Rebecca McInroy

The Texas Science & Natural History Museum hosted a live taping of Two Guys on Your Head, with the whole Two Guys team, Art Markman, Bob Duke, and Rebecca McInroy, to discuss the Psychology of Time. It was a wonderful conversation, and for the next few episodes, we’re bringing you bits and pieces of various aspects of the psychology of time.

The second installment of the series looks at the psychology of how we perceive time vs. how we remember time.

The Texas Science & Natural History Museum hosted a live taping of Two Guys on Your Head, with the whole Two Guys team, Art Markman, Bob Duke, and Rebecca McInroy, to discuss the Psychology of Time. It was a wonderful conversation, and for the next few episodes, we’re bringing you bits and pieces of various aspects of the psychology of time.

We’ll kick off by asking how we make sense of time scales, and why it’s so difficult for us to comprehend concepts like deep time.

Moving is never easy, but at least you have deadlines for when you need to be out of one place and into another. When it comes to unpacking, it’s a different story. As Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explore in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, getting settled in takes time, but the psychological payoff can be profound.

For many, fall marks the beginning of a new school year, which can mean a time to reinvent yourself. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss the importance of mindset, social groups, and expectations when starting fresh.

Emotions are sometimes good to listen to when you’re trying to make a decision, but sometimes they’re not so good. However, as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explore in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, the more you know about how your brain works and what certain feelings may indicate, the more tools you have to act.

We often read engaging or witty quotes and consider their content or meaning, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explore in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head,  quotes serve many functions in how and what we communicate and remember.

It’s August, which means it’s the anniversary of the first airing of Two Guys on Your Head on KUT Austin. And even though we don’t need an excuse to party, it seems strange to celebrate the 11-year mark. Why is that?

In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head,  Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explore the significance of psychological landmarks.

Oftentimes, we praise perfect execution over Samuel Beckett’s mantra,
​“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Even so, the idea of practicing a skill, learning a task, or iterating on an idea is easier for us to accept than allowing people who wrong us in some way a second chance.

In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explore why second chances are so valuable, not only in our academic and professional lives but in our personal lives as well.

Becoming an expert in any area takes a lot of time, work, and navigation; teaching our expertise to someone else takes a different and unique set of skills.

In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss how to teach expertise.

Every generation has a different starting point when it comes to knowledge, and it can be a challenge to decipher what we can take for granted regarding how we know what we know and what we need to learn for ourselves.

In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss the relationship between culture and knowledge.

With so many opportunities for compromise, not only in our political sphere but also in our daily lives, we might wonder why teaching strategies for this aren’t more common. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss why it’s so important to teach balanced pragmatism as a skill and as a value.

Check out the paper Art and Bob discuss by Curtis Puryear and Kurt Gray in the 2024 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Issue.

We live in an era of deep division, and it’s hard for people with opposing views to even talk to each other. So, how can we begin to move toward compromise and collaboration? In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss the idea of “balanced pragmatism” as a possible way forward.

Check out the paper by Curtis Puryear and Kurt Gray in the 2024 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Issue.

Happiness is important when it comes to our working conditions, but it’s not the only factor to consider. As Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, a good balance of promoting happiness, creativity, and efficiency can be difficult but rewarding.

When you work in an open floor plan it’s hard to concentrate as you’re easily distracted, and you feel like a pest, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, they do have an interesting upside.

Creating open floor plans for workspaces may be less expensive, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, psychologically, we’re paying a high price.

Performing social norms has benefits, however, when you have to perform all the time just to fit in, it can be stressful and exhausting. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about performance and privilege.

Many of us go through life blissfully unaware of how and why we are performing, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, those performances, specifically gesturing, help us communicate in ways we are only now beginning to understand.

Check out the study Art refers to by Bob Krauss.

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in a debate, even with ourselves, that it doesn’t occur to us to change the frame of the conversation. As Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, it’s important to find new ways to talk and think about things.

It’s sometimes difficult to justify doing an activity that isn’t related to work or achieving a specific goal, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, letting your mind wander and thinking of things other than your immediate task can be beneficial for your brain and your pursuits.

It can be difficult to understand how to navigate behavior when there is no direct cause and effect between what you’re doing and the impact you want to have. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, and Dr. Bob Duke, talk about why it’s important to take daily actions toward long-term goals.