169 - Tamar Kushnir: The Power of Imagination

169 - Tamar Kushnir: The Power of Imagination

February 5, 2026 · 47 min

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Adani chats with Tamar Kushnir about her research on imagination and social cognition in childhood.

Adani chats with Tamar Kushnir, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Tamar’s research spans pretty much everything you can imagine: Cognitive development, causal learning, social cognition, moral cognition, cultural psychology, free will, imagination, counterfactual thinking, self-control, and more! In this conversation, we discuss Tamar’s fascinating review on imagination and social cognition in childhood alongside many fun tangents about superheroes, the Wright Broth...

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