In this episode, Peter Anderson had the privilege of interviewing Cynthia Meyersburg. Dr. Meyersburg is a research psychologist who earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010.  Her dissertation investigated the phenomenon of people thinking they had recovered memories from one or more past lives. 
Cynthia is fascinated by how people come to adopt unusual beliefs.  She has discussed her dissertation research on Big Picture Science.  She also has consulted and appeared as an expert on the Brainwashed episode of the Discovery Channel's Curiosity series. 
More recently, while she was a research fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Cynthia conducted research on the impact of trigger warnings.  Currently, she is teaching for the Harvard Extension School, which is the continuing education division of Harvard University.  This coming summer she will be teaching a course on Pseudoscience and Mental Health for the Harvard Summer School.

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