Inked Psycho Podcast
Psychologist Matt Hegan interviews guests from New Zealand and beyond to explore mental health strategies, behaviour change and emotional wellbeing in Aotearoa.
Dr. Rebecca Sargisson is a behavior analyst whose career in research has taken her from chicken labs to war zones to climate psychology in the Netherlands.
A candid, surprising conversation about risk, behaviour change, and why humans are a lot more like dogs (and pigeons) than we’d like to admit.
In this conversation:
🔹 Why an entire UN landmine-detection program had to be shut down
🔹 Bees, elephants, and giant rats: the strange animals being trained to detect landmines and disease
🔹 Why playgrounds have gotten “too safe”, and what kids lose because of it
🔹 The behaviourist case that your attitudes don’t shape your behaviour- your behaviour shapes your attitudes
🔹 Why demographics barely predict who cares about the environment
🔹 How AI is quietly eroding critical thinking in university students
A wide-ranging conversation about risk, behavior change, and what actually drives human (and animal) decision-making.
The Inked Psycho podcast (on all your favourite platforms AND YouTube) is hosted by me, psychologist Matt Hegan, featuring in-depth conversations with experienced psychologists, researchers, and clinicians about what they’ve learned from their careers working with people.
Guests have included forensic psychologists who’ve studied psychopathic offenders, behaviour analysts working on landmine detection, and child psychologists reflecting on 30+ years in the field.
Each episode digs into their specialist areas — mental health, risk, diagnosis, trauma, meaning-making — through the lens of someone who’s spent a career studying it.