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Social Science Bites — 123 episodes
Mahzarin Banaji on Social Cognition
Daniel Yon on the Brain as Scientist
Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect
Ellora Derenoncourt on the US Racial Wealth Gap
Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge
Mukulika Banerjee on Indian Democracy
Paul Bloom on Empathy
Devyani Sharma on Accents
Frank Keil on Causal Thinking
Setha Low on Public Spaces
Victor Buchli on Life in Low-Earth Orbit
Ramanan Laxminarayan on Antibiotic Use
Leor Zmigrod on the Ideological Brain
David Autor on the Labor Market
Bruce Hood on the Science of Happiness
Jens Ludwig on American Gun Violence
Crystal Abidin on Influencers
Katy Milkman on How to Change
Janet Currie on Improving Our Children's Futures
Joshua Greene on Effective Charities
Julia Ebner on Violent Extremism
Nick Camp on Trust in the Criminal Justice System
Daron Acemoglu on Artificial Intelligence
Iris Berent on the Innate in Human Nature
Megan Stevenson on Why Interventions in the Criminal Justice System Don't Work
Rob Ford on Immigration
Tavneet Suri on Universal Basic Income
Alex Edmans on Confirmation Bias
Alison Gopnik on Care
Tejendra Pherali on Education and Conflict
Safiya Noble on Search Engines
Dimitris Xygalatas on Ritual
Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 5: A Social Science Bites Retrospective
Deborah Small on Charitable Giving
Hal Hershfield on How We Perceive Our Future Selves
Melissa Kearney on Marriage and Children
Raffaella Sadun on Effective Management
Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight
Heaven Crawley on International Migration
Shinobu Kitayama on Cultural Differences in Psychology
Petter Johansson on Choice Blindness
Ayelet Fishbach on Goals and Motivation
Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics and Educational Attainment
David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Claudia Goldin on the Gender Pay Gap
Will Hutton on the State of Social Science
Batja Mesquita on Culture and Emotion
Bobby Duffy on Generation Myths
Gerd Gigerenzer on Decision Making
Ellen Peters on Numeracy
Jonathan Haskel on Intangibles
Sheila Jasanoff on Science and Technology Studies
John List on Economic Field Experiments
Kathelijne Koops on Chimps and Tools
George Loewenstein on Hot and Cold Affect
Joel Mokyr on Economic Lessons from the Past
Karin Barber on Verbal Arts
Melanie Simms on Work
Jeffrey Ian Ross on Convict Criminology
Molefi Kete Asante on Afrocentrism
Jennifer Richeson on Perceptions of Racial Inequality
Jennifer Lee on Asian-Americans
Martha Newson on Identity Fusion
Olivier Sibony on Decision-Making
Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 4
Jim Scott on Resistance
Michèle Lamont on Stigma
Diego Gambetta on Signaling Theory
Mike Tomasello on Becoming Human
Belinda Winder on Pedophilia
Salma Mousa on Contact Theory (and Football)
Alondra Nelson on Genetic Testing
Heidi Larson on Vaccine Skepticism
Sherman James on John Henryism
Gurminder K Bhambra on Postcolonial Social Science
Ashley Mears on the Global Party Circuit
Anne Case on Deaths of Despair
Hetan Shah on Social Science and the Pandemic
Ruth Wodak on How to Become a Far-Right Populist
Richard Layard on Happiness Economics
Susan Michie on Behavioral Change
Rupert Brown on Henri Tajfel
Michele Gelfand on Social Norms
Shona Minson on Children of Imprisoned Mothers
Harvey Whitehouse on Rituals
Kayleigh Garthwaite on Foodbanks
Jonathan Portes on the Economics of Immigration
Sam Friedman on Class
Monika Krause on Humanitarian Aid
Erica Chenoweth on Nonviolent Resistance
Gina Neff on Smart Devices
Les Back on Migrants
David Halpern on Nudging
James Robinson on Why Nations Fail
Nick Adams on Textual Analysis
Andrew Leigh on Randomistas
Diane Reay on Education and Class
Mahzarin Banaji on Implicit Bias
Richard Wilkinson on How Inequality is Bad
Celia Heyes on Cognitive Gadgets
Alison Liebling on Successful Prisons
David Spiegelhalter on Communicating Statistics
Sander van der Linden on Viral Altruism
Melinda Mills on Sociogenomics
Jo Boaler on Fear of Mathematics
Bev Skeggs on Social Media Siloing
Sabina Alkire on Measuring Poverty
Tom Chatfield on Critical Thinking and Bias
Ioanna Palaiologou on Play
Al Roth on Matching Markets
Theresa Marteau on Healthy Environments
Mary Bosworth on Border Criminology
Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective, Part 3
Chris Grey on Organizations
Scott Atran on Sacred Values
Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 2
Gary King on Big Data Analysis
Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective
Michelle Baddeley on the Herd
Sandy Pentland on Social Physics
Jennifer Hochschild on Race in America
Anna Machin on Romance
Karenza Moore on Dance Culture