Alex Edmans on Confirmation Bias
How hard do we fight against information that runs counter to what we already think? While...
19:31
Tejendra Pherali on Education and Conflict
Consider some of the conflicts bubbling or boiling in the world today, and then plot where...
29:08
Safiya Noble on Search Engines
The work of human hands retains evidence of the humans who created the works. While this might...
28:23
Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 5: A Social Science Bites Retrospective
At the end of every interview that host David Edmonds conducts for the Social Science Bites...
23:56
Deborah Small on Charitable Giving
Is giving to a charitable cause essentially equivalent to any other economic decision made by a...
21:05
Hal Hershfield on How We Perceive Our Future Selves
On his institutional web homepage at the University of California-Los Angeles’s Anderson...
24:33
Melissa Kearney on Marriage and Children
A common trope in America depicts a traditional family of a married husband and wife and their...
26:57
Raffaella Sadun on Effective Management
While it seems intuitively obvious that good management is important to the success of an...
25:11
Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight
“We have been evolving into a species that is super-cooperative: we work together with...
27:05
Heaven Crawley on International Migration
In the Global North, media and political depictions of migration tend to be relentless images...
27:00
Shinobu Kitayama on Cultural Differences in Psychology
In the 1970s and early 1980s, when Shinobu Kitayama was studying psychology at Kyoto University,...
28:24
Ayelet Fishbach on Goals and Motivation
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,” the poet Robert Browning once opined, “or...
24:31
Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics and Educational Attainment
In this Social Science Bites podcast, interviewer David Edmonds asks psychologist Kathryn Paige...
34:18
David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect
In the most innocent interpretation, suggesting someone should ‘do their own research’ is a...
19:21
Claudia Goldin on the Gender Pay Gap
Historically and into the present day, female workers overall make less than men. Looking at...
23:03
Will Hutton on the State of Social Science
Political economist and journalist Will Hutton, author of the influential 1995 book The State...
21:47
Batja Mesquita on Culture and Emotion
There’s the always charming notion that “deep down we’re all the same,” suggesting all of...
21:09
Lo último de Historia y humanidades
The wider world in 1800
Episodio
April check in
Episodio
Premium
Plus