Beyond The Present Podcast

  Steve Joordens is a professor of psychology at University of Toronto and chief science officer at Cogneeto Inc. and the instructor of the free Coursera course titled "Mind Control: Managing Your Mental Health During COVID-19". His research interest includes but not limited to Consciousness, memory, attention. In this episode of BTP we bring to you our conversation with Professor Steve Joordens regarding mental health during COVID-19 pandemic, its implications as well as ways to manage it. This conversation does not, by any means, exhaust the material in the course and you are encouraged to take part in this free course on Coursera. Coursera course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/manage-health-covid-19 Website: https://stevejoordens.ca/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stevejoordens Show Notes 00:21:00 - Leon Festinger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Festinger   Episode Transcript: ----more----   SUMMARY KEYWORDS people, anxiety, learn, feel, extreme, fight, body, talk, virus, pandemic, day,