The Positive Pod: Your Weekly Fifteen Minutes of Positivity
The Positive Pod: Your Weekly Fifteen Minutes of Positivity
Latest Episodes
Well Nudged is Well Lived: Using Nudge Theory to Live our Best Life (and Prevent Being Duped!)
Why are we so vulnerable to misinformation?How do we make better choices?Do we react to the immediacy of information or the quality of that information?Turns out, immediacy carries the day. Worse yet, if that misin...
Autonomy: How Helping Others Helps Us
How do we help ourselves to enhance our overall sense of effectiveness and autonomy? What if I told you that there is data that supports the idea that helping others helps us to do just that? In this episode, we will take a deeper d...
About the Show and a Preview of Season Two!
Just a brief episode on how and why I developed the Positive Pod, and a preview of Season Two! Check it out!
Eudaimonia What?! What is Well Being, Anyway?
The ancient Greeks were good for a lot of things. Who knew that they had coined a term for living our best and most fulfilled life?! That whacky Aristotle and is crazy ideas! Unfortunately, our modern psychological science has...
How We Really Make Decisions: Loss Aversion and How to Make Better Choices
Ever wonder why people don't just do what is best for them? Ever wonder why you don't? Turns out, human beings have a tendency towards something called Loss Aversion in decision making. Yep. You read that right! Th...