Social Sciences Podcasts

GraveYard Tales

290 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.9K ratings
We tell the stories and history of haunted places, ghost encounters, cryptid encounters, the paranormal, preternatural, and every oddity imaginable. And we do it with a comedic twist and don't take...

Anything Ghost Show

70 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratings
Since 2006, Anything Ghost has been sharing people's personal paranormal experiences. The stories are sent to Lex Wahl, who reads the experiences and sometimes adds music and effects to the backgro...

Personality Hacker Podcast

663 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Make better decisions based on how your mind works. Personality Hacker teaches you the coding language of your mind and how to use it to create great relationships - a fulfilling career and happine...

Earth Ancients

718 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Earth Ancients chronicles the growing (and often suppressed) evidence of known and unknown civilizations, their ruined cities, and artifacts developed from advanced science and technology. Erased f...

Blurry Photos

428 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
A podcast that explores the unexplained and explains the unexplored, Blurry Photos seeks the facts behind the fiction of the world’s most fascinating, unbelievable, and chilling mysteries and legen...

Inquiring Minds

464 episodes - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★ - 821 ratings
Each week we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science and society collide. We’re committed to the idea that making an effort to understand the world around you though scienc...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

1,540 episodes - Latest episode: about 15 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news,...

Origin Stories

85 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 412 ratings
Explore human evolution one story at a time. This award-winning show blends storytelling with science that will change your understanding of who we are.

Speaking of Jung: Interviews with Jungian Analysts

164 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 293 ratings
A unique podcast exploring the life and work of C.G. Jung through in-depth discussions with certified Jungian Analysts. Created and hosted by Laura London in Chicago.

Be Reasonable

165 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 263 ratings
Be Reasonable is a podcast which examines beliefs from outside of the mainstream, exploring how those views are constructed and what evidence people feel supports their case. We believe in approach...

Seven Ages Audio Journal

73 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
Archaeology and the Exploration of Human History

Scholars Strategy Network's No Jargon

277 episodes - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★★ - 208 ratings
No Jargon, the Scholars Strategy Network’s monthly podcast, presents interviews with top university scholars on the politics, policy problems, and social issues facing the nation. Powerful research...

Your Brain at Work

121 episodes - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★ - 183 ratings
In organizations around the world, leaders are facing a deluge of urgent issues: a crisis in employee engagement, the need to make workforces more diverse, and the challenge of making workplaces fe...

Science for the People

649 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 174 ratings
Science for the People is a long-format interview podcast that explores the connections between science, popular culture, history, and public policy, to help listeners understand the evidence and a...

Other Life

244 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 170 ratings
I study the lives of the wildest writers who ever lived.

ArchaeoEd Podcast

48 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 169 ratings
Get ready to embark on a time-traveling adventure with the legendary archaeologist, Dr. Ed Barnhart! Let's unearth the stories of the awe-inspiring civilizations of the Americas. These are the tal...

Woman of Valor with Bari Mitzmann

79 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Candid discussions and practical advice for the modern woman

Two Psychologists Four Beers

111 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★ - 151 ratings
Two psychologists endeavor to drink four beers while discussing news and controversies in science, academia, and beyond.

Wise Guy Talks

85 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★ - 139 ratings
This is the podcast where everthing is in bounds. Social, political, philosophical, to the sublime.

Probable Causation

179 episodes - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★ - 129 ratings
A show about law, economics, and crime.

Raising Daughters

236 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 124 ratings
This podcast will provide information, awareness, practical tools, and inspiration to parents and other adults who work with elementary, middle, and high school girls.

TILclimate

61 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 119 ratings
Get smart quickly on climate change. This award-winning MIT podcast, Today I Learned: Climate, breaks down the science, technologies, and policies behind climate change, how it’s impacting us, and ...

Psych With Mike

262 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 118 ratings
Being human is hard work. Let Psych With Mike be your users manual to make it a little easier. Psych With Mike started as a radio show in 2017 and has now evolved into a podcast. The show explores ...

Personality Junkie Podcast

6 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★ - 107 ratings
Join us as we explore a host of fascinating topics—personality, growth, relationships, culture, religion, etc.—through the lens of personality typology. We draw heavily on the work of Carl Jung and...

The TBRI Podcast

66 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 101 ratings
The TBRI® Podcast features conversations about Trust-Based Relational Intervention®, an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. On ...

Cemetery Confessions: A Goth Talk Podcast

160 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 97 ratings
The world's number 1 Goth talk podcast! We discuss news related to the goth experience with a different guest each month, exploring the history, music, literature, fashion and community of the cul...

NASW Social Work Talks

116 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★ - 96 ratings
NASW Social Work Talks informs, educates and inspires through conversations with experts and exploring issues that social work professionals care about. Brought to you by the National Association o...

Social Science Bites

141 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
Bite-sized interviews with top social scientists

Heterodox Out Loud

109 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 87 ratings
Heterodox Out Loud, hosted by HxA president, John Tomasi, is an ongoing podcast featuring conversations with people across the academy and beyond. Listen to insightful, thought-provoking episodes f...

UCLA Housing Voice

79 episodes - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 86 ratings
Why does the housing market seem so broken? And what can we do about it? UCLA Housing Voice tackles these questions in conversation with leading housing researchers, with each episode centered on a...