Episode guide
PODCAST SERIES · 50 GUIDES
Psychtoons
PsychToons uses animated explanations to explore psychology, behavior, identity, and personal development.
Episode guide
Psychology of Intelligence: How to Become Smarter Than 99% of People
In this video, we break down the three traps that stop most people from getting smarter after school: the verdict, the treadmill, and the easy chair. We look at why Adrian Owen's massive brain training experiment found people mostly got better at the games themselves, why Melvin Kohn and Carmi Schooler found that demanding jobs made men's thinking more flexible over a decade, and why Denise Park's Synapse Project…Episode guide
Psychology of Dopamine (and How to Quickly Escape a Dopamine Hole)
In this video, we break down what the research says is really happening. The flat, restless feeling after hours of scrolling has less to do with an empty tank than with a stretched ruler. Your brain judges every reward against the ones that came just before it.Episode guide
Psychology of Sleep: How to Sleep Less Hours and Wake up Fresh
In this video, we break down the psychology of sleep and why more time in bed can leave you more tired. The amount of sleep your body needs is close to fixed, while the time you spend lying awake is wide open. Cut that second number and the sleep you keep gets deeper, steadier, and far easier to wake up from.Episode guide
Psychology of Mechanical Intelligence (Why Some People Can Fix Anything)
In this video, we step inside the mind of someone who can fix anything. Psychologists call it mechanical intelligence, and it has far more to do with the mind than the hands. We start with Edward Thorndike's forgotten third kind of intelligence and Kenneth Craik's idea that the mind carries a small working model of the world.Episode guide
Psychology of Social Intelligence: How to Read Anyone Instantly
In this video, we break down the psychology of social intelligence and why reading people is harder, and more learnable, than it looks. We start with Edward Thorndike, who named social intelligence in 1920, and David Funder's Realistic Accuracy Model, which shows that an accurate read is a chain of four links that can snap at any point. Then we walk through the three misreads almost everyone makes.COMPLETE ARCHIVE
All Guides
Complete chronological list, newest first.
50 total guidesBack to Top