neuroaesthetics, psychology of color, and why you should buy some plants
Research:
Neuroaesthetics:
https://www.marcus-pearce.com/assets/papers/NadalPearceBrainAndCognition2011.pdf
“The Day that Death Fell in Love with Life” by Sergo Zagarik
Meta commercial with the banana:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=631147365944014
Art and sensory regions of the brain:
Default mode network:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00066/full
Healthcare and medicine:
https://www.healthdesign.org/knowledge-repository/view-through-window-may-influence-recovery-surgery
Mental health:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0101035
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5004743/
BBC study on art and EEG waves:
Architecture and interior design:
https://www.cogneurosociety.org/buildings-beauty-and-the-brain-qa-with-anjan-chatterjee/
A Space for Being and prototypical hospital room:
https://reddymade.design/projects/a-space-for-being/
https://player.vimeo.com/video/775822919
Product and design technology:
Fashion:
https://www.granthaalayahpublication.org/journals/index.php/granthaalayah/article/view/3869/3844
Marketing and advertising:
Education and learning:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1902650116
Cornell note-taking:
Social media:
https://communicatto.com/blog/neuroaesthetics-and-social-media-101/
Psychology of color:
https://www.colorpsychology.org/
https://www.jenreviews.com/color-meaning/
Pink prison experiment:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90243505/the-surprisingly-dark-history-of-the-color-pink
stockholm syndrome, midlife crisis, and why we believe psychological myths
Research:
Stockholm bank robbery:
https://www.history.com/articles/stockholm-syndrome
Patty Hearst:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/September-18/patty-hearst-captured
Mary McElroy and Natascha Kampusch:
https://the-line-up.com/stockholm-syndrome
Research on Stockholm Syndrome:
https://www.journalijar.com/uploads/2015/11/309_IJAR-7677.pdf
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Placing+the+Stockholm+Syndrome+in+perspective.-a055343321
https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/terrorism2ed/chpt/stockholm-syndrome#_
Trauma bonding:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1089/vio.2017.0076?cf-mal-redirected=true&
Appeasement:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008066.2022.2161038#d1e223
Midlife crisis research:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ecca.12452
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4286887/
Why we believe in misinformation:
https://scispace.com/papers/the-psychological-drivers-of-misinformation-belief-and-its-2x2d8re6
self-abandonment, self-esteem, and boundaries
Research:
Self-abandonment symptoms:
https://iebehavioralgroup.com/self-abandonment-signs-and-treatment/
Development of self-abandonment:
https://www.catharticspacecounseling.com/blog/childhood-trauma-self-abandonment-anxiety
62-page workbook on boundaries:
Downloadable CBT workbook. (this is the one I referenced at the end of the podcast):
https://cogbtherapy.com/free-online-cbt-workbook
2024 crime statistics:
Self-esteem exercises are exercises I’ve used/developed in my therapy practice.
dark humor, swearing, and their relationship to intellect
Research:
Why we use humor and dark humor
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-60859-9_6.pdf
Four types of humor:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656602005342
Humor Styles Questionnaire:
Dark triad study:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886924000230
The positives of self-defeating humor:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1591&context=psy-research
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886920300258
How is swearing used in humor and who uses profanity more?
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-03762-001
Why swearing is used:
https://www.journalijdr.com/sites/default/files/issue-pdf/15695.pdf
Info on IQ testing:
https://www.mentalhealth.com/library/wechsler-adult-intelligence-scale-psychological-testing
What the research says about those who swear more:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S038800011400151X
https://journal.unj.ac.id/unj/index.php/ijlecr/article/view/60899
Swearing and IQ:
Dark humor and intelligence:
Phineas Gage, brain damage, and what organ transplants teach us about personality and the brain
Phineas Gage:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7735047/ https://biaaz.org/brain-waves/the-strange-case-of-phineas-gage/
Prefrontal cortex:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2738354/
Organ transplant cases:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799207/m2/1/high_res_d/vol20-no3-191.pdf
Personality:
https://nobaproject.com/modules/personality-traits
https://blogassets.leverageedu.com/media/uploads/2022/11/22151856/Determinants-of-Personality.pdf
Hereditary traits and parts of the brain:
The heart’s nervous system:
2024 research on personality changes and organ transplants:
super creepy robots, cheating students, and why we do stupid things
Research:
The Uncanny Valley:
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1166&context=osmosis
Masahiro Mori’s original article on the Uncanny Valley (contains original Uncanny Valley diagram):
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-uncanny-valley
Uncanny Valley diagram used in podcast (I made one edit):
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Uncanny-valley-based-on-M-Mori-2_fig3_271525235
Traits that predict sensitivity to the uncanny valley:
Why do students cheat?
https://theconversation.com/why-do-students-cheat-listen-to-this-deans-words-40295#:~:text=According%20to%20Chris%20Loschiavo%2C%20Associate%20Dean%20and,their%20own%20thoughts**%20*%20**Crying%20for%20help**
Perceived peer cheating effect:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1747938X22000240
Ingroups and outgroups:
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/social-sciences-and-humanities/ingroups-and-outgroups
Cognitive dissonance theory:
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-cognitive-dissonance-2795012
selfishness is good for you, selflessness is good for others, but self-care is good for everyone
Research:
Selfishness:
Why self-care feels selfish:
https://hopehealingcounseling.com/why-self-care-feels-selfish/
Type A behavior:
https://www.businessinsider.com/type-a-personality-relax-without-guilt-2018-3
Unhealthy selflessness:
Schedule self-care first:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na8m4GPqA30
Free, printable daily self-care schedules and checklists:
toxic fans, the truth about furries, and how consumer culture manipulates you into resisting change
Research:
Toxic fandom:
https://beardedgentlemenmusic.com/2018/07/06/toxic-fandom-cult-of-identity/
Effects of bullying:
https://www.mentalhealth.com/library/long-term-effects-of-bullying
Furries:
Identity development:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/adolescent/chapter/identity-development-theory/
Consumer culture:
Not specifically discussed in podcast but relevant:
Proposed laws against furries (neither were passed):
After I recorded this podcast, I found the two following bills that were proposed (and not passed) regarding furry regulation in schools. They are ridiculous:
Oklahoma House Bill 3084: https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2023-24%20int/hb/HB3084%20int.pdf
Texas House Bill 4814 or the F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act (see everything underlined) - https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/HB04814I.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnEe5bBX2s
why it’s so hard to catch flies, ADHD time blindness, and why every year seems to go by more quickly
Research used in this episode:
Animal time perception:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/animal-time-perception
ADHD time perception:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8293837/
https://www.additudemag.com/wasting-time-adhd-and-time-perception/
Marshmallow study:
https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/new-study-disavows-marshmallow-tests-predictive-powers/
Default mode network:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2842461/
Why time goes faster as we get older
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/think-well/202011/why-time-goes-faster-we-age
https://www.upworthy.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-is-time-speeding-up
hitler’s parkinsonism, the nuremberg trials, and why we have black history month and not white history month
hitler’s parkinsonism, the nuremberg trials, and why we have black history month and not white history month
Research:
Videos of Hitler’s tremors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w3nsAaOpq4 (notice left hand tremors at 1:20 and 1:26 – the tremors at 1:26 can be seen more easily at the beginning of the following video)
http://www.ushmm.org/online/film/display/detail.php?file_num=5389 (left hand tremors at 0:08)
Journal article regarding Hitler’s Parkinsonism (with pictures):
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4683874/
Post-encephalitic Parkinsonism:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18591024/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4683874/
Not enough evidence to determine cause, but also not enough evidence to show that there were any cognitive issues that affected his behavior:
https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/39/1/article-pE8.pdf
Hospitalized in 1918 for mustard gas exposure and temporary blindness (article with pictures):
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/corporal-adolf-hitler-hospital-1918/
Nuremberg Trials:
https://www.history.com/articles/nuremberg-trials
https://benferencz.org/articles/2000-2004/war-crimes-trials-at-nuremberg/
The Nuremberg Race Laws:
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/nuremberg-laws
Culture: