Rebecca McInroy

We evolved to learn how to trust people, but we didn’t evolve in an environment with the Internet and AI, which means that it can be difficult for us to discern fact from fiction quickly. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Art Markman, Bob Duke, and Rebecca McInroy talk about what this means in terms of media and trust.

We’re not great at assessing risk, especially using ratios and percentages, but as Art Markman, Bob Duke, and Rebecca McInroy ask in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, does it matter?

Often, when we hear warning reports associated with certain foods or behaviors, we think we understand what is good or bad for us. However, as Art Markman, Bob Duke, and Rebecca McInroy discuss in this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, base rate neglect, we don’t have a clear understanding of what that means.

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!

In this fourth and final installment of the series, we take questions from the audience and discuss the idea of time running out, as well as rhythm and 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.

The third installment of the series looks at how interacting with art can influence how you understand and experience time, and we’ll talk about the relationship between pain and 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.

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.