Science Social Sciences Podcasts

Inquiring Minds

464 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 822 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...

Science of Reading: The Podcast

228 episodes - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 511 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

86 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months 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.

Quantitude

192 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 189 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...

Your Brain at Work

125 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month 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: 7 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...

TILclimate

62 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 125 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 ...

Simple, but Not Easy

148 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 75 ratings
Hello, and welcome to Simple, but Not Easy, where we turn complicated financial developments into actionable ideas. This is a podcast from Morningstar’s Wealth Group, where we equip financial advis...

Psychology America with Dr. Alexandra

99 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
With warmth, heart and a respect for science, Dr. Alexandra and her guests explore questions that come up at all life stages.  Dr. Alexandra is a mother of four and an expert in family systems psyc...

Cadence Podcast: What Music Tells us About the Mind

33 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
Cadence is a podcast about music: how it affects your brain, your life, and the community in which you live. Join our host, cognitive neuroscientist and classically trained opera singer Indre Vis...

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

297 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratings
This is a podcast about deciphering human behavior and understanding why people do the things they do. I, Zach Elwood, talk with people from a wide range of fields about how they make sense of huma...

Opinion Science

161 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
A show about the psychology of opinions, where they come from, and how they change. Interviews with experts and deep dives into areas of research uncover the basic psychology of persuasion, communi...

Everyday Neuro: Psychology and Neuroscience Podcast

25 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
The Everyday Neuro podcast series with Dr Janine Cooper provides knowledge and inspiration to everyone and anyone interested in the fascinating fields of neuroscience, neuropsychology and the human...

Social Media and Politics

182 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Social Media and Politics is a podcast bringing you innovative, first-hand insights into how social media is changing the political game. Subscribe for interviews and analysis with politicians, aca...

AnthroDish

141 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
AnthroDish explores the intersections between our foods, cultures, and identities. Host Dr. Sarah Duignan sits down one-on-one with people in academia, hospitality, farming and agriculture, and mor...

The International Security Podcast

19 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Leading scholars provide insight on urgent policy debates. Jeff Friedman of Dartmouth College interviews contributors to the premiere peer-reviewed journal of security studies. They offer sophistic...

The SIREN Podcast

37 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Welcome to the official podcast channel of the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN) at the University of California, San Francisco.

SHAKED

49 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Podcast & YouTube Show by Derek Van Schaik covering psychology, behavior, criminology, investigations, and unsolved mysteries.

Medicalization

13 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Medicalization is a non-fiction podcast mini-series that bridges the gap between history and science. The podcast's mission is to tell the most fascinating and peculiar stories in medicine while e...

Do We Know Things?

71 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
I’m Dr. Lisa Dawn Hamilton. By day, I’m a sex researcher and psychology professor who teaches about sex.  In this podcast I explore the things we think we know about sex by delving into the resea...

Real World Behavioural Science

46 episodes - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Welcome to the Real World Behavioural Science (RWBS) podcast, where we look at how behavioural and social sciences are being used in the real world to help change the public’s health, for good. T...

Democracy Paradox

228 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago
Is it possible for a democracy to govern undemocratically? Can the people elect an undemocratic leader? Is it possible for democracy to bring about authoritarianism? And if so, what does this say ...

Humanities Matter by Brill

107 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago
With the challenges the world is facing today, the humanities and social sciences are needed and more relevant than ever to help us understand what it means to ‘lead a good life’. The authors and e...

Stories of Impact

96 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago
Featuring stories of new scientific research on human flourishing that translate these basic discoveries into practical tools. Bringing a mix of curiosity, compassion, and creativity that will appe...

Matrix Podcast

95 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago
The Matrix Podcast features interviews with social scientists from across the University of California, Berkeley campus (and beyond). It also features recordings of events, including panels and lec...

TWTSPodcast – Turil

91 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago
I am for you

Pros & Concepts

82 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago
Phil and Steve introduce and discuss ideas that are relevant to the modern world, focusing on topics that primarily deal with society, psychology, philosophy, and technology.

More of a Comment Than a Question

73 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago
A podcast about psychology, academia, culture, and politics, hosted by Rachel Hartman and Paul Connor.

Whiskey & International Relations Theory

50 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago
Patrick and Dan work their way through a piece of international-relations scholarship. And drink whiskey.

Higher Ed Heroes

46 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago
In ‘HigherEd Heroes’, we talk to some of the best teachers about ‘what works’ in their university classrooms in a down-to-earth, jargon-free, and non-technical manner. Our objective is to communica...