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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 7, 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

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Hidden Brain · 1 h 32 min

#2

Grusch’s Rogan Fallout & Jake Barber’s UFO Mothership Claims

That UFO Podcast · 2 h 12 min

#3

How to Make a Difference: Part 2

Hidden Brain · 49 min

#4

SYSK TRENDING -The Intriguing Mysteries of the Universe

Something You Should Know · 26 min

#5

Better Off Later: Our Preference for Improving Sequences (With George Loewenstein)

Choiceology with Katy Milkman · 32 min

#6

Hunting the Pictish Beast

Skeptoid · 14 min

#7

What They Don’t Teach You in School About the American Civil War 🇺🇸⚔️ | The Untold Story | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 4 h 15 min

#8

How to Make a Difference: Part 1

Hidden Brain · 48 min

#9

When to Speak Up and When to Stay Quiet & Why Smart Investors Do Crazy Things

Something You Should Know · 50 min

#10

Why Conversations Go Wrong

Hidden Brain · 1 h 38 min

#11

The Black Seas of Infinity

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse · 58 min

#12

250 British Police Officers Break Their Silence on UFO Encounters | Inspector Roy Teague

Somewhere in the Skies · 1 h 06 min

New in Social Sciences

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

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The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

— 2

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

— 3

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

▲ 1 4

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 1 5

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

— 6

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

— 7

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▲ 3 8

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▼ 1 9

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▼ 1 10

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

▼ 1 11

The Psychology Podcast

Scott Barry Kaufman

— 12

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

— 13

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

▲ 4 14

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

— 15

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

▼ 2 16

Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

▼ 1 17

GraveYard Tales

Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph

▼ 1 18

kikapekiskwewin

Dr Josie Auger

▲ 163 19

NASW Social Work Talks

National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

▼ 1 20

Navigating Neuropsychology

John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro

▼ 1 21

The Thoughtful Counselor

The Thoughful Counselor Team

▲ 6 22

Inquiry with Kelly Chase

Kelly Chase

▲ 1 23

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

▲ 2 24

The Couples Therapist Couch

Shane Birkel

▼ 4 25

New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

▼ 4 26

Behavior Bitches

Study Notes ABA, LLC

▼ 2 27

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

▲ 4 28

The Social Work Podcast

Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW

▼ 6 29

The Pie: An Economics Podcast

Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago

— 30

The TBRI Podcast

Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development TCU

▼ 4 31

Two Psychologists Four Beers

Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett

▲ 11 32

Apocalyptic Optimist Podcast

Pique Action

NEW 33

ABA Inside Track

ABA Inside Track

▲ 14 34

PsychCrunch

The British Psychological Society Research Digest

▲ 10 35

Jung Chicago Radio

C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago

▼ 5 36

EPPP Study Podcast-

Circle Of Insight Productions

▲ 10 37

Anew Narrative

Sam Zagar

▼ 4 38

New Books in Public Policy

New Books Network

▲ 7 39

The Perception & Action Podcast

Rob Gray

▼ 1 40

The Science of Personality Podcast

Hogan Assessments

▲ 30 41

Talks On Psychoanalysis

International Psychoanalytical Association

▲ 46 42

Brookings Podcast on Economic Activity

The Brookings Institution

▼ 10 43

Dark Side Of Psychology

Dr. Elio Martino

▼ 15 44

Quantitude

Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran

▼ 9 45

UCLA Housing Voice

UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

▲ 6 46

Templeton Ideas Podcast

John Templeton Foundation

▼ 6 47

Rad N Bad Podcast

Sean Yocum and Michael Carrero from Hickory Learning Group

▲ 147 48

The Bulletproof Musician

Noa Kageyama

▼ 14 49

SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

SAPIENS

▼ 12 50

Messy Social Work

Rich and Tim

▲ 13

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