66 - How to accept a compliment

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This episode we’re excited to be responding to a highly relatable listener question.

Justin Hensley (@EBMgoneWILD) asked us: “How does one take a compliment? In COVID times we get a lot of “thank you for your service” but even regularly I suck at taking them. Is it an upbringing thing?”

So we’re pulling it apart in the two shrinks way with a chat about why it’s so hard, what issues can be underlying this & how on earth you’re supposed to accept a compliment graciously.

To wrap up, it’s things we came across focused on insults - hear which musician gets enough negative press to have a whole research paper written about him and try out some medieval insults.

Articles:

Imposter syndrome: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5869760/

A conceptual model of compliments: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344508037_New_perspectives_on_the_praise_literature_towards_a_conceptual_model_of_compliment

Self-esteem: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103116302943

Backhanded compliments: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-082_f96a8202-ccfe-409b-a8ba-0f187bf678e4.pdf

Culture: https://benjamins.com/catalog/lic.17.1.06mir/fulltext/lic.17.1.06mir.pdf and
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Thanks!-You-look-rather-dashing-yourself.-%3A-A-of-Melin/edf4b2a346016b846e69850eeba85e4a3c1e3dbf

TWCA

Insulting James Blunt: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530920300884

Medieval insult generator: https://fungenerators.com/random/insult/medieval-insult/

64 - Election Emotions: anxiety, catharsis and hope

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This episode, Amy and Hunter talk shit about the US elections. After a long, stressful week anxiously watching, we chat about how we’ve felt, our top gripes from the past 4 years & why it’s ok to let it all out.

We all need to talk, process, feel everything that’s going on right now - hear why it’s important to let loose before we can move on.

Art installation of Trump’s 20,000 lies: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/a-massive-mural-featuring-20-000-of-trumps-lies-has-been-installed-in-soho-102920

Rudy Giuliani at Four Seasons Total Landscaping: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/08/the-other-four-seasons-trump-team-holds-press-conference-at-suburban-garden-centre

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06 - Treating Anxious Kids

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06 - We take a look at anxiety in childhood. Amy takes us through some common symptoms before Hunter chats about using play in exposure therapy. We finish our anxiety segment with some research exploring the changes in children’s anxiety by supplementing their treatment with a brief parental anxiety intervention.

Plus, ever wondered if you’ve got the right traits to make it into Big Brother? Or considered building your own functioning spider man suit? Tune in for some handy hints.

Amy's articles:

Brief parental anxiety management

Spider man's suit

Hunter's articles:

Playful exposure therapy

Big Brother

 

05 - Do You Want it Darker? The Dark Triad of Personality

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05 - This week we're taking a look at the Dark Triad - psychopathy, narcissism and machiavellianism. Amy provides some definitions before we compare notes on a collection of interesting articles. From cyber aggression to succeeding at work, the Dark Triad has been linked to a variety of behaviours, relational patterns and characteristics. We end the episode with some highly rigorous in-house research by Hunter on his Harry Potter house, self-diagnose a touch of misophonia and consider the relational impact of phubbing. 

Want to take a look at a measure of the dark triad? Paulhus & Jones' Short Dark Triad (SD3) is available free online - http://personality-testing.info/tests/SD3/ 

Amy's Articles:
Cyber aggression
Risk Taking
Here's the misophonia article

Hunter's Articles:
Observed suffering
Academic Majors
Doping attitudes
Career success
And here is Phubbing

04 - Attachment Theory as it Relates to a) Parenting & b) Distress in Cancer Patients

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04 - This episode we talk about attachment theory which is one of the dominant theories in psychology. We give background about the theory, Amy then talks about a parenting intervention based on attachment theory, Hunter talks about how attachment influences emotional support and distress in cancer patients. We finish with some fun articles in 'things we came across'  discussing wedding reality tv watching, and the personality traits of Hogwarts house members.