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There are some things that just feel like they’re true. For example, the idea that people who are gifted musicians are also good at learning math, or ...

We have a limited number of ways to experience the world psychologically, but many ways to interpret that experience. In that interpretation, the word...

A listener wrote in: “Please take a moment to address why September 11, 2001, is still a cultural touchstone, but February 26, 1993, was so easily for...

When we live through a profound and historic event we have a different understanding of it than if we just read about it. That has a complex and inter...

As humans, we don’t come ready to interact with the world when we are born. We have to learn a language, we have to learn how to roll over, to walk, t...

Why do we continue to believe in ideas that sound scientific long after they have been scientifically proven to be incorrect? That is the question tha...

Lila Gleitman was an American professor of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. who passed on August 8, 2021, at the age of  ...

We make sense of things by creating stories about them; our brains want to connect the dots. But it turns out that life has its own sequence that some...

Mentorships can be helpful if they are set up well. Yet, as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke point out in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, so of...

There are a lot of resources and people who offer advice every day, but not all advice is equal. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Ma...

We’ve all been through a lot during the COVID 19 pandemic, and some of us are deciding to use it as an opportunity to take a leap into the unknown. I...

We express a lot with our gestures, but as Dr. Art Markman, and Dr. Bob Duke discuss in this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, there is a lot more tha...

Almost every individual on this planet has been impacted by the COVID 19 pandemic, and with the vaccines for COVID now available many of us are seeing...

Social psychologist Edward Diener, nicknamed Dr. Happiness and known for his pioneering research into what defined contentment, died on April 27 at hi...

To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, there are the known knowns, the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns; and it’s in the latter that the most cause fo...

It can be enjoyable, even exciting, and inspiring to watch TED Talks or read self-help books, or even listen to this show. But the truth is, doing the...

What is it about online shopping that makes us feel so good, even when we don’t actually purchase anything? In this edition of  Two Guys on Your Head,...

It’s tough to eliminate bias and noise from any decision we make, so how do we deal with all the noise and bias in our life? As Dr. Art Markman and Dr...

There is a lot of talk in our society today about eliminating bias from decision making, but it turns out that even if you could do that there are thi...

We may think when we are oohing and aahing at little babies that we are just having fun, but they’re actually learning a lot about language and commun...

The idea that money doesn’t make you happy is easy to get behind if you have it, but if you don’t it’s a hard one to buy into (pun intended). Yet the ...

Why is it hard to have just one of those delicious slices of pound cake over the holidays? It turns out it has less to do with the creamy butter and m...

We may think that being able to pay attention to two or more things at the same time is a character trait. We say, “so and so is just scatterbrained a...

There is an observation in psychology that looks at how people behave when they have not lived up to the expectations they set for themselves; the “Wh...

We may underestimate the role that our emotions of an event play in our memory of that event. But it turns out there are ways to manipulate those memo...

We’ve all heard of it, but what is it? On this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the psychology of the mid...

We may use the saying, “it’s a slippery slope,” without knowing the full psychological dimensions of it. That’s why in this edition of Two Guys on You...

You’ve heard the saying, “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.” But does that literally mean you have to put yourself in someone’s position in order t...

From a Views and Brews recorded live at the Cactus Cafe in 2019, KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks with Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke about the psycholog...

It can be hard to talk with kids about tough things; a death or sickness in the family, the loss of a job, mental illness, the list goes on. But as Dr...