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| | | Prof Raj Persaud explores the limits and potential of the mind, revealing the latest research and bringing together experts and commentators from the worlds of psychiatry, psychology and mental health.
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"All in the Mind provides a unique chance to meet the people at the cutting edge of research and developments on all aspects of the mind and brain from around the world. Please join me as we attempt to illuminate the most complex and least understood mechanism we have so far found in the Universe - the mind."
Prof. Raj Persaud
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THE ART OF PERSUASION
Is it possible to manipulate our thoughts?
Raj Persaud talks to Jez Rose , a mind-reading entertainer, who demonstrates his act and discusses how it works.
To consider the other, more sinister, side to mind manipulation, Raj Persaud is also joined by Dr Kathleen Taylor, the author of a new book called Brain-washing , which brings together the worlds of neuro science and social psychology.
POLITICAL INTERVIEWS
In this election period we will see and hear even more of our politicians, often during interviews. There is a commonly held belief that in these interviews politicians actually spend as much time evading questions as answering them. But is that really the case and, if so, how do they avoid answering the question?
Dr Peter Bull from the Department of Psychology at York University talks about his new findings on the frequency and type of evasion techniques used by politicians, based on his 'microanalysis' of political interviews?
COUNTRY MUSIC and SUICIDE
Country music is traditionally perceived as downbeat and the lyrics often tell tales of woe but could its pessimistic themes actually have harmful psychological effects?
Sociologists James Gundlach of Auburn University in Alabama and Steven Stack of Wayne State University in Michigan have just won the Ig Noble award for unusual scientific research for work they carried out on The Effect of Country Music on Suicide .
Having noticed that Nashville, the 'home' of Country music in Tennessee, had higher suicide rates than expected, they decided to look at other cities and found that cities with radio stations playing more than the average amount of such music also had higher than average suicide rates.
Raj Persaud speaks to Professor James Gundlach about their findings.
Additional information
Jez Rose
Mind Reader and Psychological Consultant
Dr Kathleen Taylor
Research scientist affiliated to Oxford's Department of Physiology,
University Laboratory of Physiology
Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192804960
Dr Peter Bull
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of York
The Microanalysis of Political Communication: Claptrap and Ambiguity
Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Lt
ISBN: 041527382X
Prof James Gundlach
Sociologist, Auburn University, Alabama
The Effect of Country Music on Suicide
Jim Gundlach and Steven Stack
Social Forces, Volume: 71. Issue: 1. Publication Year: 1992.
Page Number: 211.
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RELATED LINKS
Mental Health Foundation
Mind
SANE
Department of Health
BBC Health
BBC Health - Mental Health
Reith Lectures 2003: The Emerging Mind
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