Can the Mind Understand Itself? | The Psychology of Psychology

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-10-07

Can the mind understand itself? Settle into The Psychology of Psychology, a thoughtful sleep story about how psychology learned to question its own methods, assumptions and ways of understanding the human mind. William James finishes a founding textbook and wonders whether psychology is a science at all. Researchers discover that their expectations can find their way into an experiment. Volunteers keep adding numbers and tearing up the answers, convinced that the task must have a purpose. Tonight we follow psychology as it learns to question itself. From Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory to Martin...