Social Sciences Podcasts

Mysterious Universe

221 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days 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...

Anything Ghost Show

71 episodes - Latest episode: about 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...

Blurry Photos

428 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months 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: 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...

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

1,575 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,...

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.

Your Parenting Mojo - Respectful, research-based parenting ideas to help kids thrive

263 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 393 ratings
Jen Lumanlan always thought infancy would be the hardest part of parenting. Now she has a toddler and finds a whole new set of tools are needed, there are hundreds of books to read, and academic r...

Speaking of Jung: Interviews with Jungian Analysts

164 episodes - Latest episode: 5 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: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 268 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

131 episodes - Latest episode: about 8 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 222 ratings
Three licensed therapists breakdown and analyze popular movies and characters from the perspectives of an individual, child, and a marriage and family therapist. Become a supporter of this podcast...

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...

Other Life

244 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 172 ratings
I study the lives of the wildest writers who ever lived.

ArchaeoEd Podcast

48 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 163 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: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 158 ratings
Candid discussions and practical advice for the modern woman

Wise Guy Talks

85 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★ - 139 ratings
This is the podcast where everthing is in bounds. Social, political, philosophical, to the sublime.

Probable Causation

181 episodes - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★ - 129 ratings
A show about law, economics, and crime.

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 ...

Raising Daughters

236 episodes - Latest episode: 9 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

171 episodes - Latest episode: 8 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...

The TBRI Podcast

67 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month 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 ...

NASW Social Work Talks

117 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 99 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...

UCLA Housing Voice

82 episodes - Latest episode: 13 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...

Why We Do What We Do

274 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 77 ratings
Create an enjoyable listener experience about psychological concepts that anyone can easily consume.

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...

This Anthro Life

225 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 71 ratings
This Anthro Life is the premiere go-to Anthropology Podcast that fuses human insights with cultural storytelling. We equip you with a deep understanding of the human experience to revolutionize you...

Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Report

237 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 70 ratings
The week in autism research discoveries

American Journal of Psychiatry Audio

205 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 70 ratings
Each episode of AJP Audio brings you an in-depth look at one of the articles featured in that month’s issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry, the official journal of the American Psychiatric A...