Program: All In the Mind

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Sana Qadar

All in the Mind is an exploration of the mental: the mind, brain and behaviour — everything from addiction to artificial intelligence.

Airs Sunday 1pm. Repeated: Monday 1.30pm, Friday 2.30am.

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Searching for awe

Have you ever experienced the feeling of awe? Maybe it was sparked by an awesome view, a moving artwork or witnessing the birth of a child. Today we follow one person's attempt at finding awe when she's never felt it before.

Published: SatSat 11 May 2024 at 6:00pmwith Sana Qadar and Carl Smith

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Duration: 30 minutes 9 seconds

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How to help a conspiracy theorist: an ex believer and an expert weigh in

So you've got a loved one who's fallen deep down the conspiracy rabbit hole.

Cartoon artwork of many blue eyes looking in different directions.

Duration: 31 minutes 14 seconds

Published: 4 May 2024Sat 4 May 2024 at 6:00pmwith Sana Qadar

Stigma, shame and schizophrenia

Over the last couple of weeks, schizophrenia has been appearing in headlines across the country as details of the Bondi Junction attack unfold.

Two white speech bubbles on a pink and purple background. One bubble has a messy pile of string connected to the other.

Duration: 29 minutes 10 seconds

Published: 27 Apr 2024Sat 27 Apr 2024 at 6:00pmwith Sana Qadar

"Scarier than killer robots": why your mind isn't ready for AI

The AI revolution is coming. Your mind isn't ready for it. Cognitive Neuroscientist Joel Pearson walks us through the many ways artificial intelligence is messing — and will mess — with our psychology.

Digital artwork of a robot woman. You can see her robot shoulders and neck, with a human face, covered by a VR headset.

Duration: 29 minutes 25 seconds

Published: 20 Apr 2024Sat 20 Apr 2024 at 6:00pmwith Sana Qadar

Being a human lab rat for 30 years: what happens next

Researchers knew Susannah better than her own parents. They may have even known her better than herself. Today, how spending thirty years in a psychological study warped journalist Susannah Breslin's life.

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Duration: 29 minutes 6 seconds

Published: 13 Apr 2024Sat 13 Apr 2024 at 6:00pmwith Sana Qadar

Feature Articles

Fear killer robots? This expert believes you should be more worried about what AI is doing to your mind

While artificial intelligence promises to make life easier, the technology is already affecting our mental health and understanding of reality, warns one neuroscientist.

Published: 3 May 2024Fri 3 May 2024 at 2:36amby Anna Salleh and Sana Qadar

Susannah was the subject of research for 30 years. It cost her her 'private life'

From her early childhood well into adulthood, Susannah Breslin was studied by US researchers who became like parent figures to her. She has mixed feelings about the study's impact on her life.

Published: 22 Apr 2024Mon 22 Apr 2024 at 4:15amby Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Sana Qadar

The simple skills that can help you have deeper conversations

Author Charles Duhigg and broadcaster Beverley Wang have made a profession out of having good conversations. They share how deeper listening, laughing more, and slowing down can help.

A young woman faces another person, holding her hands and mouth in movement, as if in conversation.

Published: 17 Apr 2024Wed 17 Apr 2024 at 4:30amby Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Sana Qadar

When is a 'bad feeling' actually bad news? Psychologists say not everything is a coincidence

Less than an hour after Isla left a Mumbai cafe, it became a terrorist target. Did her intuition save her, and should we always trust that "sixth sense"?

Isla and Tegan in Leopold Cafe in 2008 before the attack

Published: 5 Mar 2024Tue 5 Mar 2024 at 12:19amby Anna Salleh, Sana Qadar and Rose Kerr

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