Background Reading (Kaha Mind)

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We’ve been asking a lot of questions lately. Not just about what psychology tells us, but about what happens when you look a little closer at the research behind it. That’s the thinking behind Background Reading, a new podcast from Kaha Mind. Each episode starts in behavioural research and from there we follow the evidence, pull apart what we think we know, and see where it takes us. We’re excited to finally put it out into the world. Follow Background Reading for the episodes to come.

Episodes

  1. Sep 26

    Episode 2: "Is Your Fitness Tracker Making You Anxious?"

    Your fitness tracker promised you awareness. The research says it may have delivered anxiety instead.In this episode, we get into the psychology of wearables - sleep scores that override how you actually feel, cardiac alerts that scare you for nothing, and a new clinical condition called orthosomnia that now has its own diagnostic questionnaire. (Yes, really. A test to measure how anxious your sleep score is making you.)We also talk about when wearables genuinely save lives and why the same design that manufactures panic occasionally catches something real.The question we're sitting with: are you living in your body, or in its data?

    Episode 2: "Is Your Fitness Tracker Making You Anxious?"

  2. Season 1, Episode 2 Trailer

    Trailer | Episode 2: "Is Your Fitness Tracker Making You Anxious?" | Background reading

    If this is what didn’t make the cut, you can imagine what did. 👀Episode 2 gets into wearables, anxiety, and the strange business of turning your body into data.Out soon.

    Trailer | Episode 2: "Is Your Fitness Tracker Making You Anxious?" | Background reading

  3. Season 1, Episode 1 Trailer

    Trailer | Episode 1: "Falling for a chatbot" | Background Reading

    Background readying for Background Reading! Behind the scenes chaos for Episode 1! 🫪

    Trailer | Episode 1: "Falling for a chatbot" | Background Reading

  4. Sep 25

    Episode 1 - Falling for a chatbot (Audio)

    What happens when the person who makes you feel most understood…isn’t a person at all?In our first episode of Background Reading, we’re falling down the rabbit hole of AI companionship: people falling in love with chatbots, grieving them when they’re gone, and turning to them for the kind of connection they can’t always find with humans.We're asking a deceptively simple question: what actually makes a relationship feel real?If a chatbot listens, remembers and is always there… does it matter that it doesn’t love you back? Come for the AI romance. Stay for the uncomfortable questions about loneliness, intimacy, and what we expect from each other.

  5. Sep 25

    Episode 1 - Falling for a chatbot

    What happens when the person who makes you feel most understood…isn’t a person at all?In our first episode of Background Reading, we’re falling down the rabbit hole of AI companionship: people falling in love with chatbots, grieving them when they’re gone, and turning to them for the kind of connection they can’t always find with humans.We're asking a deceptively simple question: what actually makes a relationship feel real?If a chatbot listens, remembers and is always there… does it matter that it doesn’t love you back? Come for the AI romance. Stay for the uncomfortable questions about loneliness, intimacy, and what we expect from each other.

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We’ve been asking a lot of questions lately. Not just about what psychology tells us, but about what happens when you look a little closer at the research behind it. That’s the thinking behind Background Reading, a new podcast from Kaha Mind. Each episode starts in behavioural research and from there we follow the evidence, pull apart what we think we know, and see where it takes us. We’re excited to finally put it out into the world. Follow Background Reading for the episodes to come.

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