Have you ever considered rowing across the Atlantic? How about making it even more challenging by doing it whilst wearing an ECG monitor and filling in psychological questionnaires? Claudia Hammond speaks to the first Austrian woman to row the Atlantic, Ciara Burns, who collected data throughout her 42 day crossing. And to the professor who studied the data, Eugenijus Kaniusas from the Vienna University of Technology, about the three big dips in mood along the way. Ciara talks about the emotional highs and lows of rowing to America, about the night skies, meeting whales, and how it feels when the Atlantic comes crashing down on you.
Sports psychologist Peter Olusoga from Sheffield Hallam University, discusses mental preparation for an adventure like Ciara's and how being in the middle of the Atlantic, with the astronauts on the international space station as your nearest other humans, can provide a lasting perspective change.
Peter also describes a new piece of research showing that smelling other people's sweat, collected whilst they watched scary films, can help us to be more observant and overcome a well-established psychological effect known as inattentional blindness.
And Claudia talks to Tiago Pereira, a Portuguese psychologist who is calling for psychologists to put a full stop to poverty. He says that psychologists are uniquely placed to communicate the causes and consequences of poverty, and to use that information to demand governmental policy changes.
Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Lorna Stewart
Studio Manager: Donald MacDonald
Production Co-ordination: 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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