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Alex Edmans on Market Irrationality

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Rafael Schacter on Graffiti

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Ariel Kalil on Parents' Role in Child Development

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Mahzarin Banaji on Social Cognition

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Daniel Yon on the Brain as Scientist

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Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect

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Ellora Derenoncourt on the US Racial Wealth Gap

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Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge

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Mukulika Banerjee on Indian Democracy

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Paul Bloom on Empathy

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Devyani Sharma on Accents

12

Frank Keil on Causal Thinking

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Setha Low on Public Spaces

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Victor Buchli on Life in Low-Earth Orbit

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Ramanan Laxminarayan on Antibiotic Use

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Leor Zmigrod on the Ideological Brain

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David Autor on the Labor Market

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Bruce Hood on the Science of Happiness

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Jens Ludwig on American Gun Violence

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Crystal Abidin on Influencers

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Katy Milkman on How to Change

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Janet Currie on Improving Our Children's Futures

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Joshua Greene on Effective Charities

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Julia Ebner on Violent Extremism

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Nick Camp on Trust in the Criminal Justice System

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Daron Acemoglu on Artificial Intelligence

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Iris Berent on the Innate in Human Nature

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Megan Stevenson on Why Interventions in the Criminal Justice System Don't Work

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Rob Ford on Immigration

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Tavneet Suri on Universal Basic Income

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Alex Edmans on Confirmation Bias

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Alison Gopnik on Care

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Tejendra Pherali on Education and Conflict

34

Safiya Noble on Search Engines

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Dimitris Xygalatas on Ritual

36

Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 5: A Social Science Bites Retrospective

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Deborah Small on Charitable Giving

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Hal Hershfield on How We Perceive Our Future Selves

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Melissa Kearney on Marriage and Children

40

Raffaella Sadun on Effective Management

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Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight

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Heaven Crawley on International Migration

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Shinobu Kitayama on Cultural Differences in Psychology

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Petter Johansson on Choice Blindness

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Ayelet Fishbach on Goals and Motivation

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Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics and Educational Attainment

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David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect

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Claudia Goldin on the Gender Pay Gap

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Will Hutton on the State of Social Science

50

Batja Mesquita on Culture and Emotion

51

Bobby Duffy on Generation Myths

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Gerd Gigerenzer on Decision Making

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Ellen Peters on Numeracy

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Jonathan Haskel on Intangibles

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Sheila Jasanoff on Science and Technology Studies

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John List on Economic Field Experiments

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Kathelijne Koops on Chimps and Tools

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George Loewenstein on Hot and Cold Affect

59

Joel Mokyr on Economic Lessons from the Past

60

Karin Barber on Verbal Arts

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Melanie Simms on Work

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Jeffrey Ian Ross on Convict Criminology

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Molefi Kete Asante on Afrocentrism

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Jennifer Richeson on Perceptions of Racial Inequality

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Jennifer Lee on Asian-Americans

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Martha Newson on Identity Fusion

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Olivier Sibony on Decision-Making

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Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 4

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Jim Scott on Resistance

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Michèle Lamont on Stigma

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Diego Gambetta on Signaling Theory

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Mike Tomasello on Becoming Human

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Belinda Winder on Pedophilia

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Salma Mousa on Contact Theory (and Football)

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Alondra Nelson on Genetic Testing

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Heidi Larson on Vaccine Skepticism

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Sherman James on John Henryism

78

Gurminder K Bhambra on Postcolonial Social Science

79

Ashley Mears on the Global Party Circuit

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Anne Case on Deaths of Despair

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Hetan Shah on Social Science and the Pandemic

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Ruth Wodak on How to Become a Far-Right Populist

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Richard Layard on Happiness Economics

84

Susan Michie on Behavioral Change

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Rupert Brown on Henri Tajfel

86

Michele Gelfand on Social Norms

87

Shona Minson on Children of Imprisoned Mothers

88

Harvey Whitehouse on Rituals

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Kayleigh Garthwaite on Foodbanks

90

Jonathan Portes on the Economics of Immigration

91

Sam Friedman on Class

92

Monika Krause on Humanitarian Aid

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Erica Chenoweth on Nonviolent Resistance

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Gina Neff on Smart Devices

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Les Back on Migrants

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David Halpern on Nudging

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James Robinson on Why Nations Fail

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Nick Adams on Textual Analysis

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Andrew Leigh on Randomistas

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Diane Reay on Education and Class