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178 - Julia Nolte: Why We Avoid Difficult Decisions

June 26, 2026 12:00am 1:01

This week, Enna chats with Dr. Julia Nolte, Assistant Professor of Economic Psychology at Tilburg University. Julia’s research examines how information management, risk perception, and decision-making change across adult...

177 - Alison Gopnik: How Can Understanding Childhood Help Us Build Better AI? (REAIR)

June 11, 2026 9:00pm 40 min

In this re-air (but more timely than ever!) episode from 2021, Anjie chats with Alison Gopnik, Professor at the Department of Psychology and Affiliate Professor at Department of Philosophy at UC Berkeley. Alison is not o...

176 - Elizabeth Bonawitz: How to Have Fun While Studying How Children Learn so Much From so Little

May 30, 2026 1:00am 46 min

Adani chats with Elizabeth Bonawitz, Professor of Learning Sciences at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Elizabeth’s work focuses on basic theories of learning with the broader goal of informing educational practice....

175 - Nicholas Epley: A Little More Social

May 14, 2026 1:00pm 56 min

Nick Epley is the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He studies social cognition—how thinking people think about other thi...

174 - Amit Goldenberg: Collective Emotions and Social Media (REAIR)

April 17, 2026 12:00am 48 min

In this reair episode from 2023, Eric chats with Amit Goldenberg, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Amit studies emotions in social interactions, for example in political contexts...

173 - Juliana Schroeder: Mistakenly Seeking Solitude (REAIR)

April 02, 2026 11:00pm 46 min

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 wron...

172 - Julia Chatain: Embodied Learning and Educational Technology in Mathematics and Beyond (REAIR)

March 19, 2026 11:00pm 37 min

Adani chats with Dr. Julia Chatain, Senior Scientist at the Singapore-ETH Centre of ETH Zürich. Julia is a computer scientist and learning scientist responsible for building a new research program, “Future Embodied Learn...

171 - Casey Kenyon Brown: Can Your Relationships Make You Depressed? (REAIR)

March 05, 2026 10:00pm 39 min

This week, Enna chats with Dr. Casey Kenyon Brown, Professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. She has received numerous honors and awards, includ...

170 - Marginalia Episode: Erica Bailey on Authenticity (REAIR)

February 19, 2026 9:00pm 50 min

Marginalia Episodes are in collaboration with Marginalia Science! Marginalia Science is a community committed to promoting the work of scholars who are traditionally underrepresented in academia. In each Marginalia Episo...

169 - Tamar Kushnir: The Power of Imagination

February 05, 2026 8:00pm 47 min

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 ...

168 - Robin Dunbar: How Many People Can You Be Friends With? (REAIR)

January 22, 2026 10:00pm 1:12

In this re-air episode from 2022, Eric chats with Robin Dunbar, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Oxford. Robin has famously studied the evolution of the human brain, arguing that our brain developed to un...

167 - Nicky Sullivan: Bridging the Gap Between Academic Research and Real-World Impact

January 08, 2026 10:00am 38 min

Anjie chats with Dr. Nicky Sullivan, senior researcher at Impact Justice, a national non-profit innovation and research center focused on transforming the U.S. criminal justice system. Dr. Sullivan received his PhD from ...

166 - Steve Rathje: The Psychology of Virality

December 19, 2025 1:00pm 1:06

Su chats with Dr. Steve Rathje. Dr. Rathje is an incoming Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an NSF and AXA postdoctoral fellow at New...

165 – Ying Wong: From Cultural Psychology to Global Business

December 04, 2025 11:00am 29 min

Anjie chats with Dr. Ying Wong, founder and CEO of B.peachy and former cultural psychologist. Ying received her PhD in Psychology from Stanford in 2007, where she studied shame and guilt through a cultural lens. After ac...

164 - Susan Engel: Do We Become Less Curious As We Grow Older?

November 21, 2025 1:00am 48 min

Adani chats with Dr. Susan Engel, a Senior Lecturer and Senior Faculty Fellow in Psychology at Williams College. Susan’s research spans many areas, including the development of curiosity and invention, children’s ideas, ...

163 - Roger Levy: The Science of Language in the Era of AI

November 13, 2025 10:00pm 40 min

Su chats with Dr. Roger Levy. Dr. Levy is a Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where he directs the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory. His research focuses on theoretical and app...

162 - Adam Benforado: How prioritizing kids benefits us all

November 06, 2025 3:00pm 50 min

In today’s episode, Adani chats with Adam Benforado, a lawyer, writer, and professor at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law. Adam’s research, teaching, and advocacy are focused on children’s rights and criminal justi...

161 - Yuan Chang (YC) Leong: Emotional arousal & dynamic brain connectivity

October 30, 2025 1:00pm 40 min

Su chats with Dr. Yuan Chang (YC) Leong. YC is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is the director of Computational Affective and Social Neuroscience Lab, which is a part of the Departme...

160 - Jennifer Hu: From Human Minds to Artificial Minds

October 23, 2025 11:00pm 35 min

Su chats with Dr. Jennifer Hu. Jenn is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, directing the Group for Language and Intelligence. Her research examines the computatio...

159 - Dawn Finzi: From Vision Neuroscience to ML Engineering (Psychologist in the Wild Series)

October 16, 2025 5:00pm 26 min

Elizabeth chats with Dr. Dawn Finzi, a Machine Learning engineer on the Perception team at Zoox, and a recent alumni of our very own Stanford’s Department of Psychology, as a part of our new Psychologist in the Wild seri...

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