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How small changes in language patterns can influence us, with Liz Stokoe
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast - July 21, 2024 12:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsI talk with Liz Stokoe, who studies conversation analysis (CA) and who's the author of the book "Talk: The Science of Conversation." Stokoe studies how language choices can impact us and change our behavior, often without us being aware of that. Topics include: the more surprising and interestin...
78 - Book Review: Waste and the City
Urban Political Podcast - July 17, 2024 16:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life's most neglected issues: sanitation infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the devastating cons...
Why are lie detectors used if they don't work?, with Leonard Saxe
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast - July 14, 2024 17:19 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsA talk with psychologist Leonard Saxe, who is known for, amongst other things, his research into lie detectors (also known as polygraphs). Topics discussed include: why polygraphs and other forms of deception detection are unreliable; the use of polygraphs as a tool to extract information and co...
Exposing Sources and Impacts of Election Disinformation Campaigns
Human Centered - July 08, 2024 17:48 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsLegendary tech journalist John Markoff (CASBS fellow, 2017-18) chats with 2023-24 CASBS fellow Young Mie Kim on her groundbreaking efforts to identify how shadowy groups use algorithms and targeted disinformation campaigns during presidential election cycles; measure their real-world distorting ...
Society and Mental Health - Revisiting Durkheim: Social Integration and Suicide Clusters in U.S. Counties, 2006–2019
Sage Sociology - July 08, 2024 16:45 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratingsAuthor Jessica Brantez discusses the article, "Revisiting Durkheim: Social Integration and Suicide Clusters in U.S. Counties, 2006–2019," published in the July 2024 issue of Society and Mental Health.
Teaching Sociology - Program Review with the Curriculum Mapping Toolkit for Sociology: Assessment of a Publicly Available Resource for Sociology Departments
Sage Sociology - July 03, 2024 16:17 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratingsAuthors Stephen Sweet and Susan J. Ferguson discuss the article, "Program Review with the Curriculum Mapping Toolkit for Sociology: Assessment of a Publicly Available Resource for Sociology Departments," published in the July 2024 issue of Teaching Sociology.
Examining indicators that a video showing harassment was staged
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast - July 03, 2024 09:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis episode examines a video from 2020 that seemed to show a black person being harassed by a racist white woman. The video was shared by the celebrity gossip personality Perez Hilton, and was then picked up by several low-quality news sites, like RawStory.com and DailyDot.com. But the video wa...
161: Cemetery Confessions Gets Cancelled
Cemetery Confessions: A Goth Talk Podcast - July 02, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsThis month we take a look at Gaza and the history of the Middle East. We'll explore the current conflict in the region and discuss how world events shape and impact the goth scene. Our guest this episode is Hani Please consider supporting us on Patreon! (00:00) Intro (4:45) Male Tears - ...
Megan Stevenson on Why Interventions in the Criminal Justice System Don’t Work
Social Science Bites - July 01, 2024 18:02 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 88 ratingsDo policies built around social and behavioral science research actually work? That’s a big, and contentious, question. It’s also almost an existential question for the disciplines involved. It’s also a question that Megan Stevenson, a professor of law and of economics at the University of Virgi...
An Alibi for Ecocide
Landscapes - June 28, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAn apparent "success story" of Amazonian forest conservation motivates a 6-years investigation of the land sparing hypothesis. Dr. Gregory Thaler's new book, Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World, reveals a tragic belief that agricultural intensification will solve our problems of enduring ex...
The awe and horror of existence: a talk with psychologist Kirk Schneider
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast - June 24, 2024 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsA reshare of a 2022 talk I had with existential psychologist Kirk Schneider. We talk about existential psychology and the power of being able to better understand and recognize the core anxieties we all have about existence, such as our fear of death, meaninglessness, isolation, and freedom. Oth...
Episode 77 - Post-Socialist Infrastructure
Urban Political Podcast - June 19, 2024 09:25 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode we talk about garages, trams and trolleybuses! Our guests for this episode, Tauri Tuvikene and Wladimir Sgibnev, help us think about post-socialist mobility in terms of continuities and ruptures. Using examples from Estonia, East Germany, and the former Soviet Union, they question...
The strangeness of life and existential psychology
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast - June 16, 2024 14:22 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThoughts about how an awareness of life's strangeness might impact us, both positively and negatively, and how that might relate to existential psychology concepts. Topics include: how an awareness of life's strangeness might be seen to be a core existential stressor (like the fear of death, or ...
American Sociological Review - Clustered Vulnerabilities: The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence
Sage Sociology - June 04, 2024 16:10 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratingsAuthor Paige L. Sweet discusses the article, "Clustered Vulnerabilities: The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence," published in the June 2024 issue of American Sociological Review.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior - Cumulative Unionization and Physical Health Disparities among Older Adults
Sage Sociology - June 03, 2024 21:57 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratingsAuthors Xiaowen Han and Tom VanHeuvelen discuss the article, "Cumulative Unionization and Physical Health Disparities among Older Adults," published in the June 2024 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
City & Community - Urban Austerity Theory, Politicizing Space, and Cutback Policies across Urban and Rural Communities
Sage Sociology - June 03, 2024 21:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratingsAuthors Linda Lobao and Paige Kelly discuss the article, "Urban Austerity Theory, Politicizing Space, and Cutback Policies across Urban and Rural Communities," published in the June 2024 issue of City & Community.
160: Gen Z vs. Millennials: Who's the Better Goth
Cemetery Confessions: A Goth Talk Podcast - June 03, 2024 16:18 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsCover Photo by Pascal Bauret https://www.instagram.com/pascal.de.paris.fotos/ It’s the battle of decades. How do Gen Z and Millennials define goth differently, has goth lost it’s mystery and magic when we can access everything online, what makes us cringe, where does each group stand on gatek...
Rob Ford on Immigration
Social Science Bites - June 03, 2024 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 88 ratingsBite-sized interviews with top social scientists
Psychology in waiting tables and running a restaurant, with Robin Dibble
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast - June 01, 2024 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsA talk with Robin Dibble, an experienced Albuquerque-area service industry professional who’s worked in every aspect of the business, from waiting tables, to cooking, to managing restaurants and night clubs. Topics include: psychological strategies servers use to get more tips; how menu desig...
The Emotions of Dyadic Relationships: An Interview with Jenna Wells and Felicia Zerwas
Matrix Podcast - May 31, 2024 17:22 - 41 minutesThis episode of the Matrix Podcast features an interview with Jenna Wells and Felicia Zerwas, who at the time of the interview were Ph.D. candidates in the UC Berkeley Department of Psychology. The interview was conducted by Julia Sizek, Matrix Postdoctoral Fellow. Jenna Wells is currently an ...
The Gold Standard of Economic Historians
Human Centered - May 31, 2024 15:15 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsStefan Link, a 2023-24 CASBS fellow, chats with Barry Eichengreen, a 1996-97 CASBS fellow and world renowned for his expertise at the nexus of international economics and economic history. They discuss some of Eichengreen's most prominent works — including "The European Economy Since 1945," whic...
Sugar and the Transformation of the American West: An Interview with Bernadette Pérez
Matrix Podcast - May 30, 2024 03:59 - 53 minutesFor this episode of the Matrix Podcast, J.T. Jamieson, a 2022-2023 Matrix Communications Scholar, interviewed Bernadette Pérez, Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Pérez is a historian of the United States who specializes in the histories of Latinx and Indigenous peoples in the West....
Sociological Theory - From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory
Sage Sociology - May 28, 2024 18:26 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratingsAuthor Ali Meghji discusses the article "From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory," published in the June 2024 issue of Sociological Theory.
There and Back Again
Cherry Picking with Alexia Benn - May 22, 2024 07:00 - 55 minutesHello dear friends and welcome back to the podcast! It's been a year, hasn't it? Time flies when you have no other choice than to live each day out in a perpetual cycle embodying Sisyphus. How nice it is to be able to catch up like this amidst it all. I know life has changed for me since I l...
Two former congresspeople, a Democrat and a Republican, discuss toxic polarization
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast - May 21, 2024 00:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsI talk to former members of the House of Representatives Luke Messer (Republican) and Elizabeth Esty (Democrat). We talk about: political polarization; their experiences being in congress during such a highly polarized period of time; their ideas for reducing toxic polarization, and more. Lea...
Music Mausoleum: Attrition
Cemetery Confessions: A Goth Talk Podcast - May 20, 2024 16:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsOn this episode we discuss why no one knows what the hell 'darkwave' is, explore Trae's piano fetish, oh and we review some albums as well. Of note: This episode was recorded before the tragic death of Steve Albini, which is why this was not brought up during our discussion of his various proj...
Contexts - Why Believe Conspiracy Theories?
Sage Sociology - May 15, 2024 15:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratingsAuthors Meggan M. Jordan and Jennifer M. Whitmer discuss the article, "Why Believe Conspiracy Theories?" published in the Winter 2024 issue of Contexts.
Aphantasia, internal monologue, and the challenges of describing thought, with Russell Hurlburt
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast - May 13, 2024 23:37 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsA talk with Russell Hurlburt, who’s researched inner experience for more than five decades. He is the author of 6 books and many articles on the topic of mental experience. Topics discussed include: The difficulty of describing inner experience; the ambiguities in the classification of “aphantas...
Episode 60: Adult Friendship (Pt.2) – Punching the Loneliness Epidemic in the Face
Pros & Concepts - May 12, 2024 13:00 - 1 hourPlease leave us a review on apple podcasts! (https://podcasts.apple.com/fm/podcast/concepts/id1555495791) For this episode's show notes, click here (https://conceptspodcast.com/?p=381) or go to https://conceptspodcast.com/ Reach out to us at [email protected]!
Socius - The Status Foundations of Conspiracy Beliefs
Sage Sociology - May 08, 2024 17:14 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratingsAuthor Saverio Roscigno discusses the article, "The Status Foundations of Conspiracy Beliefs" published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.
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