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Stanford Psychology Podcast — 175 episodes

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174 - Amit Goldenberg: Collective Emotions and Social Media (REAIR)

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173 - Juliana Schroeder: Mistakenly Seeking Solitude (REAIR)

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172 - Julia Chatain: Embodied Learning and Educational Technology in Mathematics and Beyond (REAIR)

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171 - Casey Kenyon Brown: Can Your Relationships Make You Depressed? (REAIR)

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170 - Marginalia Episode: Erica Bailey on Authenticity (REAIR)

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169 - Tamar Kushnir: The Power of Imagination

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168 - Robin Dunbar: How Many People Can You Be Friends With? (REAIR)

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167 - Nicky Sullivan: Bridging the Gap Between Academic Research and Real-World Impact

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166 - Steve Rathje: The Psychology of Virality

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165 – Ying Wong: From Cultural Psychology to Global Business

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164 - Susan Engel: Do We Become Less Curious As We Grow Older?

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163 - Roger Levy: The Science of Language in the Era of AI

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162 - Adam Benforado: How prioritizing kids benefits us all

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161 - Yuan Chang (YC) Leong: Emotional arousal & dynamic brain connectivity

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160 - Jennifer Hu: From Human Minds to Artificial Minds

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159 - Dawn Finzi: From Vision Neuroscience to ML Engineering (Psychologist in the Wild Series)

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158 - David Almeida: Can Stress Be Good For You?

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157 - Diyi Yang: Socially Aware Large Language Models

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156 - Katy Milkman: The Art and Science of Lasting Behavior Change

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155 - Julian Jara Ettinger: How we understand other minds

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154 - Judith Fan: The wonders of playing with blocks (REAIR)

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153 - Mike North: Too old, too young—Is ageism the last acceptable bias?

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152 - Laura Schulz: The journey of becoming a cognitive scientist and what babies and children have taught us about their cognition (REAIR)

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151 - Robert Hawkins: Language, Collaboration, and Social Reasoning

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150 - Kendrick Kay: Large-scale fMRI Datasets and What to Consider

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149 - Jenna Wells: How Micro-Moments of Connection Shape Health and Happiness

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148 - Dorsa Amir: How Culture Shapes Cognition

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147 - Geoff Hinton & Jay McClelland: Two AI Pioneers in Conversation

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146 - Alex Shaw: The Price of Neutrality

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145 - Marginalia Episode: Erica Bailey on Authenticity

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144 - Sandra Matz: AI, Social Media, And Data Privacy

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143 - Casey Kenyon Brown: Can Your Relationships Make You Depressed?

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142 - Meet the Hosts: Kate Petrova

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141 - Michael Schwalbe and Geoff Cohen: When Politics Trumps Truths

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140 - Julia Chatain: Embodied Learning and Educational Technology in Mathematics and Beyond

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139 - Susan Carey: Becoming a Cognitive Scientist

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138 - Hal Hershfield: Connecting with Your Future Self for a Better Tomorrow

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137 - Kelsey Lucca: Unpacking the Development of Exploration and Exploitation

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136 - Meet the Hosts: Bella Fascendini

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135 - Jake Quilty-Dunn: The Language of Thought Hypothesis in Cognitive Science

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134 - Lisa Damour: Inside Out 2 and the Science Of Teenage Emotions

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133 - Nicholas Shea: Concepts in Humans, Animals and Machines

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132 - Nilam Ram: Learning from The Human Screenome Project

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131 - Johannes Eichstaedt: Is Social Media to Blame for Mental Illness? (REAIR)

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130 - Laura Gwilliams: The Needles that Unraveled the Brain’s Language and What We Can Learn from Them

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129 - Paul van Lange: Trust, Cooperation, And Climate Change (REAIR)

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128 – Halie Olson: How our Brains Care About our Personal Interests

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127 - Guilherme Lichand: Remote Learning Repercussions

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126 - Michele Gelfand: Culture and Conflict

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125 - Marginalia Episode: Cristina Salvador on Cultural Psychology in Latin America

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124 - Oriel FeldmanHall: Punishment, Forgiveness, and Predicting Emotions

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123 - Jacqueline Gottlieb: Are You Curious About Curiosity?

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122 - Michal Kosinski: Studying Theory of Mind and Reasoning in LLMs.

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121 - Joshua Hartshorne: Does a Similar Native Tongue Speed Up English Learning for Kids?

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120 - Steve Fleming and Nadine Dijkstra: Distinguishing Imagination from Reality

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119 - Bryan Brown: Virtual Reality for Science Education

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118 - Josh Jackson: Morality, Culture, and Social Media

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117 - Sho Tsuji: A blueprint for modeling how babies acquire language

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116 - George Mashour: How Psychedelics Can Shed Light on Consciousness

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115 - Matt Abrahams: Think Faster, Talk Smarter

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114 REAIR SUMMER - Gillian Sandstrom: Talking to Strangers

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113 REAIR SUMMER - Jon Jachimowicz: Should You Follow Your Passion?

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112 REAIR SUMMER - Dacher Keltner: The Science of Awe

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111 REAIR SUMMER - Jay Van Bavel: The Power of Us

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110 REAIR SUMMER - James Gross: Building Emotion Regulation Skills During the Pandemic and Beyond

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109 REAIR SUMMER - Juliana Schroeder: Mistakenly Seeking Solitude

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108 REAIR SUMMER - Abigail Marsh: Surprising Predictors of Everyday Kindness

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107 REAIR SUMMER - Josh Greene: Cooperation, Charity, and Effective Giving

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106 - Amit Goldenberg: Collective Emotions and Social Media

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105 - Meet the Hosts: Eric Neumann on Podcasting and Studying Trust

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104 - Special Episode: Marginalia Science

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103 - Neil Lewis, Jr.: What Counts As Good Science?

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102 - Meet the Hosts: Joseph Outa's Journey Into Science Communication

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101 - Natasha Chaku: 100 Days of Adolescence

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100 - Paul Bloom: The Psychology of Everything

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99 - Deon Benton: What a Computational Model Can Tell Us About Babies' Inner (Moral) Life? (REAIR)

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98 - Shinobu Kitayama: A Cultural Psychology for the Whole World

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97 - Ovul Sezer: The Case for Sharing Good News (REAIR)

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96 - Jon Freeman: Reading Faces

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95 - Meet the Hosts: Anjie Cao and Her Path to Science Communication

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94 - Josh Greene: Cooperation, Charity, and Effective Giving

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93 - Moshe Hoffman: Altruism, irrationality, and the psychology of aesthetics

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92 - Paul van Lange: Trust, Cooperation, And Climate Change

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91 - Casey Lew-Williams: From Infant-directed Speech to Infant-directed Communication

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90 - Elliot Aronson: Cognitive Dissonance, Cooperation, And Juicy Stories About the History of Psychology

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89 - Edouard Machery: What Is a Replication? (REAIR)

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88 - Christina Barbieri: Do examples help students learn math?

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87 - Marilynn Brewer: Social Identity and Intergroup Conflict

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86 - Cameron Ellis: Using fMRI to study what it is like to be an infant

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85 - Wayne Wu: Attention, from a philosophical point of view

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84 - Martha Nussbaum: Justice for Animals

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83 - Dacher Keltner: The Science of Awe

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82 - Kimberly Chiew: How Do People Remember Election Night 2016?

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81 - Sa-Kiera Hudson: Social Dominance, Empathy, and Schadenfreude

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80 - Hu Chuan-Peng: Building Open Science in China

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79 - Delroy Paulhus: Psychopathy, Narcissism, Machiavellianism, Sadism (WITH TRANSCRIPT)

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78 - Laura Schulz: The journey of becoming a cognitive scientist and what babies and children have taught us about their cognition

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77 - Melissa Kibbe: How do infants represent objects and agents?

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76 - Robert Cialdini: A Life of Influence

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75 - Russ Poldrack: What can neuroimaging research tell us about the brain and why is reproducible neuroscience important?

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74 - Johannes Eichstaedt: Is Social Media to Blame for Mental Illness?

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73 - Juliana Schroeder: Mistakenly Seeking Solitude

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72 - Maria Arredondo: When babies need to learn two languages

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71 - Tessa West: Dealing with Toxic Coworkers

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70 - Julia Leonard: Young children's effort allocation and persistence in learning

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69 - Robin Dunbar: How Many People Can You Be Friends With?

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68 - Special Episode: Join the BTS Conference! (Big Team Science, not the K-pop band.)

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67 - Special Episode: Behind the Scenes of Paths to PhD

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66 - Shai Davidai: Pursuing Status in a Zero-Sum World

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65 - Viridiana Benitez: The Power of Predictability

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64 - Claude Steele: How Trust Reduces Stereotype Threat

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63 - Anne Scheel: Why Most Psychological Research Findings Are Not Even Wrong

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Quick Announcement

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62 - Carol Dweck & Matt Dixon: The Neuroscience of Intelligent Decisions

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61 - Chaz Firestone: Melting Ice With Your Mind

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60 - Robb Willer: Why Your Political Enemy Is Not as Violent as You Think

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59 - Kevin Binning: How to Foster Equity in College Science Courses

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58 - Susan Fiske: A Life of Studying Diversity and Stereotyping

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57 - Moira Dillon: Commonsense Psychology in Human Infants and Machines

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56 - Daniel Gilbert: Stumbling Into Psychology

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55 - Jordan Starck: How University Diversity Rationales Inform Student Preferences and Outcomes

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54 - Mina Cikara: Hate Crimes Against Minorities

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53 - Mimi Liljeholm: The Neuroscience of Agency, Learning, and How It Helps Us Understand AI

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52 - Jay Van Bavel: The Power of Us

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51 - Elika Bergelson: How Babies Learn Words

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50 - Michael Kraus: The US Is More Unequal Than You Think

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49 - Kurt Gray: Understanding Moral Disagreement

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48 - Nicholas Coles: Asking Big Question with Big-team Science

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47 - David Dunning: The Psychology of Trust and Unwarranted Cynicism

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46 - Marlone Henderson: The Burden and Benefits of Scheduling Time for Charity

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45 - Tiffany Brannon: Moving Toward More Inclusive Institutions through "Pride and Prejudice"

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44 - Lasana Harris: Moving Beyond Stereotypes When Encountering Strangers

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43 - Henrike Moll: The Nuances of Theory of Mind - How Young Children Understand Others' Perspectives and Beliefs

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42 - Anuj Shah: Knowledge of Strangers and Community Policing

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41 - Vanessa Bohns: You Have More Influence Than You Think

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40 - Ashley Thomas: How Children Use Saliva Sharing to Infer Close Relationships

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39 - Robert Rosenthal: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies And The Pygmalion Effect

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38 - Angie Johnston: How Studying Dogs (!) Helps Us Understand Human Social Learning

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37 - Molly Crockett: Moral Outrage, Trust During Covid, And Incentives in Academia

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36 - Gillian Sandstrom: Talking to Strangers

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35 - Diego Gambetta: Trust, Distrust, and Cynicism

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34 - Fiery Cushman: The Possibility of Violence

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33 - Jon Jachimowicz: Should You Follow Your Passion?

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32 - Ethan Kross: Why We Talk to Ourselves and How to Make Our Inner Voices Work in Our Favor

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31 - Tom Gilovich: Judging Individuals, Judging Groups

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30 - Claudia Haase: Emotion Regulation in Couples

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29 - Axel Cleeremans: The Study of Consciousness, Cognition, and Decision-Making

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28 - Kateri McRae: How Emotions are Generated

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27 - David Lagnado: How Causal Reasoning Can Help Us Make Better Judgments and Solve Criminal Cases

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26 - Richard Wilkinson: Inequality, Health, and Positive Psychology

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25 - Brian Nosek: The Pursuit of Open and Reproducible Science

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24 - Paul Rozin: Improving Psychology

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23 - Special Episode: What Is It Like to Get (Paid) Summer Research Experience at CSLI?

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22 - Kelly McGonigal: Communicating Psychology

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21 - James Gross: Building Emotion Regulation Skills During the Pandemic and Beyond

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20 - Jillian Jordan: Victimhood and Morality

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19 - Michal Strahilevitz: Teaching Happiness

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18 - Abigail Marsh: Surprising Predictors of Everyday Kindness

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17 - Scott Barry Kaufman: The Light Triad - A Psychology of Everyday Saints

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16 - Erin Westgate: Why People Would Rather Shock Themselves Than Sit Alone with Their Thoughts

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15 - Robert Sapolsky: Why Society Would Be Fairer If We Stopped Believing in Free Will

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14 - Alison Gopnik: How Can Understanding Childhood Help Us Build Better AI?

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13 - Wade Davis: A More Tolerant And Compassionate Mindset For Everyday Life

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12 - Tobias Gerstenberg: Whose Fault Is It? Causal Judgments in Everyday Life

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11 - Special Episode: The Past, Present and Future of the Paths to Ph.D. Event

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10 - Hyowon Gweon: What Makes Us So Good at Learning from Each Other?

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09 - Alan Fiske: The Problems with Labeling Emotions, And the Case for a New Emotion

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08 - Judith Fan: The Wonders of Playing With Blocks

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07 - Ovul Sezer: The Case for Sharing Good News

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06 - Deon Benton: What a Computational Model Can Tell Us About Babies' Inner (Moral) Life?

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05 - Linda Skitka: Moral Convictions

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04 - Edouard Machery: What Is A Replication?

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03 - Thomas Talhelm: Is Our Understanding of Collectivism Wrong? A New Theory of Responsibilism

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02 - Michael Frank: The Universals and Variations of Children's Early Language Learning

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01 - Jamil Zaki: Cynicism and Market Cognition