Podcast Episodes

Encore of Episode 32: The Scientific Process

There is a replication "crisis" in psychology: many findings simply do not replicate. Some critics take this as an indictment of the entire field — p…

9 years, 3 months ago

Episode 55: Snooki and the Handbag

Look down at what you're wearing. You picked out that blue shirt, right? And those boots — you decided on those because they're warm, didn't you? Wel…

9 years, 3 months ago

Episode 54: Panic in the Streets

It sounds like the plot of a movie: police discover the body of a young man who's been murdered. The body tests positive for a deadly infectious dise…

9 years, 3 months ago

Episode 53: Embrace the Chaos

Many of us spend lots of time and energy trying to get organized. We KonMari our closets, we strive for inbox zero, we tell our kids to clean their r…

9 years, 3 months ago

Episode 52: Losing Face

It happens to all of us: someone recognizes you on the street, calls you by name, and says hello... and you have no idea who that person is. Research…

9 years, 3 months ago

Episode 51: What Happened?

On the morning after election day, pundits, pollsters, politicians, and citizens woke up feeling stunned. All signs, all year, had been pointing towa…

9 years, 4 months ago

Encore of Episode 27: Losing Alaska

We didn't hear very much about climate change during this election cycle — and social science research might give us some insight as to why not. This…

9 years, 4 months ago

Episode 50: Broken Windows

In the early 1980s, a couple of researchers wrote an article in The Atlantic that would have far reaching consequences. The article introduced a new …

9 years, 4 months ago

Episode 49: Filthy Rich

Several years ago, sociologist Brooke Harrington decided to explore the secret lives of billionaires. What she found, she said, shocked her.

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9 years, 4 months ago

Episode 48: Men: 44, Women: 0

A century after women won the vote in the US, we still see very few of them in leadership roles. Researchers say women are trapped in a catch-22 know…

9 years, 5 months ago