The Nature & Nurture Podcast

New episode with @bealuna55 @LNCD_Pitt on adolescent brain development, dopamine and reward processing, cognitive control and risk-taking, puberty and hormones, evolutionary psychology, and more! youtu.be/9aO6jBHQCqc

New @NaturedNurture episode with computational neuroscientist @robchavez on his research on social cognition, the budding field of personality neuroscience, speculations about consciousness, and more! youtu.be/PsJf6U785Hw

Nature & Nurture new episode: @adam0mary speaks with @robkhenderson about his new memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, & Social Class. Rob discusses luxury beliefs, social status, & classism; personal experiences with poverty; the importance of self-discipline; the politics of diversity and inclusion in academia, trickle-down meritocracy, more. youtu.be/yqIfhtI2PBk?si… via @YouTube

Had a great conversation with @adam0mary here. One thing that occurred to me is how I grew up just before video games got really good. The Xbox 360 came out when I was in high school but Xbox Live hadn't really taken off yet. Fast internet existed but was still a novelty, esp. for poor people (the "rich" kids had DSL). I also came of age just before the smartphone era (had a fliphone my senior year of HS). Millennials witnessed the gradual and then sudden rise of online gaming, smart phones, streaming, and dating apps after already reaching young adulthood. I was getting DVDs in the mail from Netflix in 2009 and didn't get a smartphone until two years later when I was 21. These kind of experiences distinguish millennials and Gen Z.

Learn all about the neurobiology of the love hormone, #oxytocin, and its modulation by sex hormones in this new Valentine's Day episode of @NaturedNurture with @dsquintana open.spotify.com/episode/43OiyS…

How did life first emerge from chemical soup? What is digital chemistry and can it produce artificial life? Does entropy actually predict a heat death of the universe? New episode of @NaturedNurture with @leecronin discussing these questions and more: youtube.com/watch?v=hyl7a6…

Nature & Nurture #130: MIT philosopher Dr. Alex Byrne - There Is No Gender Without Sex, interviewed by Adam Omary (trigger warning: many heresies openly discussed here). youtu.be/qpJZnS2lHeM?fe… via @YouTube

New episode of @NaturedNurture with neuroscientist @camillalnord discussing her book The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health youtu.be/XZiL5GFo1bc

Nature & Nurture #127. Dr. Rachel Marsh - Self-Regulation, Brain Development, and Anxiety. Interviewed by @Adam0Mary @NaturedNurture youtu.be/8Konqc7BoDQ?fe… via @YouTube

New episode of @NaturedNurture with @DrRachelMarsh discussing the neurodevelopment of self-regulation and its pathology in anxiety disorders: youtu.be/8Konqc7BoDQ

New episode of @NaturedNurture with philosopher @wrwveit discussing animal welfare ethics and the evolution of consciousness: youtu.be/sJ0ModsPKzA

New episode of @NaturedNurture with @LChittka discussing his book "The Mind of a Bee" and overviewing evidence for complex cognition, social intelligence, learning and memory - and even personality and emotion - in bees! youtube.com/watch?v=4PLvK5…

New episode of @NaturedNurture with Dr. Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain discussing his latest book #FreeAgents and the evolutionary neuroscience of free will! youtube.com/watch?v=EsE7Tu…

New episode of @NaturedNurture with @ed_hagen discussing recent controversies in evolutionary anthropology, the importance and complexity of sex differences research, the evolutionary adaptiveness of substance use, and more! youtube.com/watch?v=bcJ4Vs…

New episode of @NaturedNurture with @JASilvers discussing adolescent brain development, the storm and stress of puberty, hormones, and emotion regulation! youtu.be/2ABZ0vvB0Jw

New episode of @NaturedNurture with Dr. Cory Clark! @ImHardcory We discuss open science, moral psychology, her meta-psychology research on biases commonly held by psychologists themselves: youtu.be/cuibJkWN6tc

New episode of @NaturedNurture with Dr. James Roney on the evolution and function of sex hormones, and their role in motivation: youtube.com/watch?v=6K1bkB…

New episode of @NaturedNurture with @JoHenrich discussing culture evolution, the psychology of WEIRDness, the influence of religion on moral belief and family dynamics, and more! youtu.be/tEz-M2qfrgs

New episode of @NaturedNurture with Dr. Massimo Pigliucci on the extended evolutionary synthesis, the evolution of rationality, and the philosophy of skepticism: youtube.com/watch?v=bFOzke…

New episode of @NaturedNurture with @StephanieBugden discussing the development of numerical cognition & children's math education: youtube.com/watch?v=_keN_O…