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- 🇦🇺AU · Social Sciences#1605K to 30K
- 🇺🇸US · Social Sciences#1875K to 30K
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57K to 236K🇦🇺13%🇺🇸13%🇮🇳13%+19 more - Active Followers
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#117: Happiness As a Tool for Behavior Change with Liz Dunn & Jiaying Zhao
Jun 1, 2026
54m 10s
#116: Change Beliefs, Change Opinions? with Yamil Velez
May 4, 2026
59m 04s
#115: Raising Color-Conscious Kids with Sylvia Perry
Apr 6, 2026
1h 00m 08s
#114: Making Immigration Popular with Alex Kustov
Mar 2, 2026
1h 06m 32s
Introducing Mind Games
Feb 10, 2026
17m 16s
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| 6/1/26 | ![]() #117: Happiness As a Tool for Behavior Change with Liz Dunn & Jiaying Zhao | Elizabeth Dunn and Jiaying Zhao are professors at the University of British Columbia, where they study social psychology and climate behavioral science, respectively. Together, they explore the intersection of human happiness and environmental action, challenging the traditional "guilt and shame" narratives that dominate climate communication. We talk about their new book: Leave the Lights On: How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Species, which explores how you can address climate change by taki... | 54m 10s | ||||||
| 5/4/26 | ![]() #116: Change Beliefs, Change Opinions? with Yamil Velez | Yamil Velez is an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University, where he studies what makes political opinions hard to shift. He’s been using innovative new methods to test important ideas about how people arrive at their views and what it takes to change them. We talk about the relationship between beliefs and opinions, why correcting misinformation doesn’t necessarily move opinions, and what happens when persuasive messages are tailored to the specific reasons people hold... | 59m 04s | ||||||
| 4/6/26 | ![]() #115: Raising Color-Conscious Kids with Sylvia Perry | Sylvia Perry is a social psychologist and Associate Professor at Northwestern University, where she directs the Social Cognition and Social Identity Lab. She studies the psychological mechanisms that shape how people recognize and confront their own biases, as well as how those biases are transmitted across generations. We talk about her research on racial socialization, specifically focusing on how white parents navigate—or frequently avoid—conversations about race with their children. Sylvi... | 1h 00m 08s | ||||||
| 3/2/26 | ![]() #114: Making Immigration Popular with Alex Kustov | Alex Kustov studies public opinion about immigration—why it’s so durable, why it becomes so politically explosive, and what (if anything) can make it more popular. We talk about the surprisingly stable foundations of immigration attitudes, why only a small fraction of people are categorically opposed, and how partisanship shapes the debate. Alex also explains what he calls the “altruist’s dilemma”: why people who are genuinely altruistic can still be skeptical of immigration, and how pol... | 1h 06m 32s | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | ![]() Introducing Mind Games | I'm excited to share a preview of a new podcast I think you’d enjoy: Mind Games. What if you could hypnotize yourself into a better you? Or.... secretly hypnotize others into giving you anything you want? That’s the promise of NLP. Mind Games is an investigation into the world of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, a blend of hypnosis, linguistics, and psychology that has quietly shaped industries, institutions, and belief systems around the world. Part science experiment, part investigatio... | 17m 16s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | ![]() #113: Psychology in the Age of AI with Steve Rathje | Steven Rathje is a postdoc at New York University and an incoming assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He studies the psychology of technology, which includes how people engage with a variety of digital tools, especially those with social implications. We talk about his work on what makes content go viral online and the consequences of AI chatbots that are more agreeable than maybe they ought to be. Along the way, we see how basic principles of psychology govern social life in t... | 1h 00m 53s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | ![]() #112: Thinking Categorically with Greg Murphy | Greg Murphy studies the psychology of concepts. How do we use language to understand things, and how do we sort the world into categories? In our conversation, we consider what makes a category, why we love them, and where they steer us wrong. Dr. Murphy released a book on this topic a few years ago: Categories We Live By How We Classify Everyone and Everything Join me over at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OpinionScience Learn more about Opinion Science and catch up on all the episodes at ... | 1h 04m 47s | ||||||
| 12/1/25 | ![]() #111: You Don't Know What You Like with Paul Eastwick & Eli Finkel | Paul Eastwick and Eli Finkel are two social psychologists who study the gears and levers of romantic relationships. What do people find attractive in a partner? How do relationships evolve over time? And critically, do romantic movies get any of this stuff right? Paul and Eli host the podcast, Love Factually, which dissects popular romantic films from the standpoint of behavioral science. What do they get wrong? What do they get right? On the show this month, we talk about the podcast, how sc... | 58m 16s | ||||||
| 11/3/25 | ![]() #110: The Value of Entertainment with Sara Grady | Sara Grady studies the function of entertainment—why we watch, play, and listen to the media that fill our lives. She's an assistant professor of Communication at Ohio State University. In our conversation, we explore what entertainment actually does for us, what it means to connect with fictional characters, and how storytelling shapes our relationships and well-being. Sara also shares her path from film production to media psychology and why understanding stories only deepens their magic.&n... | 52m 51s | ||||||
| 10/6/25 | ![]() #109: The Realities of Political Persuasion with David Broockman | David Broockman is a political scientist at UC Berkeley who digs into one of democracy’s core questions: can political messages really change minds? He’s spent his career running careful studies of persuasion, from door-to-door conversations to the effects of cable news, and testing whether the confident claims of political consultants actually hold up. In our conversation, David shares the path that brought him into political science and the “credibility revolution” that reshaped how researc... | 53m 16s | ||||||
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| 8/11/25 | ![]() SciComm Summer #26: Lulu Miller on Leading with Story | Lulu Miller has done a lot of things and done them very well. She is currently the co-host of Radiolab and its family-friendly spinoff, Terrestrials. She also co-created Invisibilia with Alix Spiegel and wrote the beautiful book, Why Fish Don't Exist. In our conversation, I try to learn Lulu's secrets when it comes it sharing science across media. I've been a fan of her work for a long time, so it was great to get to talk with her! (If you're here as a Radiolab fan, you should also check out ... | 52m 48s | ||||||
| 8/4/25 | ![]() SciComm Summer #25: Sarah McAnulty on Art and Community in Science Communication | Sarah McAnulty is a squid biologist and a science communicator. She's come up with all sorts of creative ways to bring science to the people, especially through local community engagement initiatives. Learn more about Skype a Scientist: https://www.skypeascientist.com/ You can find the rest of this summer's science communication podcast series here. Join me over at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OpinionScience Learn more about Opinion Science and catch up on all the episodes at http://opini... | 51m 45s | ||||||
| 7/28/25 | ![]() SciComm Summer #24: Joe Palca on NPR Science Reporting | Joe Palca reported on science for NPR for years. He found his sweet spot, capturing people's interest and filling them in on curious new findings in just a few minutes. His path to this job wasn't all that direct, and in our conversation, he shares how he got there and what he's learned along the way. Listen to his 2019 story on the "electric dipole moment": Scientists Studying EDM To Find Why Everything In The Universe Exists : NPR You can find the rest of this summer's science communic... | 51m 38s | ||||||
| 7/21/25 | ![]() SciComm Summer #23: Alison Fragale on Giving Keynote Talks | Alison Fragale is an organizational psychologist who gives keynote talks and leads workshops outside academia. She talks frankly about what it takes to book speaking engagements, design powerful talks that make a difference, and juggle a speaking schedule with other commitments. She also just released a book -- Likable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve. You can find the rest of this summer's science communication podcast series here. Join me over at Patreon: https://www.patreon.c... | 54m 40s | ||||||
| 7/14/25 | ![]() SciComm Summer #22: Alex Dainis on Producing Online Videos | Alex Dainis is a freelance science communicator and video producer. She's been making science videos on YouTube for years, including recent work for the American Chemical Society. In 2024, she was received an Award for Excellence in Science Communications from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the Schmidt Foundation. We talk about how she started down this road and decided to make it her full-time work after graduate school, including the challenges of freelanci... | 1h 01m 05s | ||||||
| 7/7/25 | ![]() SciComm Summer #21: Joel Bervell on Short Form Video | Joel Bervell recently graduated from medical school, which is when he gained fame as an influencer helping the public navigate good medical science. He’s out there breaking down myths about medicine, particularly shining a light on racial disparities in health and treatment. He recently won a Peabody award, consults with the White House, has given interviews on various media platforms, and has given talks all over. He hosts the podcast, The Dose. And he developed an animated children’s ... | 52m 13s | ||||||
| 6/30/25 | ![]() SciComm Summer #20: Adam Cole on Making "Howtown" | Kicking off the 3rd season of Hot SciComm Summer is Adam Cole. Adam started at NPR’s Science Desk in 2011 where he started making short videos and radio pieces. In 2014, he launched the YouTube channel Skunk Bear with NPR, which was a venue for fun, quirky, visual forays into science stories big and small. After NPR, he did work for Vox, including their Netflix series, “The Mind, Explained” in 2019. Most recently, Adam’s work came on my radar again because he’s one half of the new YouTube cha... | 55m 30s | ||||||
| 6/23/25 | ![]() Introducing "SciComm Summer"...Season 3! | You didn't think #HotSciCommSummer was done, did you? Join me for a whole new season of Hot SciComm summer, a special laid-back podcast series featuring writers, podcast producers, video producers, speakers, and more. Get ready to hear from seven more top-notch science communicators and hear how they got into this area, how they approach their communication, and what you can learn about doing it yourself. The new season is still aimed at science journalists and scientists interested in sharin... | 1m 59s | ||||||
| 6/2/25 | ![]() #108: Characters Matter with Matt Grizzard | Matt Grizzard is a communication scholar who studies how people relate to characters in entertainment media as a sign of how much they enjoy one story versus another. A guiding framework behind this work is "affective disposition theory." What is that? Well, listen to the episode! We talk about this theory, how it helps us understand people's reactions to what happens to characters in media, and what it means for the importance of entertainment in our everyday experience. Join me over a... | 57m 23s | ||||||
| 5/5/25 | ![]() #107: Showing Open-Mindedness with Mohamed Hussein | Mohamed Hussein studies how the psychology of persuasion and politics interact. He is an assistant professor of marketing at Columbia Business School. On the podcast, we talk about his work on "receptiveness," or people's openness to hearing out opinions they disagree with. (For more on receptiveness, check out episode 56, Receptiveness to Other Opinions with Julia Minson). But the research we talk about includes studies on how "you" versus "we" language affects how receptive we seem (Hussein... | 51m 22s | ||||||
| 4/7/25 | ![]() #106: Moral Outrage with Kurt Gray | Kurt Gray studies our moral minds and how we grapple with everyday ethics. In his new book, Outraged, he explores the deep psychology of human nature and what it means for how we navigate politically divisive times. In our conversation, we do a deep dive into his perspective that morality is fundamentally about our ideas of harm, which conflicts with how other theories talk about morality. We also get into what it means for concepts to shift with time or circumstance. If you like this convers... | 52m 32s | ||||||
| 3/3/25 | ![]() #105: Targeted Messaging Online with Sandra Matz | Sandra Matz is a computational social scientist at Columbia Business School. She uses big data to understand people and what motivates them to act. And she has a new book out! It's Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior, and it's an enjoyable, easy-to-read introduction to what your online data say about who you are and how communicators can use those insights to serve up compelling content--for better or worse. At the top of the show, I also m... | 58m 34s | ||||||
| 2/3/25 | ![]() #104: Posters as Persuasion with Angelina Lippert (ft. Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.) | Angelina Lippert is the Executive Director and Curator at Poster House in New York City. She is an expert when it comes to the use of posters as a tool for mass communication and persuasion. We talk about what a poster is, the history of posters as a medium, the social effects they have, and why we should still care about posters in the digital age. At the top of the show, we hear from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. He's a letterpress printer who puts ink to paper to spread messages about ... | 59m 59s | ||||||
| 1/6/25 | ![]() #103: Taking Extreme Action with Joe Siev | Joe Siev studies extreme political behavior and its appeal. He's a postdoctoral fellow at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. In our conversation, we talk about his research linking people's sense of ambivalence with their willingness to take extreme action. Join me over at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OpinionScience Learn more about Opinion Science and catch up on all the episodes at http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/. | 45m 06s | ||||||
| 12/2/24 | ![]() #102: Protest with Colin Wayne Leach | *If you downloaded this episode early, the wrong file was uploaded. Sorry! We're all good now. Colin Wayne Leach is a social psychologist who also wears a bunch of other social science hats. He approaches the social world by appreciating its nature as a system of interconnected parts. He's made strides in a lot of research areas, including emotion, prejudice, and morality. In our conversation, we focus on his work on protest as a vehicle for social change. He shares how he thinks about prot... | 53m 17s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
22 placements across 22 markets.
Chart Positions
22 placements across 22 markets.

