PsychCrunch

This episode explores the replication crisis in psychology through the case of power posing research, featuring an interview with researcher Brian Earp about how to evaluate which psychological findings are trustworthy.

This episode explores the psychological challenges of children starting school, featuring an interview with Professor Claire Hughes about her research on school readiness and family dynamics.

This episode explores the concept of 'nothing about us without us' in psychological research, focusing on including neurodiverse voices, particularly through an interview with Dr.

This episode features a conversation with Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield about her research on communicating difficult topics like cancer diagnoses with patients.

This episode explores the psychological phenomenon of the 'felt presence,' where people sense an unseen entity nearby, featuring an interview with Dr.

This episode explores scientific research on cat behavior and cognition, featuring expert insights on understanding feline psychology and improving human-cat relationships.

This episode explores the psychological importance of play in child development, featuring expert insights on how imaginative play facilitates learning and its impact during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This episode explores the psychology of creativity, challenging the notion that it's an innate ability by presenting it as a skill that can be developed through practice, featuring an interview with expert James C.

This episode explores cognitive reappraisal techniques to make running less painful and more enjoyable, featuring an interview with cognitive scientist Dr.

This episode explores psychological research on how factors like food presentation affect taste perception and enjoyment, featuring an interview with Professor Deborah Zellner.

This episode explores the scientific evidence behind mindfulness meditation, questioning whether it lives up to its popular claims as a cure-all for mental health issues.

This episode explores the psychology behind why people share false information online, distinguishing between misinformation and disinformation, and discusses how to promote reliable information.

This episode explores the psychology and neuroscience behind humor, examining how incongruity and unexpectedness trigger laughter through insights from researchers and examples like tickling and puns.

This episode explores the scientific understanding of dreams and nightmares through an interview with psychology professor Mark Blagrove, discussing theories about why we dream and their connection to waking life.

This episode explores the psychological and neuroscientific aspects of hypnagogia (the transition between wakefulness and sleep) and maladaptive daydreaming, featuring insights from a psychology researcher.

This episode explores how unconventional hobbies like climbing therapy and cold water swimming are being studied and used as psychological interventions for conditions such as depression.

This episode explores the psychological aspects of uncertainty through an interview with author Maggie Jackson, discussing her research on how we can embrace uncertainty in a complex world.

This episode features an interview with psychologist Christian Jarrett about his new book exploring the science of personality change and whether our personalities are fixed or malleable.

This episode examines how psychological research's overreliance on Western participants and white editors perpetuates racial biases and explores ways to make studies more representative and anti-racist.

This episode explores how psychology influences pain perception, featuring an interview with Dr.

This episode explores the psychological debate around screen time, featuring an interview with researcher Dr.

This episode explores the psychology of procrastination, distinguishing it from other forms of delay and featuring insights from experts on why people avoid important tasks despite knowing better.

This episode of Psych Crunch features an interview with psychologist Ruth Billick about her research on how punctuation and emoticons affect the interpretation of sarcasm in written communication like emails and texts.

This episode explores how psychology and music can aid language learning, featuring research on anxiety reduction and brain processing differences.

This episode explores practical psychology research on dating and attractiveness, focusing on how color choices like red can influence perceptions on dates.

A live recorded conversation at Latitude Festival where Professor Greta De Fata discusses child food poverty, its causes, solutions, and how her personal experiences with poverty have influenced her work.

This episode explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, including surprising links between the virus and mental health conditions, based on research from a global study.

This episode explores how psychology can help people learn more effectively by debunking common myths about learning, starting with the misconception of teaching to preferred learning styles.

This episode explores insomnia from a psychological perspective, examining how our interpretation of sleep affects our well-being and featuring insights from Professor Kenny Litchstein on diagnosing and measuring sleep-related daytime impairment.

This episode explores the challenges of making friends as an adult, discusses the psychological and health impacts of loneliness, and features an interview with Dr.

This episode explores the psychological and neurological aspects of grief, featuring expert insights on how the brain processes loss and strategies for coping with bereavement.

This episode explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of human connection, examining whether technology like video chats can effectively replace in-person interactions and discussing the psychological impacts of isolation.

This episode explores how psychological factors like mindset, stress perception, and mental training techniques can significantly impact athletic performance, featuring research on challenge vs threat responses and cardiovascular reactivity.

This episode explores the psychology behind why people, including logical scientists, hold onto superstitious beliefs and rituals despite knowing they have no real effect.

This episode explores the need for a humility revolution in psychology, addressing ongoing crises like replication and methodology issues through expert manifestos.

This episode explores the psychological impact of Huntington's disease, featuring an interview with an expert recorded before a recent gene editing breakthrough that may not be widely accessible.

PsychCrunch examines why people seek recreational fear through horror films, video games, books, true-crime documentaries, and haunted houses.

PsychCrunch’s “Psychology on the Menu” features Dr.

PsychCrunch host Ella Rhodes interviews social psychologist and sexologist Liam Wignall and clinical psychologist Kate Marks about kink, BDSM, community, consent, stigma, and therapeutic interpretations.

PsychCrunch host Ginny Smith interviews Kelly Jakubowski, Peter Janata, and Michael Scullin about why familiar, upbeat songs repeat involuntarily in people’s minds.

PsychCrunch's Episode 16 examines aphantasia, the absence of voluntary visual imagery, through Ella Rhodes's experiences and interviews with Zoe Pounder and Adam Zeman.

This episode explores how psychology and research can improve teamwork by addressing challenges like personality clashes and leveraging concepts like meta-knowledge to enhance collaboration.

This festive episode of Psych Crunch explores how psychology research can help navigate gift giving, including insights on strengthening social ties and the surprising benefits of giving gifts that reflect the giver rather than the recipient.

In this bonus episode, host Christian Jarrett debates with psychologist John Sutton about whether Michael Jackson is the greatest entertainer of all time, exploring themes of subjectivity, evidence, and psychological insights into winning arguments.

This episode of PsychCrunch explores how psychological research can help win arguments, from personal debates to serious conflicts like the Israeli-Palestinian issue, featuring insights from cognitive scientist Dr.

This episode of PsychCrunch explores the science of habits, with host Christian Jarrett sharing his personal struggle with evening chocolate and interviewing Dr.