Guest: Roberta Maria Atti

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Why We Have Uncomfortable Emotions December 7, 2005

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Uncomfortable feelings like jealousy, disgust, and schadenfreude exist because they once helped us survive. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti apply evolutionary psychology to seven “deadly sentiments,” showing how emotions override rational thought to shift behavior instantly in the face of unforeseen threats or losses.

Why Humans Sing and Dance November 30, 2005

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Emotions did not arrive randomly but were shaped by evolution, starting with mate selection in lush early environments. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta trace how song and dance triggered the first feelings of love, expanded the human brain, and gave way to speech, testosterone, and the emotional complexity we carry today.

Mind Control and Possession November 16, 2005

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Identity & The Self

Cult tactics reveal how easily the mind surrenders its autonomy. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti walk through techniques like love bombing, confession, disinhibition, and time deprivation, showing how the same methods appear in malicious cults, EST training, casinos, and even well-meaning recovery programs.

How Mirror Neurons Shape Empathy Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Mirror neurons fire as if you are doing what you merely observe, and that single fact explains empathy, art, sports fandom, and psychic-seeming intuition. Armand and co-host Roberta Maria Atti trace the discovery from a researcher in Parma watching a monkey mimic his coffee sip, then connect it to personality types, great athletes, and the secret of why pizza vanishes at parties.

Fear Behind Every Difficult Behavior Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Anxiety & Fear, Emotions & Inner Life

Almost all erratic, confusing, or harmful human behavior traces back to fear. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti walk through the evolutionary roots of fear, its biochemistry, and how recognizing that someone is frightened rather than attacking changes everything about how we respond to them.

Paradoxes of Life Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Meaning, Spirituality & Philosophy, The Mind & Neuroscience

Every gain hides a hidden loss. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti work through paradoxes that riddle ordinary life: fame steals privacy, promotion costs friendship, and bariatric surgery that cures overeating often triggers alcoholism. Medical examples extend to antibiotics breeding resistant bacteria and asthma drugs correlating with rising asthma deaths.

Depression and the Alchemy of Transformation Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Depression & Mood, Meaning, Spirituality & Philosophy

Depression is not a problem to be suppressed but a transformative process, like bread being kneaded before it rises. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti trace alchemy from ancient Egypt and China through religious persecution to its core insight: that destruction and conflict are essential stages on the path to something higher.