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Episode 9: Early Life Adversity, Emotion Regulation, & Family Separation Policy with Dr. Jen Silvers Probing the Mind: Testing the breaking point of neuropsychological as*essments Episode 8: Adolescent Social, Cognitive, and Brain Development with Dr. Kate Mills Episode 9: Early Life Adversity, Emotion Regulation, & Family Separation Policy with Dr. Jen Silvers For our ninth episode, we interviewed Dr. Jennifer Silvers, As*istant Professor of Psychology at UCLA. Episode 8: Adolescent Social, Cognitive, and Brain Development with Dr. Kate Mills For our eighth episode, we interviewed Dr. Kate Mills, As*istant Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. Episode 7: Functional Brain Networks, Cognitive Science, & Reverse Inference with Dr. Russ Poldrack For our seventh episode, we interviewed Dr. Russ Poldrack, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford MYTH: Autism is characterized by social aversion or social avoidance You have a test this week, so you lay out your set of highlighters, open your textbook (for what may be the first time), and embark on your mission to know every important detail for your test. This is a common experience and everyone seems to think that highlighting ‘key points’ in the text is essential to studying, but is it really as helpful as we think it is? Somewhere along the way, we all started believing that if we want to come off as intelligent, we need to use big and flowerly language, and use it often. However, psychological research has investigated this as*umption, and the results are surprising.  Woody Allen’s Latest Film Explores the Intersection of Mental Illness and Social Status Stanley Milgram is one of the most famous people in the history of psychology, and also one of the most controversial because of his work on obedience. But many people are unfamiliar with Milgram's work after his rise to fame.  Ever felt “positively punished” when your dog-trainer or psychologist inundate you with these lingo?