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
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Transient amnesia; Mindfulness in schools; Insiders' Guide; Autism in Somali culture
Mental health support in the community; Insiders' Guide to Mental Health; Confidence
The Everyday Effect of Unconscious Bias
Cyber snooping your therapist; Performing anxiety; Insiders' Guide; Bribery and corruption
Heart failure; Insiders' Guide to Mental Health; Use of you
Adult ADHD; Insiders' Guide to Mental Health Services; Wound healing & expressive writing
Boomerang generation, Listener feedback, All in the Mind Awards, The lipstick effect
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Pathological Demand Avoidance, Is wisdom a trait or a state, Anxiety-free comedy gigs
Adolescent brain, Awards update, Phonagnosia
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Supertaskers, Technology to Replace Exams and the All in the Mind Awards
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