Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#72: Fighting Against Misinformation with Sander van der Linden
Season 5 Episode 9
Sander van der Linden studies the psychology of misinformation. He and his lab have conducted studies to understand why people believe false informat…
3 years, 4 months ago
#71: "Person" = "Man"? with April Bailey
Season 5 Episode 8
April Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire, and she studies the psychology of androcentrism—people’s ten…
3 years, 4 months ago
BONUS: "Best" of Opinion Science (2022)
Another year in the books! I don't think I ever really mastered writing the year as "2022," and now I have to write "2023." I'll figure it out one of…
3 years, 4 months ago
#70: A "Mixed" Bag with Geoff Durso
Season 5 Episode 7
Geoff Durso studies what happens when we face mixed information. When people do good things and bad things. When a product has positive and negative …
3 years, 4 months ago
#69: Directing Attention (and Other Lessons from the Science of Magic) with Anthony Barnhart (ft. Erik Tait)
Season 5 Episode 6
Tony Barnhart is Associate Professor of Psychological Science at Carthage College. But just as notably, he's a magician. As a result of this dual ide…
3 years, 5 months ago
#68: Intellectual Humility with Tenelle Porter
Season 5 Episode 5
Tenelle Porter is a new colleague of mine at Ball State University. She's an educational psychologist, and one of the things she studies is intellect…
3 years, 5 months ago
#67: Confronting Prejudice with Margo Monteith
Season 5 Episode 4
Margo Monteith is a Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. She studies how we can reduce prejudice in the world by c…
3 years, 6 months ago
#66: Your Language Shapes Your Opinions with Efrén Pérez
Season 5 Episode 3
Efrén Pérez is a professor is a professor of Political Science and Psychology at UCLA. He studies political attitudes and behaviors among various rac…
3 years, 6 months ago
Systemic Racism with Phia Salter (Rebroadcast)
This week, I'm out with COVID, so I'm re-sharing an early Opinion Science episode that has remained one of the most downloaded episodes of the show. …
3 years, 7 months ago
#65: Language is for Doing with Thomas Holtgraves
Season 5 Episode 2
Tom Holtgraves studies how language helps us do things. We use words to inquire, to instruct, to command, and to persuade. Words are social. He's cur…
3 years, 7 months ago