Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#117: Happiness As a Tool for Behavior Change with Liz Dunn & Jiaying Zhao
Season 8 Episode 9
Elizabeth Dunn and Jiaying Zhao are professors at the University of British Columbia, where they study social psychology and climate behavioral scien…
6 hours ago
#116: Change Beliefs, Change Opinions? with Yamil Velez
Season 8 Episode 8
Yamil Velez is an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University, where he studies what makes political opinions hard to shift. He’s…
4 weeks ago
#115: Raising Color-Conscious Kids with Sylvia Perry
Season 8 Episode 7
Sylvia Perry is a social psychologist and Associate Professor at Northwestern University, where she directs the Social Cognition and Social Identity …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
#114: Making Immigration Popular with Alex Kustov
Season 8 Episode 6
Alex Kustov studies public opinion about immigration—why it’s so durable, why it becomes so politically explosive, and what (if anything) can make it…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Introducing Mind Games
I'm excited to share a preview of a new podcast I think you’d enjoy: Mind Games.
What if you could hypnotize yourself into a better you? Or.... secret…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
#113: Psychology in the Age of AI with Steve Rathje
Season 8 Episode 5
Steven Rathje is a postdoc at New York University and an incoming assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He studies the psychology of tec…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
#112: Thinking Categorically with Greg Murphy
Season 8 Episode 4
Greg Murphy studies the psychology of concepts. How do we use language to understand things, and how do we sort the world into categories? In our con…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
#111: You Don't Know What You Like with Paul Eastwick & Eli Finkel
Season 8 Episode 3
Paul Eastwick and Eli Finkel are two social psychologists who study the gears and levers of romantic relationships. What do people find attractive in…
6 months ago
#110: The Value of Entertainment with Sara Grady
Season 8 Episode 2
Sara Grady studies the function of entertainment—why we watch, play, and listen to the media that fill our lives. She's an assistant professor of Com…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
#109: The Realities of Political Persuasion with David Broockman
Season 8 Episode 1
David Broockman is a political scientist at UC Berkeley who digs into one of democracy’s core questions: can political messages really change minds? …
7 months, 3 weeks ago