This is Episode 11 of PsychCrunch the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, sponsored by Routledge Psychology. Download here.
Can psychology help us get a better night’s sleep? Our presenter Ginny Smith hears how worry about sleep is sometimes more of a problem than lack of sleep itself. She gives us some evidence-backed sleep tips and finds out about “sleep engineering” – deliberately manipulating the sleep process to aid memory and enhance its health benefits.
Our guests are Professor Kenneth Lichstein at the University of Alabama and Professor Penny Lewis at the University of Cardiff.
Background reading for this episode:
- “Insomnia identity” – misbelieving you’ve got sleep problems can be more harmful than actual lack of sleep
- BBC News: Sleep engineering: Cardiff scientists working on designer rest
- Targeted memory reactivation of newly learned words during sleep triggers REM-mediated integration of new memories and existing knowledge
Also, find many more studies on sleep and dreaming in our archive.
Episode credits: Presented and produced by Ginny Smith. Mixing Jeff Knowler. PsychCrunch theme music Catherine Loveday and Jeff Knowler. Art work Tim Grimshaw.
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Past episodes:
Episode one: Dating and Attraction.
Episode two: Breaking Bad Habits.
Episode three: How to Win an Argument.
Episode four: The Psychology of Gift Giving.
Episode five: How To Learn a New Language.
Episode six: How To Be Sarcastic 😉
Episode seven: Use Psychology To Compete Like an Olympian.
Episode eight: Can We Trust Psychological Studies?
Episode nine: How To Get The Best From Your Team
Episode ten: How To Stop Procrastinating
PsychCrunch is sponsored by Routledge Psychology.
Routledge interviewed PsychCrunch presenter Christian Jarrett about the aims of the podcast and engaging with the public about psychology research.
It is an iteresting episode. In fact sleeping is like switching off your computer. As we know computer is a hardware and software. Body is the hardware and mind is tje software. Sometimes the computer can not be switched off due to a hardware or software. Sleeping well need a healthy body and quiet mind. Having quiet mind needs a process of saving good thoughts ,ideas,…etc. and deleting harmful thoughts, feelings..,etc. So keep your computer in a good staye.
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