Picking the Next President, Rejection, US Polarization

A Research-backed Guide to Picking the Next President  Dr. Craig Malkin is an Instructor in Psychology for Harvard Medical School. After teaching in local universities, Dr. Malkin became a Chief Psychologist at Harvard Medical School’s Cambridge Hospital, in Cambridge Massachusetts. He is the President and director of his own therapy and consulting company, YM Psychotherapy and Consultation, Inc., which he owns and operates with his wife, Dr. Jennifer Leigh. Dr. Malkin outlines the dos and don’ts of picking our next leader by helping us understand the good and bad traits of narcissism.  Listen to the interview here  Helping Your Family Deal With Rejection Holly Mendenhall is a graduate from the University of Montana with a degree in French. She spent a semester picking grapes at a winery in France. For a time, before her marriage, she owned and ran her own travel agency. She is the mother or three boys and the wife of BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall. Holly Mendenhall joins the show to talk about how to help families to better deal with rejection. Listen to the interview here   US Polarization  Dr. Michael Beam, received a PHD in communications from The Ohio State University. He is an Assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies at Kent State University. His research looks at impact of information systems using personalized algorithms on news exposure and health communication, the influence of partisan media sources on political polarization and political information processing, and how new media systems change information distribution patterns. Has worked in community radio for over a dozen years and produces a weekly radio show, The Beat Oracle. Dr. Beam and Dr. Townsend talk about the polarization of news and information in our country.  Listen to the interview here