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Egos and experiments
FromThe TLS Podcast
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Jan 17, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Boyd Tonkin states the case – never overstated – for literature in translation, and reviews a commendable recent effort "to grasp, and to survey, the entire planet of words"; Andrew Scull considers the travails of social psychology and the egos and experiments that professed to tell us something essential about human nature by setting fire to forests or electrocuting dogs... Books Found in Translation: 100 of the finest short stories ever translated, edited by Frank WynneThe Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment by Gina Perry The Hope Circuit: A psychologist’s journey from helplessness to optimism by Martin Seligman
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Released:
Jan 17, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Robert Herrick and John Evelyn: Michael Caines reads a selection of verses by the seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick, as well as a remarkable and little-known elegy by the diarist John Evelyn. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and... by The TLS Podcast