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Estimated from 43 chart positions in 43 markets.
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- 🇨🇦CA · Social Sciences#51M to 3M
- 🇬🇧GB · Social Sciences#8300K to 1M
- 🇺🇸US · Social Sciences#10300K to 1M
- 🇦🇺AU · Social Sciences#11300K to 1M
- 🇳🇱NL · Social Sciences#14100K to 300K
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1.7M to 5.4M🎙 ~2x weekly·334 episodes·Last published 3d ago - Monthly Reach
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3.4M to 11M🇨🇦28%🇬🇧9%🇺🇸9%+40 more - Active Followers
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1.4M to 4.4M
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342 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind
Jun 22, 2026
Unknown duration
341 - Positive Rants - Heather Barnes
Jun 8, 2026
45m 20s
340 - Thinking Sideways - Jennifer Shahade
May 25, 2026
1h 02m 50s
339 - Enlightened Disagreement
May 11, 2026
1h 28m 43s
338 - May Contain Lies - Alex Edmans (rebroadcast)
Apr 27, 2026
39m 41s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/22/26 |  342 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind | Tim Harford of the podcast Cautionary Tales sits down with David McRaney to hear a story from David's book, How Minds Change, about how (and why) a prominent conspiracy theorist realized he was wrong. | — | ||||||
| 6/8/26 |  341 - Positive Rants - Heather Barnes✨ | communicationengagement+3 | Heather Barnes | — | — | positive rantscommunication+3 | — | 45m 20s | |
| 5/25/26 |  340 - Thinking Sideways - Jennifer Shahade✨ | chessdecision-making+3 | Jennifer Shahade | — | — | chessdecision tree+4 | — | 1h 02m 50s | |
| 5/11/26 |  339 - Enlightened Disagreement✨ | open-mindednesscognitive biases+3 | — | Northwestern UniversityLitowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement | — | enlightened disagreementcognitive biases+3 | — | 1h 28m 43s | |
| 4/27/26 |  338 - May Contain Lies - Alex Edmans (rebroadcast)✨ | financemisinformation+3 | Alex Edmans | London Business School | — | Ladder of Misinferencefinance+3 | — | 39m 41s | |
| 4/13/26 |  337 - Cognitive Surrender - Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw✨ | AIhuman reasoning+3 | Gideon NaveSteven D. Shaw | — | — | AIcognitive surrender+3 | — | 59m 39s | |
| 3/30/26 |  336 - The 3.5 Percent Rule - Erica Chenoweth (rebroadcast)✨ | social movementspopulation dynamics+3 | Erica Chenoweth | — | — | 3.5 percent rulesocial movements+3 | — | 1h 03m 30s | |
| 3/16/26 |  335 - Align Your Mind - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)✨ | psychologyself-help+3 | Britt Frank | — | — | Britt Frankparts work+3 | — | 1h 12m 53s | |
| 3/2/26 |  334 - Magical Thinking - Matt Tompkins (rebroadcast)✨ | magical thinkingdeception+3 | Matt Tompkins | — | — | magical thinkingdeception+3 | — | 1h 19m 13s | |
| 2/16/26 |  YANSS 333 - Selective Perception - Jay Van Bavel✨ | perceptiontruth+3 | Jay Van Bavel | NYU | — | selective perceptioncognition+3 | — | 38m 14s | |
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| 2/2/26 |  332 - Concordance Over Truth Bias (rebroadcast)✨ | disinformationnews bias+3 | — | disinformation researchers | — | disinformationnews+4 | — | 1h 08m 43s | |
| 1/19/26 |  331 - Wicked Problems - Martin Carcasson✨ | deliberationwicked problems+3 | Dr. Martin Carcasson | Center for Public Deliberation | Colorado State | deliberationwicked problems+3 | — | 1h 07m 03s | |
| 1/5/26 |  330 - A More Beautiful Question - Warren Berger (rebroadcast)✨ | questionscreativity+3 | Warren Berger | — | — | questionsWarren Berger+3 | — | 1h 04m 56s | |
| 12/22/25 |  329 - Point Taken - Steven Franconeri✨ | disagreementscommunication+3 | Dr. Steven Franconeri | — | — | disagreementsarguments+3 | — | 51m 52s | |
| 12/8/25 |  328 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg (rebroadcast) | We sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, a world-class geometer, who takes us on a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything | — | ||||||
| 11/24/25 |  327 - The Trolley Solution - Joshua Greene | Joshua Greene tells us how the brain generates morality, and how his research may have solved the infamous trolley problem and in so doing created a way to encourage people to contribute to charities that do the most good. | — | ||||||
| 11/10/25 |  326 - The Origin of Language - Madeleine Beekman | Biologist Madeleine Beekman, author of The Origin of Language, presents a completely new and fascinating theory for how language emerged in homo sapiens, in human beings, in you and me and the rest of us. | — | ||||||
| 10/27/25 |  325 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part Two (rebroadcast) | In this episode we welcome Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano, a political scientist who studies how cognitive dissonance affects all sorts of political behavior. | — | ||||||
| 10/13/25 |  324 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part One (rebroadcast) | In this episode, the story of a doomsday cult who predicted the exact date and circumstances of the end of the world, and what happened when that date passed and the world did not end. | — | ||||||
| 9/29/25 |  323 - Job Therapy - Tessa West (rebroadcast) | Are you unhappy at your job? Are you starting to consider a change of career because of how your current work makes you feel? Do you know why? | — | ||||||
| 9/15/25 |  322 - Intellectual Humility - Tenelle Porter | Can intellectual humility be measured? What influences it and affects it, limits it and enhances it? What even is it, scientifically speaking? We explore all of this and then play an episode of How to Be A Better Human featuring psychologist Tenelle Porter telling comedian Chris Duffy how she is researching how to conduct better research into intellectual humility. | — | ||||||
| 9/1/25 |  321 - Easy Crafts for the Insane - Kelly Williams Brown (rebroadcast) | This episode is about suicide prevention and awareness. Author Kelly Williams Brown tells us about her book, Easy Crafts for the Insane, in which she recounts how, after she gained fame and success as a NYT bestselling author, her world came apart. Then an anti-anxiety-drug-induced manic state nearly ended her life. | — | ||||||
| 8/18/25 |  320 - Misguided - Matthew Facciani | What is misinformation? How does it differ from disinformation or just plain ‘ole propaganda? How do we protect ourselves from people with nefarious intentions using all of these things to affect our thoughts, feelings, and behavior? That’s what we discuss in this episode with Matthew Facciani, social scientist and author of Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How it Spreads, and What We Can Do About It. | — | ||||||
| 8/4/25 |  319 - Love Factually - Eli Finkel and Paul Eastwick | Two psychologists who study love, relationships, and human mating behavior pick apart the movie "The Notebook" and tell us what it gets right and what it gets wrong when it comes to portraying how humans actually, truly think, feel, and behave. | — | ||||||
| 7/21/25 |  318 - The Intention Action Gap - Britt Frank (rebroadcast) | In this episode, we sit down with therapist Britt Frank to discuss the intention action gap, the psychological term for the chasm between what you very much intend to do and what you tend to do instead. | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
50 placements across 43 markets.
Chart Positions
50 placements across 43 markets.