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Moving is never easy, but at least you have deadlines for when you need to be out of one place and into another. When it comes to unpacking, it’s a di...

For many, fall marks the beginning of a new school year, which can mean a time to reinvent yourself. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art...

Emotions are sometimes good to listen to when you’re trying to make a decision, but sometimes they’re not so good. However, as Dr. Art Markman and Dr....

We often read engaging or witty quotes and consider their content or meaning, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explore in this episode of Two G...

It’s August, which means it’s the anniversary of the first airing of Two Guys on Your Head on KUT Austin. And even though we don’t need an excuse to p...

Oftentimes, we praise perfect execution over Samuel Beckett’s mantra, ​“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Even so, the idea of practicing a skill, ...

Becoming an expert in any area takes a lot of time, work, and navigation; teaching our expertise to someone else takes a different and unique set of s...

Every generation has a different starting point when it comes to knowledge, and it can be a challenge to decipher what we can take for granted regardi...

With so many opportunities for compromise, not only in our political sphere but also in our daily lives, we might wonder why teaching strategies for t...

We live in an era of deep division, and it’s hard for people with opposing views to even talk to each other. So, how can we begin to move toward compr...

Happiness is important when it comes to our working conditions, but it’s not the only factor to consider. As Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk abo...

When you work in an open floor plan it’s hard to concentrate as you’re easily distracted, and you feel like a pest, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob...

Creating open floor plans for workspaces may be less expensive, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this episode of Two Guys on Your...

Performing social norms has benefits, however, when you have to perform all the time just to fit in, it can be stressful and exhausting. In this episo...

Many of us go through life blissfully unaware of how and why we are performing, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss in this episode of Two...

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in a debate, even with ourselves, that it doesn’t occur to us to change the frame of the conversation. As Dr. Art Markm...

It’s sometimes difficult to justify doing an activity that isn’t related to work or achieving a specific goal, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke...

It can be difficult to understand how to navigate behavior when there is no direct cause and effect between what you’re doing and the impact you want ...

Time is important, especially when it comes to the brain. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, and Dr. Bob Duke, talk about how ...

There’s a lot going on below the surface when it comes to what we reveal and conceal. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, and D...

Some of our behaviors tend to get in the way of goals we would like to achieve or even the lives we want to live, but changing our behavior can be mor...

In April, we celebrate National Poetry Month, and in honor of this beautiful commemoration, we wanted to revisit our show on writer’s block! That phra...

A classic study found that individuals eat less soup when they have a visual cue of how much they have eaten, thus demonstrating the power of external...

Nobel laureate and behavioral psychologist Daniel Kahneman passed away on March 27th, 2024, at the age of 90. Kahneman was not only a giant in the fie...

Building in hedges to a sentence is a natural thing most of us do without thinking too much about it, but when we can’t form a sentence without “reall...

Dr. Art Markman explains how he advises organizational leaders about critiquing behavior. The post Bonus: Art’s XYZ Approach to Behavior Change appea...

Many psychological elements go into the idea of changing or remaking oneself, so Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, and Dr. Bob Duke decided to r...

Many psychological elements go into the idea of changing or remaking oneself, so Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, and Dr. Bob Duke decided to r...

Many psychological elements go into the idea of changing or remaking oneself, so Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, and Dr. Bob Duke decided to r...

There is a lot of psychology that goes into how, when, and why we part with our money, and to be sure marketers know this very well. In this episode o...