Keyword: behavior

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What Drives Us with Nick Papadopoulos January 15, 2014

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Nick Papadopoulos
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Early childhood wounds quietly shape adult behavior. Nick Papadopoulos, Success Counselor, joins Armand DiMele to map how formative events between ages 5 and 20 generate core beliefs like “I don’t belong” that drive adult behavior, and how four personality types (controller, promoter, supporter, analyzer) reveal what we’re really chasing.

Reading People Between the Lines July 2, 2009

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Armand DiMele argues that the small, offhand things people say reveal far more than we let ourselves notice, especially when loneliness or desire clouds our judgment. The episode moves from reading red flags in new relationships to the nocebo effect, body dysmorphia, and culture-bound psychiatric syndromes from Haiti to India.

How Genes Shape Who We Are December 13, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti
Category: Identity & The Self, The Mind & Neuroscience

Some people are wired to seek more risk, more novelty, more intensity, and it comes down to gene length. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti break down how dopamine receptor efficiency, inherited through long or short gene sequences, shapes attention, risk-taking, sexuality, and vulnerability to addiction, and how stress hormones can actually switch genes on and off.