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Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 15, 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

Why Conversations Go Wrong

Hidden Brain · 1 h 38 min

#2

Blowing Up Your Life

Hidden Brain · 1 h 26 min

#3

A Smarter Way to Make Big Life Changes & The Strange Rise of the House Cat

Something You Should Know · 49 min

#4

Karin Austin: Abduction, Contact & the Experience That Changed Everything | Part 1

That UFO Podcast · 1 h 24 min

#5

The Greatest Stories of the Ancient World 🏛️⚔️ | Kings, Empires, Betrayal & Forbidden Love | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 51 min

#6

348 - The Dress - Decoder Ring

You Are Not So Smart · 43 min

#7

The Things We Don't Say

Hidden Brain · 50 min

#8

Not Alone: 10 Strange Alien Encounters

Somewhere in the Skies · 41 min

#9

How to Protect Your Brain as You Age

The Science of Happiness · 25 min

#10

The Secret Life of Gases & Why We Get Hooked - SYSK Choice

Something You Should Know · 49 min

#11

Coal, Steam, and the Industrial Revolution ⚙️🔥 | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 20 min

#12

Tales From Aztlantis and "How Conspiracy Theories Undermine Ethnic Studies!"

Skeptoid · 43 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

— 4

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

— 5

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

— 6

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

— 7

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

— 8

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

— 9

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

▲ 1 10

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▼ 1 11

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

▲ 4 12

The Psychology Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 5 13

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

— 14

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

— 15

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

▼ 3 16

GraveYard Tales

Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph

▼ 5 17

Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

▲ 3 18

DeltaPi | دلتاپی

Farzad Fakhrizadeh

▼ 2 19

Jung in the World

Patricia Martin

▼ 1 20

The Couples Therapist Couch

Shane Birkel

▲ 4 21

Behavior Bitches

Study Notes ABA, LLC

▲ 1 22

Navigating Neuropsychology

John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro

▼ 1 23

The Social Work Podcast

Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW

▼ 4 24

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

▲ 4 25

NASW Social Work Talks

National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

▲ 1 26

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

▼ 1 27

New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

▼ 4 28

The Bulletproof Musician

Noa Kageyama

▼ 1 29

UCLA Housing Voice

UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

▲ 16 30

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

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

— 31

Quantitude

Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran

▲ 5 32

Dark Side Of Psychology

Dr. Elio Martino

▼ 1 33

ABA Inside Track

ABA Inside Track

▲ 14 34

The Thoughtful Counselor

The Thoughful Counselor Team

— 35

Inquiry with Kelly Chase

Kelly Chase

▼ 2 36

The Sociology of Everything Podcast

Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)

▲ 7 37

New Books in Anthropology

New Books Network

▲ 3 38

Blurry Photos

David Flora

▼ 9 39

The Perception & Action Podcast

Rob Gray

▼ 2 40

Law of Attraction Tribe Podcast: Manifestation hacks and tips

Stephanie Keith

▲ 61 41

The TBRI Podcast

Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development TCU

▼ 6 42

Templeton Ideas Podcast

John Templeton Foundation

▼ 10 43

ABA on Tap

Mike Rubio, BCBA & Dan Lowery, BCBA (co-Hosts) & Suzanne Juzwik, BCBA (Producer)

▲ 127 44

Significantly Weird

Christine Keelin

NEW 45

Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

Sucheta Kamath

▲ 5 46

Two Guys on Your Head

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

▼ 8 47

EPPP Study Podcast-

Circle Of Insight Productions

▲ 17 48

SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

SAPIENS

▲ 29 49

New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

New Books Network

▲ 104 50

Experimental History

Adam Mastroianni

▲ 4

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