Social Sciences Podcasts

Play Therapy Community

112 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 70 ratings
This podcast was created to help parents around the world with the “biggies” of family life. Play Therapy Community will present a fresh, insightful episode once a week, usually on Thursday mornin...

American Journal of Psychiatry Audio

202 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 69 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...

This Anthro Life

213 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 67 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...

Birth Words: Language For a Better Birth

116 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 66 ratings
Birth worker Sara Pixton draws on her backgrounds in applied linguistics and social work to explore the power of words during the childbearing season and how we can all come together to better care...

Mentally Flexible

61 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Join psychotherapist Tom Parkes as he has meaningful conversations to help you build mental flexibility. Each episode will explore topics related to psychology, mental health, and creativity. With...

Black People Die By Suicide Too Podcast

203 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratings
Black People Die By Suicide Too Podcast  (formerly Fireflies Unite Podcast with Kea) is hosted by T-Kea Blackman and Jordan Scott. Their mission is simple; normalize the conversation about suicide...

Stanford Psychology Podcast

153 episodes - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★ - 61 ratings
The student-led Stanford Psychology Podcast invites leading psychologists to talk about what’s on their mind lately. Join Eric Neumann, Anjie Cao, Kate Petrova, Bella Fascendini,  Joseph Outa and ...

Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast

58 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 59 ratings
Yale Law School professors Samuel Moyn and David Schleicher interview legal scholars and dig into the debates heard inside law school halls.

Twisting the Plot

209 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 58 ratings
Plot twists don’t just happen in novels or the movies, they show up in our everyday lives, whether we want them or not. Each week Dr. Cecilia Dintino and Psychotherapist Hannah Murray Starobin will...

Everything Hertz

178 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Methodology, scientific life, and bad language. Co-hosted by Dr. Dan Quintana (University of Oslo) and Dr. James Heathers (Cipher Skin)

Attached Podcast

91 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
A podcast about the loved ones we’re attached to and the good, the bad, and the ugly advice about those relationships that maybe we shouldn’t be attached to. We here at Attached want to share ways...

Cultures of Energy

219 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy ...

Podcast Without an Audience

81 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 53 ratings
Hello Teamsters! Join Carey Ann Watkins and Allison Easley as they navigate through psychological and historical topics to discover the truth about the age-old question; are all things connected? N...

Cryptic Chronicles

100 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
If you love the weird, creepy or unexplainable, then this is for you. Cryptic Chronicles is a podcast for like minded free thinkers interested in the mysteries of existence.

Psychology America with Dr. Alexandra

98 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months 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...

Two Shrinks Pod

99 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 50 ratings
Australian psychologists Amy & Hunter nerd out about all things psychology, from Star Wars to Social Anxiety. Listen in for an independent pod with great chemistry between therapists working in o...

FUTUREPROOF.

239 episodes - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
Welcome to FUTUREPROOF. We're the podcast that delves into the future. From Augmented Reality to Artificial Intelligence to Smart Cities to Internet of Things to Virtual Reality, we speak with some...

Porn Talk

123 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 48 ratings
End the porn habit. Reclaim your power! It is not just about breaking addictions it's about breaking belief systems. We are bound by self imposed and societal chains. Break the chains, get empo...

Spooky Psychology

52 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
Two licensed therapists discuss the spookier side of psychology. If you're into macabre topics, dark humor, and learning about behavior and psychology-- this podcast is for you!

In the Open

240 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
Join Mental Health America as we have open conversations about mental health. We're a group of people who want to change the way our communities talk about mental health. On this podcast, we share ...

Cadence Podcast: What Music Tells us About the Mind

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

Against Japanism

31 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
This podcast seeks to challenge the commonly held assumptions about Japan as harmonious, homogeneous, and traditional by recasting its history as a history of conflict and change, as the history of...

StocktonAfterClass

334 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
Ron Stockton was a professor of political science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for 48 years. His specialty was non-western politics and political change. He taught classes on the Israeli...

Systematic Leader

188 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
Leaders need processes and systems to make good decisions. The Systematic Leader podcast interviews leaders (CEOs, Authors, and Enterpreneurs). They share their best frameworks so you can make bet...

Good Fire

24 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
In this podcast we explore the concept of fire as a tool for ecological health and cultural empowerment by indigenous people around the globe. Good Fire is a term used to describe fire that is lit ...

Rigged

10 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
In Rigged, we’ll rummage through the bag of tricks used by PR to shape the world you live in. Over the last century, these tricks have rigged the media, the government… society, really...with somet...

Changing Minds with Owen Fitzpatrick

436 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Changing Minds Podcast is a podcast about thinking for a change. Each week, Psychologist Owen Fitzpatrick will be exploring how you can use behavioral science to learn how to run your brain better,...

The Unconstrained Podcast

427 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★ - 38 ratings
Join us on the journey towards financial independence and being unconstrained. Your host, Myles Wakeham, explores the art of financial sustainability and individual sovereignty resulting in a debt...

CSPI Podcast

147 episodes - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Discussions with CSPI scholars and leading thinkers in science, technology, and politics. www.cspicenter.com

The Trauma Tapes

61 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
A podcast about overwhelming experiences and how to cope with the traces those experiences leave.