Increasing numbers of people are avoiding the news, and a recent update to Ipsos’s Global Trends 2023 report has found that the current state of the world is causing people to focus on their own lives, rather than broader, global problems. Mike Clemence, associate director of trends & futures at Ipsos, talks Claudia Hammond through the findings and the "polycrisis" we find ourselves in. Coverage of these crises can have a psychological impact, Roxane Cohen Silver, distinguished professor of psychological science, medicine, and public health at the University of California Irvine, tells Claudia how media exposure to traumatic events can cause acute symptoms of stress, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
Whistleblowers do the important job of calling out wrongdoing in an organisation. So why are so many treated badly, even though they’ve done the right thing? And how can people be encouraged to raise concerns at work? Claudia speaks to Amy Edmondson, professor of leadership and management at the Harvard Business School, about "psychological safety" – the belief that you won’t be punished for speaking up.
And Claudia is joined in the studio by Daryl O’Connor, professor of psychology at the University of Leeds, to take us through some of the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology. We discuss whether compassion is a limited resource and if the emotional words we use can affect our heart health.
Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Sophie Ormiston Studio Manager: Tim Heffer Production Coordinator: Siobhan Maguire Editor: Holly Squire
Entitlement and bad luck; Awards finalist; intermittent fasting and memory
Voices & personality; Awards; canine jealousy; misophonia - noises that cause anger & anxiety, pink drinks make you run faster
Psychology of soap operas like the Archers; Awards Finalist
Pen or keyboard - what's best for notetaking; All in the Mind Awards; USA racist killings and mental health of black Americans
Memory under lockdown; Awards finalist StrongMen; Lockdown resilience
Rapport; Brain health in later life; Changing optimism through lifespan
Racism, awards and hypermobility
Wellcome Trust Mental health initiative; teenage sleep; choices children make
Ambiguous Loss; All in the Mind Awards; Pandemic impact on memory; Corpus Callosum
Claudia Hammond launches the 2021 All in the Mind Awards
Recovery stories, personality change, Covid
Spotting Fake News; Humour Seriously; Green Prescriptions a Joy or Chore?
What's happened to our mental health in 2020; tools to get through the winter
Anatomy of Touch: Digital Touch
Anatomy of Touch: Health and Touch
Anatomy of Touch: Culture
Anatomy of Touch: Don't Touch
Anatomy of Touch: Hunger
Blue Health; Talking to the dying; Diet or exercise to halt memory decline
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