#bodymindself

Q&A: "I’m a bit of a perfectionist in that I want the quality of what I do to be good, however at the same time I don’t want to wait endlessly to develop my business and reach people. Any advice?" More here: http://jfl.com/x/im-a-bit-of-a-perfectionist-in-that-i-want-the-quality-of-what-i-do-to-be-good-however-jfl-bodymindself

Q&A: "I like to be there for people and help them but I’m not good at saying no and often put myself last and others first." More here: http://jfl.com/x/i-like-to-be-there-for-people-and-help-them-but-im-not-good-at-saying-no-jfl-bodymindself

Q&A: "I have some goals that I’m determined to achieve but I feel like I’m getting in my own way. Success matters to me so much." More here: http://jfl.com/x/i-have-some-goals-that-im-determined-to-achieve-but-i-feel-like-im-getting-in-my-own-way-jfl-bodymindself

Q&A: "I’ve often heard you say that you are not your thoughts- I sometimes feel like I am though!" More here: http://jfl.com/x/ive-often-heard-you-say-that-you-are-not-your-thoughts-i-sometimes-feel-like-i-am-though-jfl-bodymindself

Q&A: "After a rather stressful period in my life I’ve been trying to relax more but it’s not going so well: any advice appreciated." More here: http://jfl.com/x/ive-been-trying-to-relax-more-but-its-not-going-so-well-jfl-bodymindself

In this eight episode of the bodymindself™ podcast psychologist and cognitive scientist John Francis Leader (JFL) meets Professor of Creative Technologies Aljosa Smolic to discuss the relationship between technology and creativity. Professor Aljosa Smolic is the Professor of Creative Technologies at Trinity College Dublin. Before joining Trinity, Prof. Smolic was with Disney Research Zurich as Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Advanced Video Technology group, and with the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz- Institut (HHI), Berlin, also heading a research group as Scientific Project Manager. At Disney Research he led over 50 industrial R&D projects that have resulted in technology transfers to a range of Disney business units. They include film studios, TV broadcasters, consumer products and are used in professional production today. Prof Smolic is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and served as Guest Editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on CSVT, IEEE Signal Pr

Q&A: "I’m finding the news and other media to be a bit overwhelming but I don't want to be disconnected either- any advice?" More here:

Q: I want to be confident socially but am afraid that it will come across as arrogance- any advice?! A: I explore the difference between confidence and arrogance. More here: http://jfl.com/x/i-want-to-be-confident-socially-but-am-afraid-that-it-will-come-across-as-arrogance-jfl-bodymindself

Q: I’ve a number of life decisions to make and I’m finding that I’m getting lost in thought and worry- have you any advice? A: I explore ways to unload the mind whilst still remaining focused on what needs to get done. More here: http://jfl.com/x/im-getting-lost-in-thought-and-worry-have-you-any-advice-jfl-bodymindself

Q: What's to be taken from Ready Player One? A: Quite a bit: I speak about immersion, avatars, self-concept and the importance of equilibration. More here: https://jfl.com/x/whats-to-be-taken-from-ready-player-one-jfl-bodymindself-qanda

Spin 103.8 radio feature on workplace anxiety with JFL & Lauren Kelly broadcast 21st February 2018

Spin 103.8 radio feature on Therapy Of Tomorrow with JFL and Lauren Kelly broadcast 12th January 2018 - Find out more here: https://jfl.com/blog/the-therapy-of-tomorrow-initiative-lets-crowdsource-therapy-using-multimedia/

Q102 feature on the Therapy of Tomorrow with JFL, Scott Williams & Venetia Quick 4/1/18 - Find out more here: https://jfl.com/blog/the-therapy-of-tomorrow-initiative-lets-crowdsource-therapy-using-multimedia/

In this seventh episode of the bodymindself™ podcast psychologist and cognitive scientist John Francis Leader (JFL) meets psychologist Dr Brendan Rooney ( https://twitter.com/brenrooney ) to discuss the psychology of media and entertainment. Dr Brendan Rooney's research interests include how cognitive and emotional processes interact in the context of media, arts and entertainment. He has a strong interest in research design, methods and analysis and teaches on the research methods and statistics modules in the UCD School of Psychology where he also heads up the Media + Entertainment Lab. Through his research and teaching Dr Brendan Rooney has worked on a number of interdisciplinary and international research teams, with creative and entertainment industry experts (such as animators, filmmakers, and designers), philosophers, computer scientists and engineers, film and humanities scholars, and cognitive neuroscientists. Dr Brendan Rooney has previously lectured in the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design

In this sixth episode of the bodymindself™ podcast psychologist and cognitive scientist John Francis Leader (JFL) meets cognitive science researcher Abeba Birhane ( https://twitter.com/Abebab https://abebabirhane.wordpress.com/ ) to discuss the topics of relational & interdisciplinary thinking. The bodymindself™ podcast, newly launched in 2017, is an ongoing series of conversations between JFL and others on the topics of applied psychology and cognitive science, experiential learning, perception, virtual and mixed reality, embodiment, mental processes and identification. The aim of the series is to include the voices of people from very diverse backgrounds, ranging from academia to those working on the frontline in applied fields, with the hope of gaining an even greater systematic understanding of the topics being explored. All references and views expressed are those of the person who expressed them and not necessarily those of JFL. Your comments, shares, likes and dislikes are very welcome and will help

Spin 103.8 feature on the science of horror movies with Gordon Hayden, JFL & Lauren Kelly - aired on 27/10/17

Spin 103.8 radio feature on graphic content in the media with JFL and Lauren Kelly broadcast 18th August 2017

Spin 103.8 radio feature on lending money to friends with JFL and Lauren Kelly aired on 2nd August 2017

Spin 103.8 radio feature on crying with JFL and Lauren Kelly broadcast on 14th July 2017

In this fifth episode of the bodymindself™ podcast psychologist and cognitive scientist John Francis Leader (JFL) meets Professor J. Scott Jordan to discuss the topics of self and volition, or conscious will. J. Scott Jordan’s research focuses on volition and its relationship to consciousness. He received his PhD in cognitive psychology and the neurophysiological basis of perception at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois in 1991. His dissertation addressed the relationship between voluntary eye-movements and spatial perception. In 1992 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellowship and spent a year in Prof. Dr. Hans Kornhuber’s neurophysiology lab at the University of Ulm in Germany studying the relationship between event-related brain potentials and memory and attention. In 1998-1999 he spent a year at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, Germany studying the relationship between action planning and spatial perception, and in 2006, spent a semester