05 - Do You Want it Darker? The Dark Triad of Personality

05 - This week we're taking a look at the Dark Triad - psychopathy, narcissism and machiavellianism. Amy provides some definitions before we compare notes on a collection of interesting articles. From cyber aggression to succeeding at work, the Dark Triad has been linked to a variety of behaviours, relational patterns and characteristics. We end the episode with some highly rigorous in-house research by Hunter on his Harry Potter house, self-diagnose a touch of misophonia and consider the relational impact of phubbing. 

Want to take a look at a measure of the dark triad? Paulhus & Jones' Short Dark Triad (SD3) is available free online - http://personality-testing.info/tests/SD3/ 

Amy's Articles:
Cyber aggression
Risk Taking
Here's the misophonia article

Hunter's Articles:
Observed suffering
Academic Majors
Doping attitudes
Career success
And here is Phubbing

04 - Attachment Theory as it Relates to a) Parenting & b) Distress in Cancer Patients

04 - This episode we talk about attachment theory which is one of the dominant theories in psychology. We give background about the theory, Amy then talks about a parenting intervention based on attachment theory, Hunter talks about how attachment influences emotional support and distress in cancer patients. We finish with some fun articles in 'things we came across'  discussing wedding reality tv watching, and the personality traits of Hogwarts house members.  

Article links below:

Parent, child interaction therapy as an attachment-based intervention

The influence of attachment and emotional support in end-stage cancer

Harry Potter and the measures of personality: Extraverted Gryffindors, agreeable Hufflepuffs, clever Ravenclaws, and manipulative Slytherins

Tuning Into Fantasy: Motivations to View Wedding Television and Associated Romantic Beliefs

fivethirtyeight.com - how to spot a front runner on the 'Bachelor' or 'Bachelorette'

03 - Identity & How it Changes in Relation to a Psychological Disorder (Schizophrenia, PTSD)

03 - On this pod we discuss identity and how it changes when someone develops schizophrenia or when they are traumatised and develops Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. We talk about the ways identity can change and how this can be related to symptoms/outcome. We have a pretty in-depth discussion that should be of interest to anyone who knows someone with schizophrenia or who has been traumatised, or if you have worked with anyone experiencing these problems. We finish up with our segment 'things we came across'. 

The sound levels are a little off in this one - we got a second mic and in the excitement of setting it up we didn't adjust the levels properly. 

Article Links:

Trauma and identity

Schizophrenia and identity

Amputee envy

Espionage and psychopathology

02 - Therapeutic Alliance when Working with Adults & Children, Dog & Cat People, Astronauts

Pod 02 - We discuss two articles looking at the therapeutic alliance between client and therapist. Hunter talks about a study with adults and how the alliance impacts on therapy outcomes. Amy talks about the differences/challenges in therapeutic alliance when working with children. We finish up with some interesting articles in 'things we came across'. 

Therapeutic alliance predicts outcome (adults) 

Therapeutic alliance and working with children

Dog and Cat People

Astronauts