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Social Science Bites
Social Science Bites is a podcast series interviewing major figures in social science, made in association with SAGE
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Listen to Social Science Bites, a Society & Culture podcast by Michael Todd. Stream 121 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 121 episodesEllora Derenoncourt on the US Racial Wealth Gap
This Social Science Bites podcast offers a dollop of good news and heaping helping of bad. The good news is that since the end of American C...
Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge
There is a value to shared knowledge that tends to go unrecognized because it's so ubiquitous. Nonetheless, experimental psychologist Steven...
Mukulika Banerjee on Indian Democracy
A key insight social anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee had while observing electoral behavior in a Bengali village was that -- at least in th...
Paul Bloom on Empathy
In 2016 psychologist Paul Bloom wrote a book titled Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (a naming decision he still wrestles w...
Devyani Sharma on Accents
What does your accent – and yes, every speaker has one – say about you? Or perhaps the better question is, what do others hear in your accen...
Frank Keil on Causal Thinking
As a practical matter, how much effort do you put into pinning down the causes behind daily occurrences? To developmental psychologist Frank...
Setha Low on Public Spaces
Having been raised in Los Angeles, a place with vast swathes of single-family homes connected by freeways, arriving in Costa Rica was an eye...
Victor Buchli on Life in Low-Earth Orbit
As an anthropologist, Victor Buchli has one foot in the Neolithic past and another in the space-faring future. A professor of material cultu...
Ramanan Laxminarayan on Antibiotic Use
Let's say you were asked to name the greatest health risks facing the planet. Priceton University economist Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder an...
Leor Zmigrod on the Ideological Brain
Flexibility is a cardinal virtue in physical fitness, and according to political psychologist and neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod , it can be a...
David Autor on the Labor Market
When economic news, especially that revolving around working, gets reported, it tends to get reported in aggregate – the total number of job...
Bruce Hood on the Science of Happiness
Are university students unhappy? We won't generalize, but many are, and this was something Bruce Hood noted. Being an experimental psycholog...
Jens Ludwig on American Gun Violence
Let's cut to the chase: "The overwhelming majority of murders in the United States involve guns," says economist Jens Ludwig. "And in fact,...
Crystal Abidin on Influencers
A new people has emerged in the digital age, that of 'internet famous' celebrities. And that new people has a class of social scientist focu...
Katy Milkman on How to Change
Everyone, we assume, wants to be their best person. Few of us, perhaps, none, hits all their marks in this pursuit even if the way toward th...
Janet Currie on Improving Our Children's Futures
There is a natural desire on the part of governments to ensure that their future citizens -- i.e. their nation's children -- are happy, heal...
Joshua Greene on Effective Charities
Social Science Bites is a podcast series interviewing major figures in social science, made in association with SAGE
Julia Ebner on Violent Extremism
As an investigative journalist, Julia Ebner had the freedom to do something she freely admits that as an academic (the hat she currently wea...
Nick Camp on Trust in the Criminal Justice System
The relationship between citizens and their criminal justice systems comes down to just that - relationships. And those relations generally...
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