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The Psychology Podcast ran from 2007 through 2008.

This archive contains interviews with some current and some former TTU faculty members, and a few guests. These cover a wide range of topics, such as eating disorders, persuasion, life stress, giftedness, consumer product usability, and suicide.

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Dr. Alan Kazdin and Dr. Joaquin Borrego discuss effective parenting. Dr. Kazdin is a Professor of Psychology at Yale University and Director of Yale's Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic. He served as the President of the American Psychological Association and has authored many professional-audience books on child psychology and behavior including, The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child. Dr. Borrego is an assistant professor of psychology at Texas Tech University and director of the Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Research Lab. His research focuses specifically on children between the ages of 3 and 8 with disruptive behavior problems.

Dr. Marcia Scherer and Ms. Shelley Ducatt discuss how to interact with people who have a disability. Dr. Scherer is author of the book Living in the State of Stuck: How Assistive Technology Impacts the Lives of People with Disabilities. She is the director of the Institute for Matching Person and Technology and Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Ms. Shelley Ducatt is the Associate Director of the Student Disability Services at Texas Tech University.

Dr. Frank Drews, Dr. Marilyn Sue Bogner, and Dr. Dana Grzybicki discuss patient safety and ways to improve healthcare. Dr. Drews is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Utah. He is a cognitive psychologist who is interested in medical decision-making and human error in medicine. He is a recent recipient of the ALLUISI Early Career Award. Dr. Bogner is a psychologist and an independent medical error consultant and author of the books Human Error in Medicine and Misadventures in Health Care. Dr. Grzybicki is a medical doctor who has researched quality measurement and quality improvement pertaining to pathology practices and diagnostic information.

Dr. Volker Thomas and Dr. Terri Karis discuss challenges with being in an interracial couple and ways to manage these differences. Dr. Thomas is an associate professor in the department of child development and family studies at Purdue University, and Dr. Karis is an associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

Captain Gregory Stevens and Dr. Tara Galovski discuss road rage. Captain Stevens is a public information officer for the Lubbock Police Department and Dr. Galovski is a professor at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

In this psychology podcast Dr. Lane Powell and Dr. Debby Herbenick speak about virginity. Dr. Powell is a Certified Family Life Educator and professor at Texas Tech University, and Dr. Herbenick is Associate Director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Indiana University. She is also a sexual health educator at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.

In this Psychology Podcast, Dr. Eduardo Salas and Dr. Richard McGlynn discuss teamwork. Dr. Salas is Trustee Chair and Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida where he also holds an appointment as Principal Scientist for human factors at the Institute for Simulation and Training. Dr. McGlynn is a professor of psychology at Texas Tech University.

In this Psychology Podcast, Dr. Dawn Hughes and Dr. Murray Straus discuss partner abuse. Dr. Hughes is a clinical and forensic psychologist who maintains an independent practice in New York City. She is also a Clinical Instructor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at New York. Dr. Straus is a professor of sociology and founder and co-director of the Family and Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire.

In this Psychology Podcast, Dr. Nancy Cooke and Dr. Missy Cummings discuss current and anticipated uses of uninhabited aerial vehicles as well as psychology's role. Dr. Nancy Cooke is a professor of Applied Psychology at Arizona State University Polytechnic and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at New Mexico State University. She is also editor of the journal Human Factors and author of the recent book Stories of Modern Technology Failures and Cognitive Engineering Solutions. Dr. Missy Cummings is a Boeing Assistant Professor in the Aeronatuics and Astronautics Department and Director of the Humans and Automation Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Cummings was one of the first female fighter pilots in the United States Military.

In this Psychology Podcast, Dr. Martin Antony, a professor at the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University and Director of Research at the Anxiety Treatment and Research Center at St. Joseph’s Healthcare, and Dr. Frank Dattilio, who maintains a dual faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, share information about how phobias develop and the treatment of phobias.

In this Psychology Podcast, we speak with Dr. Sonia Ancoli-Israel, director of the Sleep Disorders Clinic at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. Dr. Ancoli-Israel, who is also a faculty member in the Psychiatry Department at the University of California, San Diego, shares information with us pertaining to proper sleeping habits and the science behind sleep.

On the sixth installment of the Psychology Podcast, we hear from Dr. Lucy Brown (Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University) about what it means to be in a state of romantic love. Dr. Clyde Hendrick and Dr. Susan Hendrick, both TTU faculty, also shed some light on what helps to keep a long term relationship going. We also hear a short story about love and chocolate from Diane Kron, owner of K Chocolatier in Beverly Hills.

On the fourth installment of the Psychology Podcast, Dr. Deborah Boehm-Davis of George Mason University and Dr. Wendy Rogers of Georgia Institute of Technology explain to us why it is not necessarily our fault if we are unable to work some consumer products. We conclude this episode with Dr. Don Norman’s (Nielsen Norman Group) predictions of specific problems with future technologies.

On the second installment of the Psychology Podcast, TTU faculty member, Dr. Jeff Larsen, discusses various persuasive tactics that salespeople use to convince us to make a purchase. Following, Dr. Richard Petty from Ohio State University fills us in on what makes persuasion effective.