36 — What impact has psychology had on L&D?
Mar 14, 2017
Most of us working in L&D will have come across pop psychology in one form or another, but what are the actual psychological insights that can guide our practice? On this week's episode of the GoodPractice Podcast, Sukh Pabial joins Owen and Ross to share his thoughts on psychology and behavioural economics.
If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find
us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @owenferguson, and @SukhPabial.
You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus.
Sukh's Moana video can be seen
here: http://www.ellentv.com/videos/0-n0s4vtdw/
His less cheery dystopian article is available from The
Guardian at:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage.
Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein is available from
Amazon at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/0141040017
The Guardian's podcast episode on nudge theory is
available from: https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2017/feb/22/nudge-theory-the-psychology-and-ethics-of-persuasion-science-weekly-podcast
And Freakonomics have also covered this,
which you can find here: http://freakonomics.com/tag/david-halpern/
The dates Ross used to describe the division of the Bible into
chapters were wildly inaccuarte. Wikipedia has an interesting page
on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible