Climate Conversation, Stress-Proof Brain, Smartphone Shyness

How to Talk Climate Change Across the Aisle (17:05) Thomas Bateman is a Professor of Management at the University of Virginia. Professor Bateman specializes in organizational behavior. He conducts research on leadership, problem-solving, motivation, decision making, personality, stress, and managerial goals. Current research projects focus on behavior and decision making in the domain of climate change. For all the hot air expended on the subject, we still don’t know how to talk about climate change. Thomas Bateman discusses how to talk climate change across the aisle. The Stress-Proof Brain (1:06:38) Dr. Melanie Greenberg is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, and EMDR Practitioner trained for Trauma, Schema Therapy, and Mindfulness.  She is the author of the book “The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity. She is also a media expert on relationships and stress. Let’s face it- modern times are stressful. Between the mad dash to meetings, the dreaded daily commute, tragedy in the news, and the constant need to do and have more, you may be feeling wound up, irritable, and out of balance. Unfortunately, you can’t always avoid the things that stress you out. But you can control how you respond to stress before it takes over your life. Dr. Melanie Greenberg talks with us about a breakthrough process that will help us put a stop to some of our unhealthy stress responses.  Caitlin Thomas - Decluttering our Digital Lives (1:30:17) Technology has a dramatic influence on our daily lives. We depend on technology in our professional lives to complete essential job functions and rely on digital devices in our personal lives to stay connected with the outside world. But, sometimes this leads to us making less human connections and more technology dependency. Caitlin Thomas is here with us this morning to talk about how we can help keep our connections meaningful and our digital media organized Is Your Smartphone Making You Shy? (1:52:56) Dr. Joe Moran is a cultural historian and professor of English and cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of several books including his most recent, Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness. If you look around, I’m guessing the majority of the people you see will either be texting, watching a video, making a phone call or having their cell phones sitting in front of them on their desk. It’s pretty hard to live in a world and country like ours without a cell phone these days. It seems a lot of people are saying that technology like this can make us more and more antisocial, though. But is this true? Liverpool John Moores University’s professor of English and Cultural History, Dr. Joe Moran, joins us today to discuss his article, “Is Your Smartphone Making You Shy?”