All Episodes

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