Conversations About Psychology Volume 1

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This compendium includes the following 5 books featuring renowned psychologists </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Diana Deutsch Chris Frith Stephen Hinshaw Stephen Kosslyn</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Jonathan Schooler</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> providing fully accessible insights into cutting-edge academic research while revealing the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research. </span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I. Believing Your Ears: Examining Auditory Illusions - A conversation with Diana Deutsch Professor of Psychology at UC San Diego.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Diana Deutsch is one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of music. This conversation provides behind-the-scenes insights into her discovery of a large number of auditory illusions including the so-called Octave Illusion which concretely illustrate how what we think we're hearing is often quite different from the actual sounds that are hitting our eardrums.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>II. In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind - A conversation with Chris Frith Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology UCL.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> After a thought-provoking exploration of how Chris Frith became interested in the study of schizophrenia this conversation examines topics such how our understanding of schizophrenia has evolved the role of dopamine how the brain works the brain's predicting role the phantom limb phenomenon how the brain and mind link up how culture affects the brain and much more.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>III. Understanding ADHD - A conversation with Stephen Hinshaw Professor of Psychology UC Berkeley.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Stephen Hinshaw is an expert in the fields of clinical child and adolescent psychology and developmental psychopathology as well as stigma preventive interventions and dehumanization related to mental illness. This extensive conversation examines the facts and misunderstandings surrounding ADHD diagnosis and misdiagnosis treatment family responsibilities the subtitles of medication adult ADHD gender what's happening on an international level and finally the stigma of mental illness.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>IV. Applied Psychology: Thinking Critically - A conversation with Stephen Kosslyn psychologist and Founder President and Chief Academic Officer of Foundry College. </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This conversation explores Kosslyn's extensive analysis of research results on the differences between the functions of the top parts and the bottom parts of the brain and what the implications of those results are for everyday life which led to a new theory of personality to better understand the way we think and behave the so-called Theory of Cognitive Modes.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>V. Mind-Wandering & Meta-Awareness - A conversation with Jonathan Schooler Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences UC Santa Barbara.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> This conversation provides a detailed examination of Schooler's research on the nature of mental life and in particular consciousness and explores how mind-wandering can serve as a window into the psychological world of meta-awareness the nature of consciousness mindfulness creativity free will and verbal overshadowing.</span></p><p><br></p>