Podcast Episodes
Back to Search21 | Resisting narratives that justify inequality
Episode 22
What makes systemic inequality such a hard problem to tackle?
We sit down with cognitive anthropologist Angarika Deb and cognitive psychologist Ákos …
1 year, 6 months ago
20 | How do emotions impact cognition?
Episode 21
What are emotions and how do they impact cognition? We sit down with philosopher Juliette Vazard to talk about what we can learn from our emotions, t…
1 year, 6 months ago
19 | Manipulating memory: How event structure impacts recall
Episode 20
Does everybody experience memory in the same way? We sit down with Andreas Arslan to chat about what we spontaneously imagine when we read or activel…
1 year, 7 months ago
18 | How do we construct our realities?
Episode 19
How do we use symbols to construct and reconstruct our internal realities? We sit down with two new cohosts of The Monkey Dance, Mariem Diané and Xue…
1 year, 7 months ago
17 | Does imagination help us learn about the world?
Episode 18
Why do we have imagination? We sit down with philosopher Maria Fedorova to chat about what imagination is, ways to describe imagination as a process …
1 year, 8 months ago
16 | Can we increase democratic empowerment through decentralization?
Episode 17
How can we balance knowledge transfer and democratic empowerment? We sit down with Kristina Vasić and Ákos Szegőfi in a wide ranging discussion about…
1 year, 9 months ago
15 | On Nostalgia: Memory, personal histories, and decolonizing narratives
Episode 16
What is the function of nostalgia? We sit down with Manu Sharma and talk about what makes a memory, what functions thinking about the past serves, an…
1 year, 9 months ago
14 | Elements of thought: Carving out reality through conceptual engineering
Episode 15
How does the engineering of concepts impact how we think about them? We sit down with Bojin Zhu to discuss what makes a concept, how concepts change …
1 year, 10 months ago
13 | On Collaboration: How we work together on convergent goals
Episode 14
How is it that human beings achieve collaboration? We sit down with Arianna Curioni and chat about the cognitive science of joint action in its many …
1 year, 11 months ago
12 | How long have humans being lying?
Episode 13
What differentiates lying from other examples of communicative intent? We sit down with Akos Szegofi and talk about misinformation, institutional tru…
1 year, 11 months ago