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Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 8, 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

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#1

Blowing Up Your Life

Hidden Brain · 1 h 26 min

#2

The Commuter's Paradox: Why We Misjudge Social Connection (With Nick Epley)

Choiceology with Katy Milkman · 34 min

#3

The Things We Don't Say

Hidden Brain · 50 min

#4

The Nocebo Effect: Placebo’s Evil Twin & Weird Facts You Never Knew

Something You Should Know · 48 min

#5

Alexander Hamilton — The Fighting Founding Father Who Built America 🇺🇸⚔️ | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 21 min

#6

The Cote Photo: The Clearest UFO Image Ever Captured? | Adam Pillon & Megan Woomer

Somewhere in the Skies · 1 h 19 min

#7

The Scandalous Lives of Truman Capote’s Swans 🦢🍸 | New York’s Most Glamorous Women | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 11 min

#8

What Art Does For Your Brain

Hidden Brain · 49 min

#9

Diana Pasulka: The Others, UFOs, AI, Death & the Vatican

That UFO Podcast · 1 h 59 min

#10

How to Be A Better Partner

Hidden Brain · 1 h 26 min

#11

Why Secrets Are So Hard to Keep & The Curious Quirks of Language - SYSK Choice

Something You Should Know · 48 min

#12

The Black Seas of Infinity

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse · 58 min

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

▲ 1 5

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 1 6

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

— 7

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

— 8

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

— 9

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

▲ 4 10

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▲ 1 11

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

▼ 2 12

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

▲ 2 13

Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews

Mysterious Radio

▼ 1 14

GraveYard Tales

Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph

▼ 4 15

The Psychology Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

▲ 1 16

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

▲ 1 17

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

▼ 2 18

Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

— 19

The Social Work Podcast

Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW

▲ 6 20

New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

▼ 1 21

Behavior Bitches

Study Notes ABA, LLC

▼ 1 22

The Couples Therapist Couch

Shane Birkel

▲ 1 23

Navigating Neuropsychology

John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro

▼ 1 24

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

▼ 3 25

The Marginal Revolution Podcast

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

▼ 1 26

The Bulletproof Musician

Noa Kageyama

— 27

The Thoughtful Counselor

The Thoughful Counselor Team

▲ 14 28

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

▲ 1 29

The Pie: An Economics Podcast

Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago

▲ 2 30

دغدغه ایران

محمد فاضلی

▲ 6 31

Inquiry with Kelly Chase

Kelly Chase

▼ 4 32

Two Guys on Your Head

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

▼ 2 33

Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

Sucheta Kamath

▲ 35 34

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

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

▼ 6 35

The Sociology of Everything Podcast

Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)

▲ 18 36

Behavioral Grooves Podcast

Kurt Nelson, PhD and Tim Houlihan

▲ 4 37

Dark Side Of Psychology

Dr. Elio Martino

▼ 5 38

NASW Social Work Talks

National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

▲ 11 39

Blurry Photos

David Flora

▼ 5 40

Pursuit of the Paranormal

Ash and Greg

▼ 5 41

ABA Inside Track

ABA Inside Track

▼ 8 42

Cultures of Energy

Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe

▲ 80 43

The Perception & Action Podcast

Rob Gray

▼ 4 44

New Books in Economics

Marshall Poe

▲ 23 45

New Books in Sociology

New Books Network

▲ 45 46

New Books in Anthropology

New Books Network

▼ 8 47

Talks On Psychoanalysis

International Psychoanalytical Association

▲ 54 48

Quantitude

Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran

▼ 11 49

New Books in Political Science

New Books Network

▲ 13 50

The Skeptic Zone

Richard Saunders

▼ 8

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