In this podcast, Shankar Vedantam speaks with Professor Dan Gilbert about how we make decisions. This podcast covers how our emotions, thoughts or assumptions about the future, uncertainty, memory, and happiness can play into the decisions we make. Professor Gilbert reviews several research projects as examples of the phenomenon.
24 minutes
This is a 23:30 minute long TED Talk where Sheena Iyengar discusses how cultural standards shape our choices and decision making. She discusses American assumptions about choice, and examines the varying ways that context affects choices we make.
23 minutes 30 seconds
This is an 86 item test that will take approximately 10-25 minutes to complete. Based off of your answers, Psychology Today will categorize the responses to the big five personality trait characteristics. This test has statements like: "I am a cheerful person," which the test taker responds to with Likert scale options. As mentioned by Psychology Today: "This test is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional diagnosis or for the treatment of any health condition."
This podcast covers an interview with Jonah Berger, M.D where he briefly discusses his book Invisible Influence. Some of this podcast covers how me make decisions and certain choices, conformity, and what the role of mimicking is in our day to day interactions. Focus on the first seventeen minutes of the podcast.
27 minutes 28 seconds
Sex educator Yana Tallon-Hicks discusses her experiences as a sex educator in the United States. She covers the shortcomings of American sex education as compared to other countries, and overviews various studies about American youth, their pornographic content consumption, and messages that they receive from the porn. Tallon-Hicks advocates for extensive sexual education with a focus on communication and consent for American youth and provides examples from her own teaching.
17 mins 58 secs
A report by the Washington State Labor Education and Research Center that details the positive economic impacts unions have for Seattle workers (Based on gender, race, education, socioeconomic status).
Queer, working-class activist Amber L. Hollibaugh briefly discusses her life story and work with Queers for Economic Justice. Flanders and Hollibaugh discuss what a radical vision of the LGBTQ movement would entail. They examine how social movements like the LGBTQ movement are shaped by class and racial privilege and the importance of considering desire and the erotic in larger social justice movements.
19 minutes 38 seconds
Amber L. Hollibaugh: The LGBTQ Movement’s Radical Vision YouTube Link
This podcast covers an interview with Sociologist Tristan Bridges. They discuss Bridges' work in “A Very ‘Gay’ Straight?: Hybrid Masculinities, Sexual Aesthetics, and the Changing Relationship between Masculinity and Homophobia” (2014,) which is based off of research findings from a study of 63 men participating in three different group settings. Bridges discusses hybrid masculinities (Messner 1993) and sexual aesthetics which "refer to the cultural and stylistic distinctions that are used to create symbolic boundaries between gay and straight cultures and people..."
25 minutes 23 seconds
Podcast with Tristan Bridges on Hybrid Masculinities and Sexual Aesthetics
Vice library of gender non-conforming models in natural situations to represent members of the trans and non-binary community. This stock photo library was created for organizations and companies to utilize "non- cliche" images of trans and gender non-conforming individuals and relationships as a way to de-stigmatize trans* identities and images.
This 3:30 minute video accompanies "The Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary" and provides the context for the project. It illustrates the personal significance and cultural importance of trans/nonbinary visibility.
