Pre-Occupied

Maddy and Zenon talk to Sai Auelua-Toomey, a down-to-earth and deeply knowledgeable doctoral student at Stanford University. Sai gives us first-hand insight into his discoveries about romantic racism. We also discuss the role of identity in academia and research, Sai's cross-cultural research experiences, and the future of diversity on college campuses. Send us an email at [email protected]! Follow us on Twitter @PreOccPodcast! Follow us on Instagram @preoccpodcast! Like us on Facebook! Visit us at pre-occupied.com!

Our intrepid hosts venture out of academia and into business to learn from Dr. Kizzy Parks, founder and CEO of several successful businesses and Ph.D. industrial organizational psychologist. Listeners will enjoy Dr. Parks's exciting life journey, inspiring perspective on life, and practical advice for anyone who wants to make a living by starting a business. Send us an email at [email protected]! Follow us on Twitter @PreOccPodcast! Follow us on Instagram @PreOccPodcast! Like us on Facebook! Visit us at pre-occupied.com!

In this episode, Maddy and Zenon interview Dr. Francine Dolins, a professor of comparative psychology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Dr. Dolins shared experiences with us that ranged from pursuing an education in England to following lemurs through the jungles of Madagascar. We also discuss how Dr. Dolins's research on spatial cognition can relate to humans with spatial reasoning impairments. In our introduction, we discuss how cognition depends on our bodies, the various primate species that Dr. Dolins works with, and more!  Embodied cognition article: https://bit.ly/3e1K3GS Developmental topographical disorientation article: https://bit.ly/3nybJ9i Send us an email at [email protected]! Follow us on Twitter @PreOccPodcast! Follow us on Instagram @PreOccPodcast! Like us on Facebook! Visit us at pre-occupied.com!

The hosts set the stage for upcoming episodes with a bit of background information about their own inclinations toward psychology, their friendship, and the podcast's conception.  Send us an email at [email protected]! Follow us on Twitter @PreOccPodcast! Follow us on Instagram @PreOccPodcast! Like us on Facebook! Visit us at pre-occupied.com!

We each read and discussed a research article to review some recent research. Maddy talked about a study reviewing the perception of dark humor during and after the Hurricane Sandy crisis, and Zenon discussed an article about babies' moral expectations when watching bear puppets stealing from one another. Maddy read McGraw et al. (2014): https://doi.org/f575tt Zenon read Stavans and Baillargeon (2019): https://doi.org/fqsb Send us an email at [email protected]! Follow us on Twitter @PreOccPodcast! Follow us on Instagram @PreOccPodcast! Like us on Facebook! Visit us at pre-occupied.com!