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On Wisdom is a science podcast hosted by Charles Cassidy and Igor Grossmann. It has 67 episodes, with the latest published November 2025.

On Wisdom features a social and cognitive scientist in Toronto and an educator in London discussing the latest empirical science regarding the nature of wisdom. Igor Grossmann runs the Wisdom & Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Charles Cassidy runs the Evidence-Based Wisdom project in London, UK. The podcast thrives on a diet of freewheeling conversation on wisdom, decision-making, wellbeing, and society and includes regular guests spots with leading behavioral scientists from the field of wisdom research and beyond. Welcome to The On Wisdom Podcast.

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67: The Wisdom Turing Test - Part Two (with Steve Rathje)

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66: The Wisdom Turing Test - Part One

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65: Religion as Make-Believe (with Neil Van Leeuwen)

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64: The Potency and Potential of Social Networks (with Nicholas Christakis)

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63: The AI Mirror: Why Machines Reflect Us More Than They Think (with Shannon Vallor)

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62: Experimental Philosophy: Testing the Limits of Wisdom and Knowledge (with Edouard Machery)

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61: Beyond Bias: Group Identity, Wisdom, and the Climate Crisis (with Leaf Van Boven and David Sherman)

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60: Wisdom, Love, and the Lexical Fallacy (with Alan Fiske)

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59: Shaping Reality and Relationships: The Science of Connection and Expectation (with David Robson)

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58: The Social Robots are Coming! (with Kerstin Dautenhahn)

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57: The Epic Challenge of Knowing Thyself (with David Dunning)

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56: Awe Reloaded (with Dacher Keltner)

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55: Wise of the Machines (with Sina Fazelpour)

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54: Emotions Are Not What You Think (with Lisa Feldman Barrett )

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53: Moral Reframing and The Science of Political Persuasion (with Robb Willer)

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52: World Wide Wisdom (with Deepak Ramola)

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51: Tricky Colleagues and Contagious Emotions (with Tessa West)

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50: Morality Meets World (with Joshua Greene)

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49: Wise Goals (with Ayelet Fishbach)

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48: A Joyous Journey from Black-and-White to Grey (with Tom Gilovich)

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47: Charting Pandemic Waters: A Common Wisdom Model for Uncertain Times (with Howard Nusbaum) - Rebroadcast

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46: Antifragility, Gut Feelings, and the Myth of Pure Evil (with Jonathan Haidt) - Rebroadcast

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45: Wisdom at Work (with Barry Schwartz) - Rebroadcast

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44: A Special Announcement

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43: Invisible to Ourselves: A Life of a Psychological Scientist (with Richard Nisbett)

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42: Reflections on Wisdom in the World after Covid

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41: Wisdom for Negative Consequences (Pt. I) - Social Support, Sympathy & Compassion, Acknowledging Uncertainty, and Balancing Diverse Interests

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40: World After Covid series: Negative Consequences (Part II) - Autobiographical Memory, Estrangement, Political Conflict, and Prejudice

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39: World After Covid series: Negative Consequences (Part I) - Social Inequality, Loneliness, Economic Hardships, and Despair

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38: World After Covid series: Wisdom for Positive Consequences (Pt. II) - Critical Thinking, Intellectual Humility, Political Cooperation, and Solidarity

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37: World After Covid series: Wisdom for Positive Consequences (Pt. I) - Sympathy and Compassion, Self-distancing, Perspective-taking, and Learning from pandemics

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36: World After Covid series: Positive Consequences (Part II) - Political cooperation, Nature, Solidarity, and Prosocial behaviours

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35: World After Covid series: Positive Consequences (Part I) - Political and structural change, Care for elders, Social connectedness, and Reconsidering habits

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34: World After Covid series: Wisdom for Now (Part II) - What's important, Living in the moment, Social connectedness, and Shared humanity

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33: World After Covid series: Wisdom for Now (Part I)

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32: Shifting Gears: Wisdom in the 'World After Covid'

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31: The Meaning of Wisdom Before and During the Pandemic (with Ricca Edmondson)

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30: Emotions, Attention, and Decision Making in the Aging Brain (with Mara Mather)

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29: Charting Pandemic Waters: A Common Wisdom Model for Uncertain Times (with Howard Nusbaum)

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28: Pandemic Happiness (with Sonja Lyubomirsky)

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27: The Wisdom of a Modern Elder (with Chip Conley)

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26: Wicked Problems (with Judith Glück)

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25: 'This is Basically a Revolution': Self-Knowledge and The Battle for Better Science (with Simine Vazire)

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24: Misbehavioral Economics: Choosing irrationality

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23: Antifragility, Gut Feelings, and the Myth of Pure Evil (with Jonathan Haidt)

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22: The Epistemic Tightrope: Walking The Line of Doubt (with Scott Lilienfeld)

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21: The Art and Science of Knowing You Don't Know (with Mark Alfano)

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Episode 20: The Science of Awe (with Dacher Keltner)

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Episode 19: The Individual and The Culture (with Adam Grant)

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Episode 18: The End of the World is Nigh: Polarised Tribes, Passionate Words, and the Partisan Brain (with Jay Van Bavel)

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