Social Sciences Podcasts

Invisibilia

105 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 21.5K ratings
Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your o...

Personality Hacker Podcast

656 episodes - Latest episode: 4 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...

Consider Before Consuming

143 episodes - Latest episode: 9 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

1,507 episodes - Latest episode: about 17 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 543 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

219 episodes - Latest episode: 2 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

83 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 403 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 1 month 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...

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.

Your Brain at Work

120 episodes - Latest episode: 4 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...

Quantitude

188 episodes - Latest episode: 10 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...

System Speak: Dissociative Identity Disorder ( Multiple Personality Disorder ), Complex Trauma , and Dissociation

536 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 174 ratings
Diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder at age 36, Emma and her system share what they learn along the way about DID, dissociation, trauma, and mental health. Educational, supportive, inclus...

The Testing Psychologist Podcast

438 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 174 ratings
Helping psychologists, neuropsychologists, and mental health professionals start, grow, and scale psychological testing services in private practice.

Other Life

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

ArchaeoEd Podcast

46 episodes - Latest episode: 18 days 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...

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

163 episodes - Latest episode: 23 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...

The TBRI Podcast

57 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months 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

157 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months 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

114 episodes - Latest episode: 9 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

140 episodes - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
Bite-sized interviews with top social scientists

Heterodox Out Loud

90 episodes - Latest episode: 9 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

76 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 83 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...