The Human Behavior Podcast The Human Behavior Podcast
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Do you ever wonder why people act the way that they do? Join human behavior experts Brian Marren and Greg Williams as they discuss all things human behavior related. Their goal is to increase your Advanced Critical Thinking ability through a better understanding of HBPR&A (Human Behavior Pattern Recognition & Analysis.) What is HBPR&A? It's a scientific (and fun) way to understand and articulate human behavior cues so that you can predict likely outcomes and it works regardless of your race, religion, political ideology or culture!
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The Science of Scams
Today we are discussing some of the psychological reasons behind why we are all prone to getting scammed!
For the show we answered three main questions:
Why do scams work?
What is the psychology behind scams? And,
Who is prone to falling for scams?
During the episode we explain how our brain gets hijacked by a good story which causes us to lose our ability to think critically and rationally.
Thank you so much for tuning in, we hope you enjoy the episode and please check out our Patreon channel where we have a lot more content, as well as subscriber only episodes of the show.
If you enjoy the podcast, I would kindly ask that you leave us a review and more importantly, please share it with a friend. Thank you for your time and don’t forget that Training Changes Behavior!
Support the Show.
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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArcadiaCognerati
More about Greg and Brian: https://arcadiacognerati.com/arcadia-cognerati-leadership-team/ -
Memory Is Fiction
Today we are talking about the capabilities and limitations of our Memory and how it can be affected by a number of different external and internal influences.
During the episode we explain how and why our brain creates false memories, how memory-emotion links are formed, the difference between memory and recall, and we explain how to create accurate memories and correct memory distortions so you can use your own experiences for predictive analysis.
Thank you so much for tuning in, we hope you enjoy the episode and if you want more you can check out our Patreon channel where we have a lot more content as well as subscriber only episodes of the show. If you enjoy the podcast, I would kindly ask that you leave us a review and more importantly, please share it with a friend. Thank you for your time and don’t forget that Training Changes Behavior!
Support the Show.
Website: https://thehumanbehaviorpodcast.buzzsprout.com/share
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheHumanBehaviorPodcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehumanbehaviorpodcast/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArcadiaCognerati
More about Greg and Brian: https://arcadiacognerati.com/arcadia-cognerati-leadership-team/ -
O.B.E.
Today we are talking about something that affects our perception and our cognitive performance, even before we realize it’s an issue! It’s something we call “O.B.E.” which stands for Overcome By Emotion or Overwhelmed By Events.
During the episode we define in great detail what we mean by these terms and how they affect our ability to sense make and problem solve but the reason we are talking about OBE is because it comes on much faster than we think and is often the biggest contributing factor to poor decision making.
When we use the term “overwhelmed” people often assume that we are talking about a situation or event that is highly chaotic or complex but in reality it can come on when we are running a few minutes late for an important event. During the episode we give several examples of what we mean by OBE and we talk about the physiological and psychological processes that contribute to becoming overwhelmed by events or overcome by emotion.
Thank you so much for tuning in, we hope you enjoy the episode and if you want more you can check out our Patreon channel where we have a lot more content as well as subscriber only episodes of the show. If you enjoy the podcast I would kindly ask that you leave us a review and more importantly, please share it with a friend. Thank you for your time and don’t forget that Training Changes Behavior!
Support the Show.
Website: https://thehumanbehaviorpodcast.buzzsprout.com/share
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehumanbehaviorpodcast/
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More about Greg and Brian: https://arcadiacognerati.com/arcadia-cognerati-leadership-team/ -
Killing Complacency
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s episode of the Human Behavior Podcast.
For this episode we are defining a term that you’ve likely heard before called Complacency. We’ve all heard the saying that “complacency kills” or had someone tell us not to get complacent but I don’t ever hear anyone defining what complacency actually is! So, for this episode, we are defining complacency using four powerful cognitive processes that affect all humans which are Adaptation, Change Blindness, Channel Capacity, and Sequencing.
During the episode we define each one of the elements that make up complacency and we talk about why complacency exists, how it affects us, when it affects us, and we give some very simple ways to help counteract the brains natural tendency towards complacency.
Thank you so much for tuning in, we hope you enjoy the episode and if you want more you can check out our Patreon channel where we have a lot more content as well as subscriber only episodes of the show. If you enjoy the podcast I would kindly ask that you leave us a review and more importantly, please share it with a friend. Thank you for your time and don’t forget that Training Changes Behavior!
Support the Show.
Website: https://thehumanbehaviorpodcast.buzzsprout.com/share
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheHumanBehaviorPodcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehumanbehaviorpodcast/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArcadiaCognerati
More about Greg and Brian: https://arcadiacognerati.com/arcadia-cognerati-leadership-team/ -
Culture Doesn't Matter
Today we are talking about culture and why it matters less than what people think, especially when it comes to reading human behavior. Understanding culture is laboriously slow, heavily nuanced, and in today’s world of mass communication and global connectivity humans have the ability to choose what culture they belong to.
The human behavior principles that we discuss rely on human behavior characteristics which demonstrate intent. Culture can create idiosyncratic displays, rites, and rituals that have no or nominal bearing on threat prediction and hostile intent determination. So we feel that culture only matters as context, providing increased granularity with which to support one’s evidence-based conclusions.
For this episode we used the after action review we wrote about a government research project we were involved with a couple years ago where we had to show the efficacy and utility of our intent-based predictive analysis program. If you would like to read more about that program as well as the entire paper we wrote you can find it on the Arcadia Cognerati patreon page.
Thank you so much for tuning in, we hope you enjoy the episode and if you want more you can check out our Patreon channel where we have a lot more content as well as subscriber only episodes of the show. If you enjoy the podcast I would kindly ask that you leave us a review and more importantly, please share it with a friend. Thank you for your time and don’t forget that Training Changes Behavior!
Support the Show.
Website: https://thehumanbehaviorpodcast.buzzsprout.com/share
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheHumanBehaviorPodcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehumanbehaviorpodcast/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArcadiaCognerati
More about Greg and Brian: https://arcadiacognerati.com/arcadia-cognerati-leadership-team/ -
Connecting The Dots
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s episode of the Human Behavior Podcast. Today’s episode is sort of the next step after last week’s episode where we discussed how important it is to focus on the background action or the context or “scene” that you are observing because the seemingly mundane environmental signals are actually the foundation for observing human behavior.
So for this episode we are talking about anomaly detection, putting together the breadcrumbs, “connecting the dots” and why it’s so hard to do that in the moment. As you all know it’s easy to Monday morning quarterback a situation while sitting in a chair watching a youtube video but when you’re in the middle of the situation it’s much more difficult. For this episode Greg shared a couple of stories where he and a few other people didn’t connect the dots in the moment and then we go on to explain WHY this happens and we give some examples of HOW to “prime” yourself so you can get better at “connecting the dots.”
Thank you so much for tuning in, we hope you enjoy the episode and if you want more you can check out our Patreon channel where we have a lot more content as well as subscriber only episodes of the show. If you enjoy the podcast I would kindly ask that you leave us a review and more importantly, please share it with a friend. Thank you for your time and don’t forget that Training Changes Behavior!
Support the Show.
Website: https://thehumanbehaviorpodcast.buzzsprout.com/share
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheHumanBehaviorPodcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehumanbehaviorpodcast/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ArcadiaCognerati
More about Greg and Brian: https://arcadiacognerati.com/arcadia-cognerati-leadership-team/
Customer Reviews
Training your brain is greater than training your skill set
Another great episode.
The lesson about training your mind being exponentially more valuable than training your skills is something very few understand.
I am constantly asked by my friends where I do my run and gun training.
Nobody wants to listen to me say, it’s eight hours of classroom for every 10 minutes we are on the range sharpening our skills, I think you guys are in a similar situation that I am with my profession. People have a preconceived notion of what you do. Best solely on a label yet you offer so much more. Keep it up. There are us out there that are very interested in your teachings. Appreciate everything you guys do.
Humorous and Educational
Greg and Brian are truly modern day prophets of risk mitigation. This is an eye-opening, entertaining and brutally honest view on how you can learn to stay safe in this often risky and upside down world.
Excellent podcast-one of the few I really like
Guys could you do more on pre event indicators and situational awareness ?