Social Sciences Podcasts

Therapy for Black Girls

671 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5.4K ratings
The Therapy for Black Girls podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all...

Mysterious Universe

210 episodes - Latest episode: about 19 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 5.4K ratings
Always interesting and often hilarious, join hosts Aaron Wright and Benjamin Grundy as they investigate the latest in futurology, weird science, consciousness research, alternative history, cryptoz...

EconTalk

1,265 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes ...

SciShow Tangents

475 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to ...

Blurry Photos

427 episodes - Latest episode: 29 days 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...

Behavior Bitches

190 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Ever wonder why guys always assume you’re down to get dirty within 3 seconds of meeting them? Why you keep making the same bad decisions and getting back with your crummy ex? Why you can’t stick to...

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

849 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 923 ratings
Cara Santa Maria is a science communicator, television host, producer, and journalist. She is excited to present "Talk Nerdy," a place for conversations with interesting people about interesting to...

Consider Before Consuming

144 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 704 ratings
Think about all of the things you consider every day to help keep yourself, your loved ones, and your community happy, healthy, and hopeful. Now consider this: There is an ever-growing body of re...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

1,513 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day 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,...

Science of Reading: The Podcast

220 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 491 ratings
Science of Reading: The Podcast will deliver the latest insights from researchers and practitioners in early reading. Via a conversational approach, each episode explores a timely topic related to...

Origin Stories

84 episodes - Latest episode: 25 days 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.

Very Bad Therapy

152 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★ - 318 ratings
Very Bad Therapy is a closer look at what goes wrong in the counseling room - and how it could go better - as told by the clients who survived.

Speaking of Jung: Interviews with Jungian Analysts

164 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 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: 9 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...

The Lane 9 Podcast

256 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 232 ratings
The place where we talk about the prevalence of disordered eating and body dysmorphia in sport, and hear from runners at all levels about their experiences finding balance, joy, and wellbeing withi...

Popcorn Psychology

125 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 198 ratings
Three licensed therapists breakdown and analyze popular movies and characters from the perspectives of an individual, child, and a marriage and family therapist.

SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

67 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 193 ratings
What makes you … you? And who tells what stories and why? In the fifth season of the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of human stories: from the origins of the chili pepper to h...

Paranormal Almanac

298 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 190 ratings
Each week we will talk about Paranormal news and tell our favorite paranormal stories, its informative, fun, and freaky.

Quantitude

189 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 181 ratings
A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant. Co-hosts Patrick Curran and Greg Hancock talk about serious statistical topics, but without takin...

Science for the People

649 episodes - Latest episode: 4 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: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 170 ratings
I study the lives of the wildest writers who ever lived.

Subtitle

70 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 167 ratings
Language unites and divides us. It mystifies and delights us. Patrick Cox and Kavita Pillay tell the stories of people with all kinds of linguistic passions: comedians, writers, researchers; speake...

Woman of Valor with Bari Mitzmann

79 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 157 ratings
Candid discussions and practical advice for the modern woman

Two Psychologists Four Beers

111 episodes - Latest episode: 7 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: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 139 ratings
This is the podcast where everthing is in bounds. Social, political, philosophical, to the sublime.

Probable Causation

177 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 128 ratings
A show about law, economics, and crime.

Conversations With Joe

155 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 127 ratings
Interesting conversations about interesting things with interesting people. Hosted by Joe Scott from the YouTube channel, Answers With Joe.

Raising Daughters

236 episodes - Latest episode: 6 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.

DBT & Me

164 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 110 ratings
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was created by a woman named Marsha Linehan in the 1980s. The skills she created are now taught all over the world. DBT can improve depression, anxiety, borderlin...

Personality Junkie Podcast

6 episodes - Latest episode: 9 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...