Critical Thinking Crisis, Humor and Health, Screen Cleaning

Critical Thinking Crisis, Humor and Health, Screen Cleaning

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 6, Episode 118

  • May 19, 2017 6:00 am
  • 2:20:53 mins

Emerging Crisis in Critical Thinking (15:54) Stephen Camarata, Ph. D.  is the Director of the Research Program in Communication & Learning at the John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development at Vanderbilt University. Does anyone else remember the days of Baby Mozart music and promises of baby geniuses? Well, those children are graduating high school now or attending college and, instead of a generation of super geniuses, many college students struggle with real world problem solving and critical thinking. Stephen Camarata explains his research.  Humor and Your Health? (1:04:38) Gil Greengross. Ph. D., is a Lecturer in Psychology at Aberystwyth University in Wales, of the United Kingdom. He is an evolutionary psychologist, studying the evolutionary roots of everyday behaviors and emotions. His main area of research focuses on the evolution of humor and laughter, what makes people laugh, and how humor is used in mating and mate choice. We have all heard the old saying "...