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Social Science Bites is a podcast series interviewing major figures in social science, made in association with SAGE
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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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...

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...

There is a value to shared knowledge that tends to go unrecognized because it's so ubiquitous. Nonetheless, experimental psychologist Steven...

A key insight social anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee had while observing electoral behavior in a Bengali village was that -- at least in th...

In 2016 psychologist Paul Bloom wrote a book titled Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (a naming decision he still wrestles w...

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...

As a practical matter, how much effort do you put into pinning down the causes behind daily occurrences? To developmental psychologist Frank...

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...

As an anthropologist, Victor Buchli has one foot in the Neolithic past and another in the space-faring future. A professor of material cultu...

Let's say you were asked to name the greatest health risks facing the planet. Priceton University economist Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder an...

Flexibility is a cardinal virtue in physical fitness, and according to political psychologist and neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod , it can be a...

When economic news, especially that revolving around working, gets reported, it tends to get reported in aggregate – the total number of job...

Are university students unhappy? We won't generalize, but many are, and this was something Bruce Hood noted. Being an experimental psycholog...

Let's cut to the chase: "The overwhelming majority of murders in the United States involve guns," says economist Jens Ludwig. "And in fact,...

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...

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...

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...

Social Science Bites is a podcast series interviewing major figures in social science, made in association with SAGE

As an investigative journalist, Julia Ebner had the freedom to do something she freely admits that as an academic (the hat she currently wea...

The relationship between citizens and their criminal justice systems comes down to just that - relationships. And those relations generally...
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