Episode #27 with Special Guest Nick Brown
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In this episode we are joined by another guest, Nick Brown. Nick is currently a PhD student at the University of Groningen and he blogs at http://steamtraen.blogspot.co.uk/. Nick chats with us about some of his work in relation to criticising positive psychology (Critical positivity ratio). Nick has just hit the headlines again with his analysis of the work of Professor Brian Wansink (https://www.theguardian.com/science/h...). And we hope to have him back on soon, to continue the interesting discussion.
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