Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 28, 2026

Best Social Sciences Podcasts

The top 100 Social Sciences shows on the Apple Podcasts chart (US), plus the episodes trending right now.

Trending Social Sciences episodes

The episodes everyone is playing today. Tap to listen.

#1

How to Make a Difference: Part 1

Hidden Brain · 48 min

#2

Why Pets Behave So Strangely & The Surprising Rhythm of Your Brain - SYSK Choice

Something You Should Know · 49 min

#3

Why Conversations Go Wrong

Hidden Brain · 1 h 38 min

#4

Doomer Friday: “Something Else Is Running the Show” | Dylan Borland, Bigelow & The Tonopah Mystery

That UFO Podcast · 2 h 38 min

#5

The Book of Enoch Explained 📜👼 | Fallen Angels, Giants, and Visions of Heaven | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 50 min

#6

Blowing Up Your Life

Hidden Brain · 1 h 26 min

#7

A Pension Promise Only Works When Politics Honors It

The Answer Is Transaction Costs · 59 min

#8

How Optimism Works in Tough Times & The Curious Story of Breakfast Cereal

Something You Should Know · 48 min

#9

Disclosure Exposure: The Psychological & Spiritual Reality of UFO Contact with Daniel Noah

Inquiry with Kelly Chase · 1 h 11 min

#10

The Skill Trap | Outsourcing Ourselves

Mysterious Universe · 1 h 19 min

#11

How Smell Shapes Memory

The Science of Happiness · 26 min

#12

The Black Seas of Infinity

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse · 58 min

New in Social Sciences

Brand new shows that entered this chart within two weeks of launch.

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

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2

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

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3

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

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4

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

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5

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

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6

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

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7

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

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8

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

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9

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

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10

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

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11

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

▲ 1
12

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

▼ 1
13

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

▲ 1
14

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

▲ 1
15

GraveYard Tales

Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph

▲ 3
16

The Psychology Podcast

Scott Barry Kaufman

▼ 3
17

Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

▼ 1
18

Behavior Bitches

Study Notes ABA, LLC

▲ 1
19

Inquiry with Kelly Chase

Kelly Chase

▼ 2
20

New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

▲ 1
21

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

▲ 7
22

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

▼ 2
23

Navigating Neuropsychology

John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro

▼ 1
24

The Social Work Podcast

Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW

▼ 1
25

The Thoughtful Counselor

The Thoughful Counselor Team

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26

The Couples Therapist Couch

Shane Birkel

▼ 2
27

NASW Social Work Talks

National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

▲ 4
28

The Sociology of Everything Podcast

Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)

▲ 12
29

PsychCrunch

The British Psychological Society Research Digest

▼ 2
30

The Answer Is Transaction Costs

Michael Munger

▲ 137
31

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

▼ 5
32

The Litigation Psychology Podcast

Courtroom Sciences

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33

Blurry Photos

David Flora

▲ 4
34

Scott Carney Investigates

Scott Carney

▲ 5
35

The TBRI Podcast

Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development TCU

▼ 6
36

UCLA Housing Voice

UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

▼ 1
37

ABA Inside Track

ABA Inside Track

▼ 7
38

The Bulletproof Musician

Noa Kageyama

▲ 3
39

VoxTalks Economics

VoxTalks

▲ 5
40

Two Guys on Your Head

KUT & KUTX Studios, Dr. Art Markman & Dr. Bob Duke

▼ 7
41

The Skeptic Podcast

The Skeptic

▲ 1
42

Templeton Ideas Podcast

John Templeton Foundation

▼ 8
43

Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

Sucheta Kamath

▲ 2
44

The Skeptic Zone

Richard Saunders

▲ 120
45

Quantitude

Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran

▼ 7
46

DeltaPi | دلتاپی

Farzad Fakhrizadeh

▼ 10
47

Podcast de Juan Ramón Rallo

Juan Ramón Rallo

▲ 6
48

The Perception & Action Podcast

Rob Gray

▲ 1
49

The Pie: An Economics Podcast

Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago

▲ 2
50

Inquiring Minds

Indre Viskontas

▲ 108

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