concept of entitlement versus enlightenment.  Please don’t for...

Send us Fan Mail Today we  are expanding on a previous episode titled “you never know” where we talked about how it’s hard to determine what a random person you bump into on the street might be going through. In today’s episode we talk about the people who are in your “orbit” and the effect that you have on them and the effect that they have on you. Please don’t forget to follow us on social media...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are joined by one of our long time listeners of the show, Gilbert Tucker. Gilbert is a firefighter in a rural area outside of Denver and we asked him to come on the show and share a couple of stories where he and some of his co-workers nearly walked into a catastrophic event.  During the episode we talk about things like unconscious awareness, how your memory works during...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are talking about a concept Brian  likes to call “you never know,” which a simple way to look at someone’s behavior and NOT draw an unreasonable conclusion about what their intent is or the type of person that they are.  This concept applies to both sides of the coin as we say on the show, meaning you don’t know whether the person you accidentally spilled coffee on is alr...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are talking about the myths and realities of body language. Although body language, or “Kinesics” as we call it, is something that we teach in our courses it is not something that should be used on its own. Meaning, just like any other human behavior observation, it all depends on the context! In the episode we talk about some of the “parlor tricks” that we see people tea...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are joined by world renowned addiction expert Dr Robb Kelly. Dr Kelly holds multiple Phd’s, has been working with addicts for over 20 years and is a recovered alcoholic himself. Dr Kelly has been able to combine his own personal experiences with his academic background to deliver a unique approach to addiction which has led to people referring to him as the “Gordon Ramsey...

Send us Fan Mail Today, Greg and Brian are talking about Air Rage and the increase in violent incidents on airplanes and in the terminals of a number of U.S. airports. Greg and Brian both share a few stories of some interesting encounters they've had during their travels and they talk about the nature of human anger in flight to include many of the contributing factors that lead to theses inc...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are joined by social psychologist Dr. Richard Nisbett to discuss his latest book called “Thinking: A Memoir.” Dr Nisbett has spent his career researching things like how people reason, how people should reason, why errors in reasoning occur, how much you can improve reasoning, what kinds of problems are best solved by the conscious mind and what kinds by the unconscious m...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are joined by one of the most interesting people we have ever had on the show, Patrick Byrne. Patrick is a billionaire former CEO of Overstock.com, he’s a philosopher, and he’s also the author of the book “The Deep Rig” which tells the story of his ongoing investigation into the 2020 Presidential election voting irregularities.  A few months ago we spent some time with Pa...

Send us Fan Mail Here's a quick update on the show. Thank you for being such a loyal listener, don't forget to follow us on social media! Contact Links Follow along when we go live: https://www.facebook.com/BrianM12345 Follow us on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/HBPRA/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arcadia_cognerati/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1S7E4hgSfLVWi4jGl...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve been following along with the last few episodes of this podcast you know that we’ve been discussing law enforcement reform as well as the different factors, relationships, and effects that contribute to the high-profile use of force incidents that have occurred.  So far we’ve addressed how to define the problem and how to build a solution, so today we are talking about w...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode we are continuing our discussion from the previous two episodes where we talked about the contributing factors that lead to many of the high profile police use of force incidents that occur. In this episode we discuss how to build a solution that that accounts for many of the contributing factors. We center the discussion around Policy, Training, and Support, bu...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is based on the conversation that Greg and I had last week on the episode titled Contributing Factors where we talked about many of the sociological, psychological, and physiological factors that come into play during all of the high profile police use of force cases that you see every night on the news.   Due to the significant amount of positive feedback we recei...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode we are talking about a few of the recent high profile police shootings that have occurred and we address the issues that WE think need to be discussed. This is not some tactical breakdown nor is it a philosophical discussion on what policing is and should be. This podcast is about contributing factors.  In our discussion we talk about many of the contributing fa...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode we are discussing legal precedent and your 1st Amendment rights. We are specifically discussing a case out of Pennsylvania where a high school student made a post on social media that she subsequently got into trouble for.  We bring up a number of historical examples where the supreme court has ruled on cases having to do with free speech rights both inside of s...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode we are explaining the process of “ profiling an anomaly .”  We start by discussing what profiling really means, and then talk about why people often get it wrong. Throughout the conversation we get into a number of areas including: temporary breaks with hope, reality, and perspective; operationalizing information, the statistics of extreme behavior, intent vs mo...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode woe are talking about the Flight, Fight, or Freeze response in humans but we’re taking it from the perspective of how to identify someone who is exhibiting those physiological responses. We discuss a number of cases including the recent shooting in Boulder as well as the attacks in Atlanta and we talk about what it means when someone has a “break with reality.”...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode we are joined by Steven, who is one of our listeners that wrote in to us a few weeks back. Steven is currently serving in law enforcement and he reached out with some questions regarding the previous episode we did on John Boyd’s OODA Loop and how to apply that to training and practical decision making.  We get into a number of areas in the episode and Greg and...