#408 – The New Science of Physical Intelligence with Thalma Lobel PhD

Thalma Lobel, Ph.D. is the author of the 2014 book Sensation: The New Science of Physical Intelligence. Dr. Lobel is an internationally recognized psychologist and a professor at the School of Psychological Science at Tel Aviv University, where she is director of the child development center. She was the chairperson of the school of psychological sciences and a member of the executive board of the university. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Tufts, the University of California San Diego, and New York University. She divides her time between Tel Aviv and Southern California.

Check out the following Psychology CE Courses based on listening to Shrink Rap Radio interviews:
Jungian Psychotherapy Part 1 (6 CEUs)
Jungian Psychotherapy Part 2 (7 CEUs)
Jungian Psychotherapy Part 3 (7 CEUs)
Jungian Psychotherapy Part 4 (6 CEUs)
Jungian Psychotherapy Part 5 (7 CEUs)
Jungian Psychotherapy Package of the Five Above (33 CEUs)
Wisdom of The Dream (4 CEUs)
Positive Psychology (6 CEUs)
Pros and Cons of Positive Psychology (5 CEUs)
NEW! The Fundamentals of Positive Psychology (6 CEUs)
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (32 CEUs)
Body-Mind: Goodbye to Dualism (6 CEUs)
Brain: Insights from Neuroscience (8 CEUs)
Meditation & Psychotherapy (8 CEUs)
NEW! Crisis & Trauma: Identification, Assessment, & Treatment (15 CEUs)
Neuroscience and Healing (8 CEUs)
NEW! The Psychology of Relationships (7 CEUs)

Get our iPhone/Android app!

Get 10% discount on all lectures at The JungPlatform using our discount code: DRDAVE

You can also earn CEU’s by going to another partner website at Ed4Online!

A psychology podcast by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

1 Comment

Oskar on June 19, 2014 at 10:38 am

Interesting interview. I always love your shows in the ”physiological psychology” series (even though you would hate that name, I guess, reminiscent as it is of your dreadful first encounter with psych in college :))

Some of the findings should tie in nicely with my all time favorite Stephen Porges’ work and apply well to children and adults with so-called neuropsychiatric diagnoses, which often include hypersensitivity to environmental input. In the case with the warm cup I find the interpretation linking physical warmth to social warmth, and so suggesting an unconscious verbal—symbolic connection, a bit far-fetched. With dr Porges’ theories in mind, my layman guess would be that the warm cups simply calmed the participants’ nervous systems, perhaps by means of oxytocin, and so induced the relaxed, social neurophysiological state, which in turns increased agreeableness. Some other examples though were quite convincing, and fascinating, in suggesting a linguistic mechanism.

Oskar on June 19, 2014 at 10:38 am

Interesting interview. I always love your shows in the ”physiological psychology” series (even though you would hate that name, I guess, reminiscent as it is of your dreadful first encounter with psych in college :))

Some of the findings should tie in nicely with my all time favorite Stephen Porges’ work and apply well to children and adults with so-called neuropsychiatric diagnoses, which often include hypersensitivity to environmental input. In the case with the warm cup I find the interpretation linking physical warmth to social warmth, and so suggesting an unconscious verbal—symbolic connection, a bit far-fetched. With dr Porges’ theories in mind, my layman guess would be that the warm cups simply calmed the participants’ nervous systems, perhaps by means of oxytocin, and so induced the relaxed, social neurophysiological state, which in turns increased agreeableness. Some other examples though were quite convincing, and fascinating, in suggesting a linguistic mechanism.