Psychology Takeaway Podcast

Episode 39 - Stress Part Two. Stress research started in Canada with Hungarian researcher Hans Seyle - he concluded that physical pain resulted in the General Adaptation Syndrome - physical and emotional collapse. Other researchers have found that psychological factors cause stress. Join Ralph and Jim as they continue their exploration of the negative side of stress.

 

Episode 38 - Stress Part One. What are some of the signs of stress? How does your body and mind react to stressful situations?  Ralph and Jim begin to look at how stress affects both physical and mental health.

Learn More –

How Stress Affects Your Body - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-t1Z5-oPtU

Emotions, Stress and Health - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KbSRXP0wik

How Stress Affects Your Brain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuyPuH9ojCE

Love Part Three - The Down Side of Romantic Love. If there is one perfect person and we feel we have found them, the potential emotional devastation if they reject us is huge. There are some warning signs. Also, if it does, there are ways to cope. Counseling may help but Stoic endurance may be the best advice.

Bad advice on dating: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dating-advice-married-people_l_5dc5ebb0e4b00927b23317e2

40 BEST pick up lines: https://athlonsports.com/pick-up-lines-funny

Interesting episode of This American Life on relationships: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/486/valentines-day/act-one-6

 

 

 Today Ralph and Jim talk about the "love" and "cuddle" hormone and we discuss the history and socio-cultural aspects of love and marriage. For millennia these were separate entities, but that all changed around 1774 AD - at least in the West.

This is the first part of a multipart series one of the most widely explored and still mysterious emotion – LOVE. In this Podcast we talk about the seven kinds of love identified by the Greeks; Ralph looks at some research on dating behavior, and what happens when love goes wrong.

 

Ralph and Jim conclude this series with a positive psychology exercise created by Jim’s wife – the story scroll. By looking at helpful people, healthy habits and the chapters in your life, you can increase happiness, engagement and meaning. You can move from wherever you are at the present to your ideal future.

Episode 33 Positive Psychology Part 5 – Ralph and Jim look at the concept of Optimism and relate the positive impact of optimism on their own lives. For people who lack optimism, Ralph provides strategies to decrease pessimism, thus avoiding what Seligman called “learned helplessness”.

 

Learn More

The Power of Optimism with Bert Jacobs:

https://youtu.be/yYGNWIT4eqA

Alison Ledgerwood presents a simple trick for turning pessimistic thoughts into optimistic outcomes:

https://www.ted.com/talks/alison_ledgerwood_a_simple_trick_to_improve_positive_thinking?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

 Part Four - The third main pillar of Positive Psychology is the "Meaningful Life". This Podcast shows why meaning is critical to the good life; how the six main virtues  - common to all cultures - help us live better, more purposeful and more satisfied lives.

Ralph and Jim talk about how engagement with the world around you creates a sense of FLOW - a concept central to Positive Psychology.

In this Podcast Jim talks about some of his research on happiness. Ralph outline Seven Habits of Positve People,