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Apple Podcasts · United States · Nov 5, 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 Love Really Works

Hidden Brain · 1 h 30 min

#2

US Midterm SHOCK: What Happens to UFO Disclosure NOW?

That UFO Podcast · 28 min

#3

The Story of Stories

Hidden Brain · 1 h 30 min

#4

SYSK TRENDING - Why Perfectionism Isn’t Perfect

Something You Should Know · 21 min

#5

The Superforecasters: With Guests Leon Panetta, Peter Bergen & Barbara Mellers (Rebroadcast)

Choiceology with Katy Milkman · 39 min

#6

The Achaemenid Persian Empire 👑🏛️ | The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 5 h 11 min

#7

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

Hidden Brain · 1 h 30 min

#8

The Most Abused Logical Fallacies

Skeptoid · 17 min

#9

Incident 88

Somewhere in the Skies · 1 h 01 min

#10

Why Am I Unhappy?

Hidden Brain · 1 h 33 min

#11

The Magic of “Once Upon a Time” & The Power of Collective Intelligence

Something You Should Know · 51 min

#12

When Staying Home Works: Understanding School Refusal and Chronic Absenteeism

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria · 45 min

New in Social Sciences

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

#17 newDreaming with Dr. Michael LennoxDreaming with Dr. Michael Lennox #31 newReclaiming The RecordReclaiming The Record #70 newSave the World with Jay FriedenbergSave the World with Jay Friedenberg

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

Pursuit of the Paranormal

Ash and Greg

— 5

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▲ 1 6

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

▼ 1 7

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▲ 1 8

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

Charles Schwab

▼ 1 9

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

— 10

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

— 11

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

▲ 2 12

Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

— 13

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

▼ 2 14

That UFO Podcast

That UFO Podcast

▲ 1 15

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

▼ 1 16

The Couples Therapist Couch

Shane Birkel

— 17

Dreaming with Dr. Michael Lennox

Michael Lennox

▲ 12 18

GraveYard Tales

Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph

— 19

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

▲ 3 20

Navigating Neuropsychology

John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro

— 21

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

▼ 4 22

Behavior Bitches

Study Notes ABA, LLC

▼ 1 23

The Sociology of Everything Podcast

Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)

▲ 8 24

The Social Work Podcast

Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW

▼ 1 25

NASW Social Work Talks

National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

▲ 2 26

Inquiry with Kelly Chase

Kelly Chase

▼ 7 27

UCLA Housing Voice

UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

▼ 3 28

The TBRI Podcast

Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development TCU

▲ 6 29

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

▼ 4 30

New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

▼ 2 31

Reclaiming The Record

Kristina Miller

NEW 32

PsychCrunch

The British Psychological Society Research Digest

▲ 35 33

Quantitude

Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran

▼ 7 34

Dark Side Of Psychology

Dr. Elio Martino

▼ 2 35

ABA Inside Track

ABA Inside Track

▼ 5 36

Inner Propaganda with Owen Fitzpatrick

Owen Fitzpatrick

▲ 2 37

DeltaPi | دلتاپی

Farzad Fakhrizadeh

▼ 2 38

Statistics Made Simple

Brad R. Fulton, PhD

▲ 13 39

Teamcast

Mission Critical Team Institute

▲ 11 40

The Human Progress Podcast

HumanProgress.org

▲ 40 41

Reverse Psychology

Reverse PsychCast

▲ 19 42

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

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

▼ 5 43

Jung Chicago Radio

C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago

▼ 2 44

The Pie: An Economics Podcast

Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago

▲ 15 45

Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

Sucheta Kamath

▲ 16 46

The Thoughtful Counselor

The Thoughful Counselor Team

▼ 13 47

One in Ten

National Children's Alliance

▲ 69 48

Brookings Podcast on Economic Activity

The Brookings Institution

▼ 12 49

Messy Social Work

Rich and Tim

▲ 92 50

The Criminology Academy

Jose Sanchez and Jenn Tostlebe

▼ 1

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