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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 10, 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

Lenval Logan: “We’ve Seen Better” | Grusch, UAP Footage & The Phenom App

That UFO Podcast · 1 h 38 min

#3

The Tayos Caves Mystery Part 1

Mysterious Universe · 1 h 12 min

#4

How to Have Great Conversations & The Surprising Truth About Optimism

Something You Should Know · 47 min

#5

Fairfield County Infirmary

GraveYard Tales · 1 h 27 min

#6

Why Did So Many Ancient Civilizations Collapse at the Same Time? 🏺🌍 | The Bronze Age Collapse Explained | Boring History for Sleep

Boring History for Sleep · 3 h 32 min

#7

The Black Seas of Infinity

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse · 58 min

#8

How to Breathe Away Anxiety

The Science of Happiness · 24 min

#9

How to Make a Difference: Part 2

Hidden Brain · 49 min

#10

How to Make a Difference: Part 1

Hidden Brain · 48 min

#11

Why Conversations Go Wrong

Hidden Brain · 1 h 38 min

#12

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

Choiceology with Katy Milkman · 32 min

New in Social Sciences

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

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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

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Agoric Media

— 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

— 8

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

— 9

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD

— 10

The Psychology Podcast

Scott Barry Kaufman

— 11

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

▲ 6 12

GraveYard Tales

Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph

▲ 3 13

People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

▼ 2 14

Somewhere in the Skies

SpectreVision Radio

— 15

Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology

▲ 1 16

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

▼ 4 17

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

▼ 4 18

Behavior Bitches

Study Notes ABA, LLC

▲ 9 19

The Couples Therapist Couch

Shane Birkel

▲ 1 20

Navigating Neuropsychology

John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro

▲ 3 21

The Social Work Podcast

Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW

— 22

NASW Social Work Talks

National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

▼ 3 23

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

▲ 1 24

The Thoughtful Counselor

The Thoughful Counselor Team

▼ 6 25

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Spencer Greenberg

▲ 3 26

New Books in Critical Theory

Marshall Poe

▼ 4 27

The TBRI Podcast

Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development TCU

▲ 2 28

Inquiry with Kelly Chase

Kelly Chase

▼ 2 29

Shot At Love

Kerry Brett

▲ 31 30

ABA Inside Track

ABA Inside Track

— 31

kikapekiskwewin

Dr Josie Auger

▼ 6 32

Rad N Bad Podcast

Sean Yocum and Michael Carrero from Hickory Learning Group

— 33

The Africa Urban Lab Podcast

Kurtis Lockhart

▼ 2 34

VoxDev Development Economics

VoxDev.org

▲ 9 35

Scott Carney Investigates

Scott Carney

▲ 56 36

بودكاست آن

Arabcast

▲ 4 37

Blurry Photos

David Flora

▼ 3 38

The Pie: An Economics Podcast

Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago

▲ 3 39

Brookings Podcast on Economic Activity

The Brookings Institution

▲ 14 40

The Perception & Action Podcast

Rob Gray

▼ 1 41

UCLA Housing Voice

UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

▼ 8 42

Jung Chicago Radio

C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago

▲ 26 43

Statistics Made Simple

Brad R. Fulton, PhD

▲ 16 44

Ideas in Development

Ideas in Development

▲ 17 45

DeltaPi | دلتاپی

Farzad Fakhrizadeh

▲ 91 46

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

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

▲ 31 47

Sidebar with Attorney Ryan Sandstrom

Ryan Sandstrom

NEW 48

The Marginal Revolution Podcast

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

▲ 30 49

New Books in Sociology

New Books Network

▲ 20 50

The Death Studies Podcast

The Death Studies Podcast

▲ 69

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