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
Anxiety and children; First impressions; Mental health manifestos; Insiders' Guide
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
ADHD and mindwandering, Treating insomnia helps depression, Think Ahead scheme
Pathological Demand Avoidance, Is wisdom a trait or a state, Anxiety-free comedy gigs
Adolescent brain, Awards update, Phonagnosia
Time travelling in the human mind
How Are Memories Formed?
Taking pride, Correct vocabulary in describing mental health, Green exercise
Tasers, Amnesia Museum, The dangers of diagnosing Donald Trump
All in the Mind Awards Ceremony from Wellcome Collection in London
Care farming; All in the Mind Awards; Turn-taking in conversation
Supertaskers, Technology to Replace Exams and the All in the Mind Awards
Aircraft noise and mental health, All in the Mind Awards, Imitation in newborn babies
The Depressed Cake Shop, Gut bacteria and the mind, The perils of perception
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