Naturally Artificial | Bridging the Gap between Minds and Machines Junior Okoroafor

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Tim Harford.

Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of “The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, “Messy”, and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s “More or Less”, the iTunes-topping series “Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, and the new podcast “Cautionary Tales”. Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Tim was made an OBE for services to improving economic understanding in the New Year honours of 2019.

This discussion focuses on Tim's book the "Data Detective/How to Make the World Add Up'' and how we can better utilise behavioural psychology in the search for truth!

Show Notes
Tim's website
Tim's twitter: @TimHarford

Other book mentioned: The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef


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Host: Junior Okoroafor, Twitter: @JuniorOkoroafor, Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junior-okoroafor-4b8069193/
Art Work: Charlotte Mason
Podcast Editor: Victoria Okoroafor


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In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Baland Jalal.

Baland is a researcher at Harvard University and a Visiting Researcher at Cambridge University.
He obtained his PhD at the Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine. His research focuses on sleep paralysis and OCD. Along with VS Ramachandran, he has proposed a neuroscientific account for why people see ghosts during sleep paralysis. The Telegraph Described him as "one of the world's leading experts on sleep paralysis".

The discussion mainly focus on OCD, its causes and its treatment. We also talk about some of Baland's new work on culturally adapting CBT to Muslim groups.

Show Notes
Baland's paper on treatment of OCD https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cns-spectrums/article/obsessivecompulsive-disordercontamination-fears-features-and-treatment-novel-smartphone-therapies-in-light-of-global-mental-health-and-pandemics-covid19/DC1CE373987394FA0B605D4E2BB6639E

Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (OCI) https://www.div12.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OCI.pdf

Culturally adapted CBT https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29080595/

Baland's Socical Media is "Baland Jalal" on all major platforms
Baland's Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCumyt6mGLaVO4_N1LkAoXdA

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Host: Junior Okoroafor, Twitter: @JuniorOkoroafor, Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junior-okoroafor-4b8069193/
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Podcast Editor: Victoria Okoroafor

Jesse Bering is a research psychologist and Director of the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. An award-winning science writer specializing in human behaviour, his first book, The Belief Instinct (2011), was included on the American Library Association’s Top 25 Books of the Year. This was followed by a collection of his previously published essays, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? (2012), and Perv (2013), a taboo-breaking work that received widespread critical acclaim and was named as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. His most recent book, Suicidal, will be released in late 2018 (published in the UK as A Very Human Ending). All of his books have been translated into many different languages.
In this episode Jesse and I discuss. 1) How Jesse got into studying sexuality ; 2) The psychology of the acquisition of sexual orientations including sexual preferences and 3) The moral considerations of sexual orientations.


Show notes
Laws, D. R., & Marshall, W. L. (1991). Masturbatory reconditioning with sexual deviates: An evaluative review. Advances in Behaviour Research and Therapy, 13(1), 13–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/0146-6402(91)90012-Y

Host: Junior Okoroafor, Twitter: @JuniorOkoroafor, Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junior-okoroafor-4b8069193/
Art Work: Charlotte Mason
Podcast Editor: Victoria Okoroafor 

In this podcast episode, I sit down and have a chat with Wendy Wood on habits.
Wendy Wood is the Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at University of Southern California, where she has been a faculty member since 2009. Wood completed her bachelor's degree at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Wood's primary research focuses on the effects of habits on behaviour. She is the author of the popular science book, Good Habits, Bad Habits, released in October 2019

The discussion focuses on the science of habit formation and habit continuation. And the applications of habits in making a positive impact in day-day life.










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Host: Junior Okoroafor, Twitter: @JJStyles12, Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junior-okoroafor-4b8069193/
Art Work: Charlotte Mason
Speaker Co-ordinators: Zoe Popescu, Emily Camp
Podcast Editor: Victoria Okoroafor

 David Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Criminology and founding Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University . David completed his PhD at Selwyn College Cambridge in 1983. 

He is the former Editor of the prestigious Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, a Prior to taking up his academic appointment in September 1997, David was Senior Policy Advisor to the Prison Reform Trust, and between October 1983-April 1997 he worked as a Prison Governor.
 His current research interests range from the phenomenon of British serial murder, family annihilation, hitmen and lethal violence within organised crime, to all aspects of prison history and penal reform.





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Host: Junior Okoroafor, Twitter: @JJStyles12, Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junior-okoroafor-4b8069193/
Art Work: Charlotte Mason
Speaker Co-ordinators: Zoe Popescu, Emily Camp
Podcast Editor: Victoria Okoroafor

In this podcast episode, I sat down for an in depth conversation with Scott Barry Kaufman. Scott is a humanistic psychologist and has taught courses on intelligence, creativity, and well-being at Columbia University, NYU, the University of Pennsylvania.  Scott received his M. Phil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge and later went on to receive his P.H.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Yale University.

Scott is the author of Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization. In the book Scott revists and reforms Maslow's hierachy of needs. Scott provides a roadmap for finding purpose and fulfillment–not by striving for money, success, or “happiness,” but by becoming the best version of ourselves, or what Maslow called self-actualization.

The discussion focuses on Scott's argument for a his Revised-integrated hierarchy of human needs and the nature of the phenomenon of transcedence.







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Host: Junior Okoroafor, Twitter: @JJStyles12, Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junior-okoroafor-4b8069193/
Art Work: Charlotte Mason
Speaker Co-ordinators: Zoe Popescu, Emily Camp
Podcast Editor: Victoria Okoroafor