Can the Mind Understand Itself? | The Psychology of Psychology
Published: October 7, 2026
Duration: 44:21
Can the mind understand itself?
Settle into The Psychology of Psychology, a thoughtful sleep story about how psychology learned to question its own methods, assumptions and ways of understanding the human mind.
William James finishes a founding textbook and wonders whether psychology is a science at all. Researchers discover that their expectations can find their way into an experiment. Volunteers keep adding numbers and tearing up the answers, convinced that the task must have a purpose.
Tonight we follow psychology as it learns to question itself.
From Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory to Martin...
Settle into The Psychology of Psychology, a thoughtful sleep story about how psychology learned to question its own methods, assumptions and ways of understanding the human mind.
William James finishes a founding textbook and wonders whether psychology is a science at all. Researchers discover that their expectations can find their way into an experiment. Volunteers keep adding numbers and tearing up the answers, convinced that the task must have a purpose.
Tonight we follow psychology as it learns to question itself.
From Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory to Martin...