Alex Edmans on Market Irrationality
elief in 'markets' among the financial elite at time can at time border on the theological, with approaches like the efficient market hypoth...
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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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20 of 126 episodesRafael Schacter on Graffiti
Graffiti has a long pedigree, whether our starting point is the wall paintings of Lascaux, the carved crudities of Roman toilets or the G.I....
Ariel Kalil on Parents' Role in Child Development
When discussing youngsters' life outcomes, school is often the first place someone starts investigating. And yet school time is dwarfed by t...
Mahzarin Banaji on Social Cognition
One of the promises of artificial intelligence is that it will mimic, and perhaps even improve, on human thinking. One of those hoped-for im...
Daniel Yon on the Brain as Scientist
The human brain works very hard behind the scenes even in the most mundane aspects of daily life, like enjoying a nice day or determining th...
Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect
Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by the world around t...
Ellora 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...