Stanford Psychology Podcast
159 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 64 ratingsThe 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 Julia Rathmann-Bloch as they chat with their guests about their latest exciting work. Every week, an episode will bring you new findings from psychological science and how they can be applied to everyday life. The opinions and views expressed in this podcast represent those of the speaker and not necessarily Stanford's. Subscribe at stanfordpsypod.substack.com. Let us hear your thoughts at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @StanfordPsyPod. Visit our website https://stanfordpsychologypodcast.com. Soundtrack: Corey Zhou (UCSD). Logo: Sarah Wu (Stanford)
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45 - Tiffany Brannon: Moving Toward More Inclusive Institutions through "Pride and Prejudice"
May 12, 2022 18:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBAnjie chats with Dr. Tiffany N. Brannon, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA. She directs Culture and Contact Lab. Her research examines socio-cultural identities in negatively stereotyped groups such as African-Americans and Latino-Americans; and she investigates the potential for these identities to serve as a psychological resource— one that can facilitate a variety of individual and intergroup benefits. In this episode, we discuss her recent article titled “Pri...
45 - Tiffany Brannon: Moving Toward More Inclusive Institutions through "Pride and Prejudice"
May 12, 2022 18:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBAnjie chats with Dr. Tiffany N. Brannon, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA. She directs Culture and Contact Lab. Her research examines socio-cultural identities in negatively stereotyped groups such as African-Americans and Latino-Americans; and she investigates the potential for these identities to serve as a psychological resource— one that can facilitate a variety of individual and intergroup benefits. In this episode, we discuss her recent article titled “Pri...
44 - Lasana Harris: Moving Beyond Stereotypes When Encountering Strangers
May 05, 2022 16:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBJoseph chats with Dr. Lasana Harris about how using traits rather than stereotypes when thinking about strangers can help combat social bias. They also address questions like when is it useful to make a situational versus a dispositional attribution, what are the differences between social and personality psychology, and some advice for academics entering psychology. Dr. Harris is a Professor of Social Neuroscience in Experimental Psychology at University College London. He got his undergra...
43 - Henrike Moll: The Nuances of Theory of Mind - How Young Children Understand Others' Perspectives and Beliefs
April 28, 2022 15:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBBella chats with Dr. Henrike (Henny) Moll. Henny is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, where she directs the Minds in Development lab. Henny's primary research focus lies in children's understanding of perspectives and their ability to engage in joint attention. She studies how infants and young children come to understand the world and the role that others play in introducing them to the world. Her studies are informed by insights from philosophy...
43 - Henrike Moll: The Nuances of Theory of Mind - How Young Children Understand Others' Perspectives and Beliefs
April 28, 2022 15:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBBella chats with Dr. Henrike (Henny) Moll. Henny is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, where she directs the Minds in Development lab. Henny's primary research focus lies in children's understanding of perspectives and their ability to engage in joint attention. She studies how infants and young children come to understand the world and the role that others play in introducing them to the world. Her studies are informed by insights from philosophy...
42 - Anuj Shah: Knowledge of Strangers and Community Policing
April 21, 2022 18:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBJoseph speaks with Prof. Anuj Shah about a lab experiment on social perceptions, in particular how when we learn a few details about a stranger, we seem to feel like they know and understand us too. They also talk about a field experiment in the New York City housing developments which affected social perceptions and was linked to lower rates of crime after people were provided with some details about neighborhood police officers. Anuj is an associate professor of Behavioral Science at the...
41 - Vanessa Bohns: You Have More Influence Than You Think
April 14, 2022 16:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBEric chats with Vanessa Bohns, social psychologist and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University. Vanessa studies how people influence one another, and how they can underestimate how much influence they really have. Vanessa has been a Visiting Scholar at the NYU Stern School of Business and has taught at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. In this episode,...
40 - Ashley Thomas: How Children Use Saliva Sharing to Infer Close Relationships
April 07, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBJoseph and Ashley talk about how infants, toddlers and children think about social relationships, how they track who is connected and how they are connected, what we can learn about children from studying animal behavior, and how children in other cultures might think differently about social relationships. Dr. Ashley Thomas is a postdoctoral researcher in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT). She is interested in what infants, toddlers and childre...
39 - Robert Rosenthal: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies And The Pygmalion Effect
March 31, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 62 MBEric chats with Robert Rosenthal, Professor of Psychology at University of California Riverside. Bob is the former Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard. Bob has gained worldwide fame for his work on self-fulfilling prophecies: “When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behavior more likely to occur.” Over 50 years ago, Bob introduced the Pygmalion Effect many psychology students now read about in their textbooks: when teacher...
38 - Angie Johnston: How Studying Dogs (!) Helps Us Understand Human Social Learning
March 24, 2022 22:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBIn this episode, Anjie chats with Dr. Angie Johnston, who is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College, where she directs the Canine Cognition Center and Social Learning Laboratory. Her works take a comparative approach: comparing human learning to domestic dogs’ learning, as a way to examine which aspects of human learning are unique and which are shared among species. In this episode, we are going to talk about one of her recent works that try to answer a question t...
38 - Angie Johnston: How Studying Dogs (!) Help Us Understand Human Social Learning
March 24, 2022 22:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBIn this episode, Anjie chats with Dr. Angie Johnston, who is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College, where she directs the Canine Cognition Center and Social Learning Laboratory. Her works take a comparative approach: comparing human learning to domestic dogs’ learning, as a way to examine which aspects of human learning are unique and which are shared among species. In this episode, we are going to talk about one of her recent works that try to answer a question t...
38 - Angie Johnston: How Studying Dogs (!) Helps Us Understand Human Social Learning
March 24, 2022 22:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBIn this episode, Anjie chats with Dr. Angie Johnston, who is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College, where she directs the Canine Cognition Center and Social Learning Laboratory. Her works take a comparative approach: comparing human learning to domestic dogs’ learning, as a way to examine which aspects of human learning are unique and which are shared among species. In this episode, we are going to talk about one of her recent works that try to answer a question t...
37 - Molly Crockett: Moral Outrage, Trust During Covid, And Incentives in Academia
March 17, 2022 16:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBEric chats with Molly Crockett, Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale University. Molly studies how people make moral decisions, both in the lab and in everyday life. Their lab’s research has won numerous awards around the world, and Molly will be moving their lab to Princeton University in summer 2022. In this wide-ranging conversation, Molly first chats about their recent work on social media. Are online platforms making us more outraged? How should we reshape social media for a mor...
36 - Gillian Sandstrom: Talking to Strangers
March 10, 2022 16:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBKate chats with Gillian Sandstrom, a Senior Lecturer in the Psychology of Kindness at the University of Sussex and the Director of the Sussex Centre for Research on Kindness. Gillian’s work focuses on the benefits of minimal social interactions with “weak ties” and strangers, and the barriers that prevent people from connecting with others. In this episode, Gillian tells Kate about the misconceptions that prevent people from talking to strangers and the surprising benefits that can come from...
35 - Diego Gambetta: Trust, Distrust, and Cynicism
March 03, 2022 20:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBEric chats with Diego Gambetta, social scientist and Carlo Alberto Chair at the University of Turin. Diego has studied topics as diverse as trust, the mafia, and violent extremism. His work has been widely cited around the world. Diego has held past appointments at numerous universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, and Stanford. In this episode, Eric and Diego chat about trust, distrust, and cynicism. Diego explains what it means to trust someone, and how distrust is more complex t...
34 - Fiery Cushman: The Possibility of Violence
February 24, 2022 21:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBJoseph Outa chats with Professor Fiery Cushman, professor of psychology at Harvard University. Fiery directs the Moral Psychology Research Lab where he investigates how people make decisions in social contexts; he focuses on questions like why and how did punishment evolve, what are the emotional systems that prevent us from doing harm, and how do humans make sense of each other’s behaviors. He received his BA and PhD from Harvard University and has been bestowed with various awards and fell...
33 - Jon Jachimowicz: Should You Follow Your Passion?
February 17, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBEric chats with Jon Jachimowicz, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Jon studies people’s passion for work, specifically how people can pursue, fall out of, and maintain their passion over time. He also studies how people perceive inequality. Jon has won numerous academic awards and was listed as a Poets & Quants 40 under 40 honoree and Forbes 30 under 30. In this episode, Eric and Jon chat about passion narratives at work and in life more generally. ...
32 - Ethan Kross: Why We Talk to Ourselves and How to Make Our Inner Voices Work in Our Favor
February 10, 2022 15:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBKate chats with Ethan Kross, an award-winning professor of Psychology and Management & Organizations at the University of Michigan, and the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. Ethan’s research focuses on the inner conversations people have with themselves and the impacts of such conversations on health and well-being. In this episode, Ethan shares insights from his best-selling book Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It. Ethan talks about the ...
31 - Tom Gilovich: Judging Individuals, Judging Groups
February 03, 2022 21:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBEric chats with Tom Gilovich, Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. Tom’s Judgment and Belief Lab studies how people evaluate the evidence of their everyday experience to make judgments, form beliefs, and decide on courses of action. Why do people make seemingly wrong decisions? When do they misread evidence? Tom’s research has been widely cited around the world, and he is the author of multiple books, including The Wisest One in the Room, co-authored with Lee Ross. In this episod...
30 - Claudia Haase: Emotion Regulation in Couples
January 27, 2022 20:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBKate chats with Claudia Haase, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Claudia’s research examines pathways towards happy and healthy development across the life span with a particular focus on emotions and emotion regulation. In this episode, Claudia shares insights from her work on romantic couples and how they navigate the emotional ups and downs of close relationships. Claudia also offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the methods h...
29 - Axel Cleeremans: The Study of Consciousness, Cognition, and Decision-Making
January 20, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBBella chats with Prof. Axel Cleeremans, professor of Cognitive Science and research director with the National Fund for Scientific Research at the Free University of Brussels. He directs the Center for Research in Cognition & Neuroscience and leads the Consciousness, Cognition and Computation Group. He is also the field chief editor at the Frontiers in Psychology journal, which by far has the most multi-disciplinary editorial board with more than 11,000 researchers from all over the world. H...
29 - Axel Cleeremans: The Study of Consciousness, Cognition, and Decision-Making
January 20, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBBella chats with Prof. Axel Cleeremans, professor of Cognitive Science and research director with the National Fund for Scientific Research at the Free University of Brussels. He directs the Center for Research in Cognition & Neuroscience and leads the Consciousness, Cognition and Computation Group. He is also the field chief editor at the Frontiers in Psychology journal, which by far has the most multi-disciplinary editorial board with more than 11,000 researchers from all over the world. H...
28 - Kateri McRae: How Emotions are Generated
January 13, 2022 18:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBKate chats with Kateri McRae, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver and the director of the Automaticity, Affect, Control & Thought Lab. Kateri's work focuses on emotion, cognition, and the interplay between them. In this episode, Kateri shares insights from her recently published quantitative case study of specific phobia for clothing buttons. Kateri also discusses the broader implications of her work for research on the different ways in which emotions can be gener...
27 - David Lagnado: How Causal Reasoning Can Help Us Make Better Judgments and Solve Criminal Cases
January 06, 2022 17:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBBella chats with Prof. Dave Lagnado, a professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences in the Department of Experimental Psychology at UCL. Dave's research focuses on how people use causal models to draw inferences and make decisions. He has written over 100 articles and co-authored a textbook on the psychology of decision making. He has worked with US intelligence, the UK government and various legal and financial institutions, looking at methods to improve reasoning and decision making. In ...
26 - Richard Wilkinson: Inequality, Health, and Positive Psychology
December 30, 2021 17:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBMarianne and Eric chat with Professor Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham. Richard is author most recently of the book The Inner Level, and co-founder of The Equality Trust. In this episode, Richard shares his research on the detrimental and wide-ranging psychological effects of income inequality. He discusses how inequality impoverishes everyone's health, trust, and psychological well-being, even for those "winning" in the income di...
25 - Brian Nosek: The Pursuit of Open and Reproducible Science
December 23, 2021 22:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBJoseph chats with Brian Nosek, co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science. The Center's mission is to increase the openness, integrity and reproducibility of scientific research. Brian is also a professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia where he runs the Implicit Social Cognition Lab. Brian studies the gap between values and practices with the goal of understanding why the gap exists, its consequences and how to reduce it. Brian co-founded Project Implicit, ...
24 - Paul Rozin: Improving Psychology
December 16, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBEric chats with Paul Rozin, Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Paul is one of the world’s leading experts in a variety of fields, ranging from cultural to moral to social psychology. He has twice been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recipient of the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award for 2007. In this episode, Pa...
23 - Special Episode: What Is It Like to Get (Paid) Summer Research Experience at CSLI?
December 09, 2021 23:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIn this episode, Natalia, a former CSLI intern, chats with Erica Yoon, the teaching coordinator for the CSLI Summer Internship Program. Along with hearing from other former interns, they go over the structure and overarching goals of the program, and how it fits into the overall mission of the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Erica is particularly excited about attracting diverse students to the program and offers some insight into the application process. For mor...
23 - Special Episode: What is it like to get (paid) summer research experience at CSLI?
December 09, 2021 23:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIn this episode, Natalia, a former CSLI intern, chats with Erica Yoon, the teaching coordinator for the CSLI Summer Internship Program. Along with hearing from other former interns, they go over the structure and overarching goals of the program, and how it fits into the overall mission of the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Erica is particularly excited about attracting diverse students to the program and offers some insight into the application process. For mor...
22 - Kelly McGonigal: Communicating Psychology
December 02, 2021 17:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBEric chats with Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford who specializes in understanding the mind-body connection. She is the best-selling author of The Willpower Instinct and The Upside of Stress. Her TED talk, "How to Make Stress Your Friend," is one of the most viewed TED talks of all time, with over 27 million views. Kelly’s latest book, The Joy of Movement, explores why physical exercise is a powerful antidote to the modern epidemics of depression, anxiety, and l...
21 - James Gross: Building Emotion Regulation Skills During the Pandemic and Beyond
November 18, 2021 18:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBKate chats with James Gross, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Psychophysiology Lab. His work focuses on emotions: What they are, how they unfold over time, and how people regulate them in different contexts. In this episode, James shares insights from a recent study examining the effects of brief emotion regulation interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic across 87 countries. James also discusses the broader implications of his work and talks ...
20 - Jillian Jordan: Victimhood and Morality
November 11, 2021 16:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBEric chats with Jillian Jordan, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Jillian’s work has focused on human morality and the role that reputation plays in shaping cooperative behavior. Her fascinating research has integrated methods from psychology, behavioral economics, and evolutionary game theory and has been featured in outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Guardian. In this episode, Jillian discusses her new paper on the Virtuo...
19 - Michal Strahilevitz: Teaching Happiness
November 04, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBIn this episode, Anjie chats with Dr. Michal Strahilevitz. Michal is currently a marketing professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her research focuses on how emotions affect decision-making in a variety of contexts. In addition to being an enthusiastic researcher, Michal is an amazing teacher. She has won teaching awards from three different universities. blogs for Psychology Today and is often quoted in the global media outlets. She is particularly passionate about helping people ...
19 - Michal Strahilevitz: Teaching Happiness
November 04, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBIn this episode, Anjie chats with Dr. Michal Strahilevitz. Michal is currently a marketing professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her research focuses on how emotions affect decision-making in a variety of contexts. In addition to being an enthusiastic researcher, Michal is an amazing teacher. She has won teaching awards from three different universities. blogs for Psychology Today and is often quoted in the global media outlets. She is particularly passionate about helping people ...
18 - Abigail Marsh: Surprising Predictors of Everyday Kindness
October 28, 2021 20:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBEric chats with Abigail Marsh, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Georgetown. Her work has focused on phenomena as diverse as empathy, altruism, aggression, and psychopathy. In 2017, Abby published her book, The Fear Factor, describing her fascinating research with extreme altruists on the one hand and individuals with psychopathy on the other. She is the former President of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. In this episode, Abby challenges the common assumption that...
17 - Scott Barry Kaufman: The Light Triad - A Psychology of Everyday Saints
October 21, 2021 16:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBEric chats with Scott Barry Kaufman, cognitive scientist and humanistic psychologist renowned for a series of groundbreaking books such as Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined, Wired to Create, and, most recently, Transcend. Scott is founder and director of the Center for the Science of Human Potential and has taught various classes at universities such as Columbia, Yale, NYU, and the University of Pennsylvania. He hosts the #1 psychology podcast in the world, “The Psychology Podcast,” with over...
16 - Erin Westgate: Why People Would Rather Shock Themselves Than Sit Alone with Their Thoughts
October 14, 2021 16:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBEric chats with Erin Westgate, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida. The work from Erin’s lab has focused on topics such as thinking for pleasure and boredom and has been featured in outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, and the BBC. Erin has famously found that people would rather shock themselves than sit alone with their thoughts for a few minutes! In this episode, Erin discusses the question we all have in mind when we hear about this finding: Why? More pre...
15 - Robert Sapolsky: Why Society Would Be Fairer If We Stopped Believing in Free Will
October 07, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBEric chats with Robert Sapolsky, Stanford Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery. Robert is a world-renowned academic and author of highly successful books such as A Primate’s Memoir, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, and Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. His Stanford lectures were among the first to be made available online across the entire university and have been watched tens of millions of times. Robert is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. He is a highly engaging tea...
14 - Alison Gopnik: How Can Understanding Childhood Help Us Build Better AI?
October 01, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBIn this episode, Anjie chats with Alison Gopnik, Professor at the Department of Psychology and Affiliate Professor at Department of Philosophy at UC Berkeley. Alison is not only a great cognitive scientist and philosopher who has made many groundbreaking contributions to the field, but also a great science communicator. Alison authored multiple bestselling books, including The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby, The Gardener, and the Carpenter. She also writes widely about cogniti...
13 - Wade Davis: A More Tolerant And Compassionate Mindset For Everyday Life
September 23, 2021 16:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBEric chats with Wade Davis, Professor of Anthropology at UBC. Wade has a fantastically diverse background: Next to being a prolific academic with 22 published books, he was also a long-time Explorer-In-Residence at the National Geographic Society, taking him to what seems like every country on this planet. He is a professional photographer and has produced 18 documentary films based on his travels. In 2018, he became an honorary citizen of Colombia. He has become famous around the world advo...
12 - Tobias Gerstenberg: Whose Fault Is It? Causal Judgments in Everyday Life
September 16, 2021 18:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBEric chats with Tobias Gerstenberg, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford where he runs the Causality in Cognition Lab. His lab focuses on the cognitive processes involved in causal judgments: How are physical events caused? How do we use counterfactual thinking to attribute causation? In this episode, Tobi talks about his recent paper summarizing these lines of research. In the second half, he discusses broader implications: how do we make causal judgments in the social and moral ...
11 - Special Episode: The Past, Present and Future of the Paths to Ph.D. Event
September 08, 2021 20:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBFor this week’s episode, we planned something special. Each year, the Stanford psychology department hosts Paths to Ph.D., a free, open-to-public information session on how to apply to Ph.D. programs and research positions in psychology. This year’s event is scheduled on Saturday, October 16th from 10:00 am-5:00 pm and the application deadline is on September 17th. In this episode, we invited Lauren Borchers, a rising 4thyear Ph.D. student in the department, and Dr. Camilla Griffiths, a rece...
11 - Special Episode: The Past, Present and Future of the Paths to Ph.D. event
September 08, 2021 20:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBFor this week’s episode, we planned something special. Each year, the Stanford psychology department hosts Paths to Ph.D., a free, open-to-public information session on how to apply to Ph.D. programs and research positions in psychology. This year’s event is scheduled on Saturday, October 16th from 10:00 am-5:00 pm and the application deadline is on September 17th. In this episode, we invited Lauren Borchers, a rising 4thyear Ph.D. student in the department, and Dr. Camilla Griffiths, a rece...
10 - Hyowon Gweon: What Makes Us So Good at Learning from Each Other?
August 28, 2021 23:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBIn this episode, Anjie chats with Hyo Gweon, an associate professor at Stanford Psychology Department. Hyo directs Social Learning Lab, where the research focus is our abilities to learn from others and teach others. In this episode, she will share with us a very recent review article that came out on Trends in Cognitive Sciences titled "Inferential social learning: Cognitive foundations of human social learning and teaching". Is learning from others really that different from learning abou...
10 - Hyowon Gweon: What Makes Us So Good at Learning from Each Other?
August 28, 2021 23:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBIn this episode, Anjie chats with Hyo Gweon, an associate professor at Stanford Psychology Department. Hyo directs Social Learning Lab, where the research focus is our abilities to learn from others and teach others. In this episode, she will share with us a very recent review article that came out on Trends in Cognitive Sciences titled "Inferential social learning: Cognitive foundations of human social learning and teaching". Is learning from others really that different from learning abou...
09 - Alan Fiske: The Problems with Labeling Emotions, And the Case for a New Emotion
August 26, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBEric chats with Alan Fiske, Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. Alan is the author of multiple books, including Structures of Social Life and Virtuous Violence. Alan discusses why labeling emotions can often lead us to misunderstand our emotions. He then makes the case for a new emotion: Kama Muta, or “being moved, touched, stirred, having a rapturous experience, or tender feelings toward cuteness.” Eric and Alan discuss newest work on Kama Muta, produced by the Kama Mut...
08 - Judith Fan: The Wonders of Playing With Blocks
August 14, 2021 23:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBIn this episode, Anjie chats with Judy Fan, Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Judy’s research is at the intersection of computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. In this episode, she discusses a new line of research in her lab exploring how people learn about objects by trying to build them from scratch. She and her team recruited people online to play a game where they aimed to reconstruct various block towers and analyzed the ...
08 - Judith Fan: The Wonders of Playing With Blocks
August 14, 2021 23:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBIn this episode, Anjie chats with Judy Fan, Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Judy’s research is at the intersection of computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. In this episode, she discusses a new line of research in her lab exploring how people learn about objects by trying to build them from scratch. She and her team recruited people online to play a game where they aimed to reconstruct various block towers and analyzed the ...
07 - Ovul Sezer: The Case for Sharing Good News
August 12, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBEric chats with Ovul Sezer, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at UNC Kenan-Flagler. Ovul’s research focuses on impression mismanagement, or the mistakes we make as we try to impress others. Her research has been featured in outlets such as Time Magazine and Forbes Magazine. In this episode, Ovul discusses her recent paper on Hiding Success: People are often reluctant to share good news with others, but Ovul’s research suggests that this can harm their relationships and create ...
06 - Deon Benton : What a Computational Model Can Tell Us About Babies' Inner (Moral) Life?
August 01, 2021 03:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBIn this episode, Anjie chats with Deon Benton, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College. He directs the Causality, Mind, and Computational Modeling Lab. Deon investigates causal learning in infants and children with a particular focus on those mechanisms and processes that support such learning. He uses both behavioral research and computational (connectionist) modeling to examine this topic. In this episode, he will be sharing with us his recent research on using a connectioni...