Brain Briefs: Answers To The Most (and Least) Pressing Questions About Your Mind With Art Markman

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Lisa is joined by Art Markman who talks about his book Brain Briefs Answers to the Most and Least Pressing Questions about Your Mind Art Markman is the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Founding Director of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations His research explores a variety of topics in thinking including the way people form and use analogies generate creative ideas and make decisions He blogs for Psychology Today Fast Company occasionally for HBR He is co-host of the public radio show and podcast Two Guys on Your Head produced by KUT in Austin Art s books include Brain Briefs Smart Thinking Habits of Leadership and Smart Change In his spare time Art plays saxophone in a Ska band writes for the Psychology Department Limerick Committee and hangs out with his family Book Description Why do we love kitten videos so much Does time speed up as we get older Should we play brain games Can we make ourselves happy Art Markman and Bob Duke hosts of the popular Austin-based KUT radio show and podcast Two Guys on Your Head are here to answer all your questions about how the brain works and why we behave the way we do Featuring the latest empirical findings this is science served up in fun and revelatory bite-size bits along with a complete set of references for further study This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network if you are interested in advertising on this podcast contact us at https www spreaker com show 5948889 advertisementClick here to visit this podcast episode