Social Science Bites

Alex Edmans on Confirmation Bias

How hard do we fight against information that runs counter to what we already think? While...

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Alison Gopnik on Care

Alison Gopnik on Care

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Tejendra Pherali on Education and Conflict

Consider some of the conflicts bubbling or boiling in the world today, and then plot where...

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Safiya Noble on Search Engines

The work of human hands retains evidence of the humans who created the works. While this might...

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Dimitris MixSes M

Dimitris MixSes M

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Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 5: A Social Science Bites Retrospective

At the end of every interview that host David Edmonds conducts for the Social Science Bites...

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Deborah Small on Charitable Giving

Is giving to a charitable cause essentially equivalent to any other economic decision made by a...

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Hal Hershfield on How We Perceive Our Future Selves

On his institutional web homepage at the University of California-Los Angeles’s Anderson...

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Melissa Kearney on Marriage and Children

A common trope in America depicts a traditional family of a married husband and wife and their...

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Raffaella Sadun on Effective Management

While it seems intuitively obvious that good management is important to the success of an...

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• 8 meses

Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight

“We have been evolving into a species that is super-cooperative: we work together with...

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Heaven Crawley on International Migration

In the Global North, media and political depictions of migration tend to be relentless images...

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Shinobu Kitayama on Cultural Differences in Psychology

In the 1970s and early 1980s, when Shinobu Kitayama was studying psychology at Kyoto University,...

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Petter Johansson on Choice Blindness

Petter Johansson on Choice Blindness

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Ayelet Fishbach on Goals and Motivation

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,” the poet Robert Browning once opined, “or...

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Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics and Educational Attainment

In this Social Science Bites podcast, interviewer David Edmonds asks psychologist Kathryn Paige...

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David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect

In the most innocent interpretation, suggesting someone should ‘do their own research’ is a...

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Claudia Goldin on the Gender Pay Gap

Historically and into the present day, female workers overall make less than men. Looking at...

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Will Hutton on the State of Social Science

Political economist and journalist Will Hutton, author of the influential 1995 book The State...

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Batja Mesquita on Culture and Emotion

There’s the always charming notion that “deep down we’re all the same,” suggesting all of...

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