Podcast Episodes
Back to Search284 - Awe - Dacher Keltner (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with psychologist Dacher Keltner, one of the world’s leading experts on the science of emotion, the man Pixar hired to he…
1 year, 11 months ago
283 - Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy
In this episode we welcome psychologist Mary C. Murphy, author of Cultures of Growth, who tells us how to create institutions, businesses, and other …
1 year, 11 months ago
282 - They Thought We Were Ridiculous - Andy Luttrell
In 1974, two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, as the New Yorker once put it, "changed the way we think about the way we think." The p…
1 year, 11 months ago
281 - More Chat, Less Bot - Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, Henrik Werdelin
Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, and Henrik Werdelin sit down to discuss the surprising results of a new study into what happens when groups of people work …
2 years ago
280 - Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg
Our guest in this episode is Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer for the New Yorker Magazine who is also the New York Time…
2 years ago
YANSS 279 - Pluralistic Ignorance (rebroadcast)
There are several ways to define pluralistic ignorance, and that’s because it’s kind of a brain twister when you try to put it into words. On certain…
2 years, 1 month ago
278 - An Admirable Point - Florence Hazrat
On this episode we learn about the history of the exclamation point, the question mark, and the semicolon (among many other aspects of language) with…
2 years, 1 month ago
277 - Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin (rebroadcast)
Temple Grandin didn’t develop speech until much later than most children, and she might have led a much different life if it hadn’t been for people w…
2 years, 2 months ago
276 - How to Stand up to a Bully - Andrea Chalupa
In this episode David McRaney is interviewed by Andrea Chalupa about the psychological research covered in How Minds Change that could help if you ex…
2 years, 2 months ago
275 - Blight - Emily Monosson
How likely is the fungal infection in The Last of Us? The one that takes over human brains and brings humanity to the brink of extinction, could some…
2 years, 2 months ago