Blue Light and our Bodies, Wrong Personality for the Job

Blue Light and our Bodies, Wrong Personality for the Job

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 7, Episode 149

  • Jun 22, 2018 1:00 pm
  • 1:34:21 mins

Blue Light and our Bodies (15:43) Dr. Geoffrey Goodfellow is an Associate Professor, Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Assessment; Coordinator and Private Practice Clerkship at Illinois College of Optometry. Dr. Goodfellow has served as the site coordinator for the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigators Group as well as the chief of the Pediatrics/Binocular Vision Service. Apple recently released some new products with new features. Among these were a new iPad Pro and a new iPhone. These products come with many features, one of which is a new lighting technology called “Night Shift”. “Night Shift” changes the lighting on the phone to produce less blue light so as to help users go to sleep easier. But will it really work? Dr. Goodfellow explains. Wrong Personality for the Job (1:01:55) Anna Hartley, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research scientist who works on personality judgement and measurement. She works for the psychology department at Wake Forest University. Her research looks into how we perceive people and how we form judgements about others because of these perceptions and how to measure behaviors over time. Her work focuses on the importance of people and relationships.

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