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Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

187 episodes

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 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 stanfordpsychpodcast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @StanfordPsyPod. Visit our website https://stanfordpsychologypodcast.com. Soundtrack: Corey Zhou (UCSD). Logo: Sarah Wu (Stanford)

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  1. 186 - Ian Gotlib: Understanding Depression

    · 49 min

    This week, Katia is joined by Ian Gotlib, a professor of psychology at Stanford University. In this episode, we explore risk factors for depression, its connection to other disorders, and what individuals can do to…

  2. 185 - Brian Knutson: What Neuroscience Reveals About Our Decisions

    · 55 min

    This week, Katia Kriakova has a conversation with Brian Knutson, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University. In this episode, we explore the neuroscience of decision-making, how brain activity…

  3. 184 - Tamar Schapiro: What Philosophy Can(not) Tell us About Children, Adults, and the Root of All Evil

    · 49 min

    In this week’s episode, Julie and Adani chat with Tamar Schapiro, professor of philosophy at MIT! Tamar is interested in a wide range of things, from what it means to make good decisions in everyday life to ethical…

  4. 183 - William Damon: How to Live a Purposeful Life

    · 51 min

    This week, Katia Kriakova has a conversation with William Damon, a professor at Stanford University. He is one of the world's leading researchers on human development across the lifespan and has pioneered the…

  5. 182 - Bill Burnett: How to Design a Meaningful Life

    · 1 h 08 min

    This week, Katia has a conversation with Bill Burnett, an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He is the co-founder of Stanford's Life Design Lab and also the co-author of Designing Your Life and How to Live a…

  6. 181 - Nomisha Kurian: Critical Hope for the Future of Children & AI

    · 50 min

    Adani chats with Nomisha Kurian, Assistant Professor in Education Studies at the University of Warwick, Associate Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and Associate…

  7. 180 - Andrew Lampinen: Translating Cognitive Psychology to AI

    · 39 min · Episode 180

    In this episode, Elizabeth chats with Dr. Andrew Lampinen as a part of our Alumni in Industry series. Andrew is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Prior to joining Anthropic, he worked as a Staff…

  8. 179 - Cynthia Osborne: Translating Evidence Into Early Childhood Policy

    · 53 min

    Adani chats with Cynthia Osborne, Professor at Vanderbilt University and Executive Director of the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center. Prof. Osborne’s work focuses on translating developmental science into effective,…

  9. 178 - Julia Nolte: Why We Avoid Difficult Decisions

    · 1 h 01 min

    This week, Enna chats with Dr. Julia Nolte, Assistant Professor of Economic Psychology at Tilburg University. Julia’s research examines how information management, risk perception, and decision-making change across…

  10. 177 - Alison Gopnik: How Can Understanding Childhood Help Us Build Better AI? (REAIR)

    · 41 min

    In this re-air (but more timely than ever!) episode from 2021, Anjie chats with Alison Gopnik, Professor at the Department of Psychology and Affiliate Professor at Department of Philosophy at UC Berkeley. Alison is not…

  11. 176 - Elizabeth Bonawitz: How to Have Fun While Studying How Children Learn so Much From so Little

    · 46 min

    Adani chats with Elizabeth Bonawitz, Professor of Learning Sciences at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Elizabeth’s work focuses on basic theories of learning with the broader goal of informing educational…

  12. 175 - Nicholas Epley: A Little More Social

    · 56 min

    Nick Epley is the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He studies social cognition—how thinking people think about other…

  13. 174 - Amit Goldenberg: Collective Emotions and Social Media (REAIR)

    · 48 min

    In this reair episode from 2023, Eric chats with Amit Goldenberg, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Amit studies emotions in social interactions, for example in political…

  14. 173 - Juliana Schroeder: Mistakenly Seeking Solitude (REAIR)

    · 47 min

    In this reair episode, Eric chats with Juliana Schroeder, Associate Professor in the Management of Organizations at Berkeley Haas. She studies how people think about the minds of other people, and how they are often…

  15. 172 - Julia Chatain: Embodied Learning and Educational Technology in Mathematics and Beyond (REAIR)

    · 38 min

    Adani chats with Dr. Julia Chatain, Senior Scientist at the Singapore-ETH Centre of ETH Zürich. Julia is a computer scientist and learning scientist responsible for building a new research program, “Future Embodied…

  16. 171 - Casey Kenyon Brown: Can Your Relationships Make You Depressed? (REAIR)

    · 40 min

    This week, Enna chats with Dr. Casey Kenyon Brown, Professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. She has received numerous honors and awards,…

  17. 170 - Marginalia Episode: Erica Bailey on Authenticity (REAIR)

    · 50 min

    Marginalia Episodes are in collaboration with Marginalia Science! Marginalia Science is a community committed to promoting the work of scholars who are traditionally underrepresented in academia. In each Marginalia…

  18. 169 - Tamar Kushnir: The Power of Imagination

    · 47 min

    Adani chats with Tamar Kushnir, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Tamar’s research spans pretty much everything you can imagine: Cognitive development, causal learning, social cognition,…

  19. 168 - Robin Dunbar: How Many People Can You Be Friends With? (REAIR)

    · 1 h 13 min

    In this re-air episode from 2022, Eric chats with Robin Dunbar, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Oxford. Robin has famously studied the evolution of the human brain, arguing that our brain developed to…

  20. 167 - Nicky Sullivan: Bridging the Gap Between Academic Research and Real-World Impact

    · 38 min

    Anjie chats with Dr. Nicky Sullivan, senior researcher at Impact Justice, a national non-profit innovation and research center focused on transforming the U.S. criminal justice system. Dr. Sullivan received his PhD…

  21. 166 - Steve Rathje: The Psychology of Virality

    · 1 h 06 min

    Su chats with Dr. Steve Rathje. Dr. Rathje is an incoming Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an NSF and AXA postdoctoral fellow at…

  22. 165 – Ying Wong: From Cultural Psychology to Global Business

    · 30 min

    Anjie chats with Dr. Ying Wong, founder and CEO of B.peachy and former cultural psychologist. Ying received her PhD in Psychology from Stanford in 2007, where she studied shame and guilt through a cultural lens. After…

  23. 164 - Susan Engel: Do We Become Less Curious As We Grow Older?

    · 49 min

    Adani chats with Dr. Susan Engel, a Senior Lecturer and Senior Faculty Fellow in Psychology at Williams College. Susan’s research spans many areas, including the development of curiosity and invention, children’s…

  24. 163 - Roger Levy: The Science of Language in the Era of AI

    · 41 min · Episode 163

    Su chats with Dr. Roger Levy. Dr. Levy is a Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where he directs the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory. His research focuses on theoretical and…

  25. 162 - Adam Benforado: How prioritizing kids benefits us all

    · 51 min

    In today’s episode, Adani chats with Adam Benforado, a lawyer, writer, and professor at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law. Adam’s research, teaching, and advocacy are focused on children’s rights and criminal…

  26. 161 - Yuan Chang (YC) Leong: Emotional arousal & dynamic brain connectivity

    · 41 min · Episode 161

    Su chats with Dr. Yuan Chang (YC) Leong. YC is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is the director of Computational Affective and Social Neuroscience Lab, which is a part of the…

  27. 160 - Jennifer Hu: From Human Minds to Artificial Minds

    · 35 min

    Su chats with Dr. Jennifer Hu. Jenn is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, directing the Group for Language and Intelligence. Her research examines the…

  28. 159 - Dawn Finzi: From Vision Neuroscience to ML Engineering (Psychologist in the Wild Series)

    · 26 min

    Elizabeth chats with Dr. Dawn Finzi, a Machine Learning engineer on the Perception team at Zoox, and a recent alumni of our very own Stanford’s Department of Psychology, as a part of our new Psychologist in the Wild…

  29. 158 - David Almeida: Can Stress Be Good For You?

    · 44 min

    Jane chats with Dr. David Almeida, a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State. He is the Principal Investigator of the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE), the largest longitudinal diary…

  30. 157 - Diyi Yang: Socially Aware Large Language Models

    · 43 min

    In this episode, Su chats with Diyi Yang, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, affiliated with the Stanford NLP Group, Stanford Human Computer Interaction Group, Stanford AI…

  31. 156 - Katy Milkman: The Art and Science of Lasting Behavior Change

    · 51 min

    This week, Misha chats with Katy Milkman, the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and former president of the Society…

  32. 155 - Julian Jara Ettinger: How we understand other minds

    · 39 min

    This week, Misha chats with Julian Jara-Ettinger, Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Yale University. Julian directs the Computational Social Cognition Lab, which aims to reveal the fundamental…

  33. 154 - Judith Fan: The wonders of playing with blocks (REAIR)

    · 38 min

    In this re-air episode from summer 2021 (one of our first!), Anjie chats with Judy Fan, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Judy’s research is at the intersection of computational neuroscience,…

  34. 153 - Mike North: Too old, too young—Is ageism the last acceptable bias?

    · 1 h 04 min

    This week, Enna chats with Dr. Mike North, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, at NYU Stern School of Business and founding director of the AGE Initiative. Mike’s research focuses on the challenges…

  35. 152 - Laura Schulz: The journey of becoming a cognitive scientist and what babies and children have taught us about their cognition (REAIR)

    · 1 h 00 min

    Bella chats with professor Laura Schulz. Laura is a Professor of Cognitive Sciences in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT. She is also the director and principal investigator of the Early Childhood…

  36. 151 - Robert Hawkins: Language, Collaboration, and Social Reasoning

    · 50 min

    This week, Misha chats with Robert Hawkins, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Robert directs the Social Interaction Lab where he studies the cognitive mechanisms that enable human communication…

  37. 150 - Kendrick Kay: Large-scale fMRI Datasets and What to Consider

    · 38 min · Episode 150

    In this episode, Elizabeth chats with Dr. Kendrick Kay, an Associate Professor in Radiology at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He directs the Computational Visual Neuroscience Laboratory, and aims to understand…

  38. 149 - Jenna Wells: How Micro-Moments of Connection Shape Health and Happiness

    · 53 min

    This week, Enna chats with Dr. Jenna Wells, a professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University. Jenna’s research examines how emotion in close relationships contributes to mental and physical health over…

  39. 148 - Dorsa Amir: How Culture Shapes Cognition

    · 36 min

    Anjie chats with Dr. Dorsa Amir, an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. She directs the Mind and Culture Lab, where she studies how culture shapes the developing mind. In this…

  40. 147 - Geoff Hinton & Jay McClelland: Two AI Pioneers in Conversation

    · 48 min

    Eric chats with 2024 Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton and Stanford Professor Jay McClelland, two pioneers who have spent nearly half a century laying the groundwork for modern-day AI, advancing research on neural…

  41. 146 - Alex Shaw: The Price of Neutrality

    · 51 min

    This week, Misha chats with Dr. Alex Shaw, Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's Department of Psychology. His research explores how children and adults navigate the complex world of social behavior, with…

  42. 145 - Marginalia Episode: Erica Bailey on Authenticity

    · 50 min

    Marginalia Episode is a collaboration between the Stanford Psychology Podcast and Marginalia Science. Marginalia Science is a community committed to promoting work of scholars who are traditionally underrepresented in…

  43. 144 - Sandra Matz: AI, Social Media, And Data Privacy

    · 54 min

    Eric chats with Sandra Matz, Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. Sandra is a renowned computational social scientist, using AI and big data to study human behavior and preferences. Sandra was…

  44. 143 - Casey Kenyon Brown: Can Your Relationships Make You Depressed?

    · 40 min

    This week, Enna chats with Dr. Casey Kenyon Brown, Professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. She has received numerous honors and awards,…

  45. 142 - Meet the Hosts: Kate Petrova

    · 51 min

    Adani chats with Kate Petrova, one of the first hosts of the Stanford Psychology Podcast and a fourth-year Ph.D. student in psychology at Stanford University. In this special episode from our Meet the Host series, Kate…

  46. 141 - Michael Schwalbe and Geoff Cohen: When Politics Trumps Truths

    · 37 min · Explicit

    Anjie chats with Dr. Michael Schwalbe and Dr. Geoff Cohen. Michael is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, from which he also received his PhD in social psychology. Geoff is a Professor of Psychology and the…

  47. 140 - Julia Chatain: Embodied Learning and Educational Technology in Mathematics and Beyond

    · 38 min

    Adani chats with Dr. Julia Chatain, Senior Scientist at the Singapore-ETH Centre of ETH Zürich. Julia is a computer scientist and learning scientist responsible for building a new research program, “Future Embodied…

  48. 139 - Susan Carey: Becoming a Cognitive Scientist

    · 43 min

    Anjie chats with Dr. Susan Carey. Susan is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and one of the most influential figures in the field of developmental psychology. Her groundbreaking research focuses…

  49. 138 - Hal Hershfield: Connecting with Your Future Self for a Better Tomorrow

    · 38 min

    This week, Enna chats with Dr. Hal Hershfield, Professor of Marketing, Behavioral Decision Making, and Psychology at UCLA Anderson School of Management. In 2017, Hal was recognized as a 40 under 40 best business school…

  50. 137 - Kelsey Lucca: Unpacking the Development of Exploration and Exploitation

    · 37 min

    Anjie chats with Dr. Kelsey Lucca. Kelsey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. She directs the Emerging Minds Lab, where she leads her team to investigate cognitive…

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