Podcast: Berkeley Voices

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Mind & body

In some people, psychopathy goes undetected. A recent UC Berkeley study offers a solution.

By using a combination of methods tailored to the multidimensional nature of psychopathy, we could transform how we identify and understand this personality disorder, said Berkeley psychology professor and lead author Keanan Joyner.

Justin Davidson as a toddler smiles as he rides a horse and his mom smiles and holds him on the saddle.

Humanities

Berkeley Voices: One brain, two languages

Rachel Jeantel on the stand during her testimony in the trial of George Zimmerman

Humanities

Berkeley Voices: A language divided

Natalie walks on UC Berkeley's campus with her mom and younger brother.

Humanities

Berkeley Voices: A linguist’s quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish

Saagar, with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a powder blue suit, holds a viola to his chin while standing in a courtyard

Berkeley Voices: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects

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Berkeley Voices: Art student’s photo series explores masculine vulnerability

Black-and-white line drawing of Walter Gordon with a Cal football to his side

Berkeley Voices: Take the first Black history tour at UC Berkeley

A mother and baby chimp hug each other atop a wooden structure in a human-made habitat

Bonobos and chimps show ‘a rich recognition’ for long-lost friends and family

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Afterthoughts: The true origins of American immigration policy

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They built the railroad. But they were left out of the American story.

Timmia Hearn DeRoy

Theater as power: New professor brings Caribbean performance practice to Berkeley

a black-and-white photo of people at Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled people in the 1970s. A young man carries another young man while they laugh and as the shirtless director of the program looks on and campers in wheelchairs chat in the background.

Funky and free-spirited: How a 1970s summer camp started a disability revolution

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Berkeley Voices: How the Holocaust ends

a person looks at the camera through the sides of her eyes

Britt H. Young on learning to navigate the world with the body she has

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Gericault De La Rose knows who she is and won’t change for anyone

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Ali Bhatti on Ramadan and how his faith guided him through deep loss

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