The Nurture Effect

Episode # 37
Running time: 1:01:37
Podcast relevance: Professionals and Consumers
In this episode, Trent Codd interviews Anthony Biglan, Ph.D. the author of The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World.
Specifically, they discuss:

how to create family, school, workplace, and community environments that nurture wellbeing
the power a small set of core principles can have in preventing many mental health and behavioral problems
why and how capitalism has evolved in a direction that has increased economic inequality and poverty

Biography
Anthony Biglan, Ph.D. is a Senior Scientist at Oregon Research Institute. He has been conducting research on the development and prevention of child and adolescent problem behavior for the past 30 years. His work has included studies of the risk and protective factors associated with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; high-risk sexual behavior; and antisocial behavior. He has conducted numerous experimenta