Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 27, 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

How to Make a Difference: Part 1

Hidden Brain · 48 min

#2

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

That UFO Podcast · 2 h 38 min

#3

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

Something You Should Know · 49 min

#4

Why Conversations Go Wrong

Hidden Brain · 1 h 38 min

#5

Cape Verde 🇨🇻🌊 | The Strange Atlantic Paradise You’ve Never Heard Of | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 4 h 18 min

#6

The Skill Trap | Outsourcing Ourselves

Mysterious Universe · 1 h 19 min

#7

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

Inquiry with Kelly Chase · 1 h 11 min

#8

Blowing Up Your Life

Hidden Brain · 1 h 26 min

#9

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

Something You Should Know · 48 min

#10

The Disclosure Dilemma: Oversharing (With Leslie John)

Choiceology with Katy Milkman · 31 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

▲ 1
4

Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life

Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor

▼ 1
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

▲ 2
8

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

▼ 1
9

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

▲ 1
10

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

▼ 2
11

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

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12

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

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13

The Psychology Podcast

Scott Barry Kaufman

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14

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

▲ 1
15

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

▲ 2
16

Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

▼ 2
17

Inquiry with Kelly Chase

Kelly Chase

▼ 1
18

GraveYard Tales

Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph

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19

Behavior Bitches

Study Notes ABA, LLC

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20

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

▲ 1
21

New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

▲ 2
22

Navigating Neuropsychology

John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro

▼ 2
23

The Social Work Podcast

Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW

▼ 1
24

The Couples Therapist Couch

Shane Birkel

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25

The Thoughtful Counselor

The Thoughful Counselor Team

▲ 1
26

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

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

▲ 1
27

PsychCrunch

The British Psychological Society Research Digest

▼ 2
28

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

▲ 1
29

The TBRI Podcast

Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development TCU

▲ 3
30

ABA Inside Track

ABA Inside Track

▲ 1
31

NASW Social Work Talks

National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

▼ 3
32

The Litigation Psychology Podcast

Courtroom Sciences

▲ 20
33

Two Guys on Your Head

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

▲ 10
34

Templeton Ideas Podcast

John Templeton Foundation

▼ 4
35

UCLA Housing Voice

UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

▲ 2
36

DeltaPi | دلتاپی

Farzad Fakhrizadeh

▼ 2
37

Blurry Photos

David Flora

▲ 10
38

Quantitude

Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran

▲ 3
39

Scott Carney Investigates

Scott Carney

▲ 6
40

The Sociology of Everything Podcast

Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)

▼ 5
41

The Bulletproof Musician

Noa Kageyama

▲ 14
42

The Skeptic Podcast

The Skeptic

▲ 19
43

Dark Side Of Psychology

Dr. Elio Martino

▼ 7
44

VoxTalks Economics

VoxTalks

▲ 18
45

Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

Sucheta Kamath

▲ 8
46

Hidden Brain

fertr

▼ 4
47

Anew Narrative

Sam Zagar

▲ 1
48

EPPP Study Podcast-

Circle Of Insight Productions

▼ 9
49

The Perception & Action Podcast

Rob Gray

▼ 5
50

Influence Anyone

Howie Chan, Influence Strategist @ The Behavioring Company

▼ 17

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