173 - Juliana Schroeder: Mistakenly Seeking Solitude (REAIR)

In this reair episode, Eric chats with Juliana Schroeder, Associate Professor in the Management of Organizations at Berkeley Haas. She studies how people think about the minds of other people, and how they are often wrong trying to understand what others are up to. Her work has been discussed in outlets ranging from Vice to The Atlantic and Forbes. Eric and Juliana review her exciting recent work on “undersociality.” Talking to other people is often meaningful, not just for extraverts, and yet we hesitate to talk to others, making overly pessimistic predictions about how awkward and unpleasant such interactions would be. This leads us to “mistakenly seek solitude.” Juliana discusses what we can do to motivate ourselves to talk to others more, why that is so beneficial, and why she herself struggles to do it. Links: Juliana's review paper on undersociality: Juliana's key empirical paper: Juliana's Twitter Eric's website Eric's Twitter @EricNeumannPsy Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPod Podcast Substack Let us know what you think of this episode, or of the podcast! :) stanfordpsychpodcast@gmail.com

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173 - Juliana Schroeder: Mistakenly Seeking Solitude (REAIR) is an episode from Stanford Psychology Podcast by Stanford Psychology.

This episode is 46:50 long.

This episode was published on Apr 3, 2026.

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